In the past 2 years, we have hosted this track and invite several key speakers to share how to make your own ICs, processors and development boards. This year, we are going to extend our goal even further.

We are a group of partners who love edge intelligence and tiny machine learning. Regardless of the type of hardware or algorithm, as long as AI applications can be run on batteries without network connection, they are within the scope of community discussion. Everyone is welcome to join.

Open Source RPA Taiwan! This community is dedicated to promoting open-source, free, user-friendly RPA tools with a Chinese interface. We will share various RPA application cases from different domains and regularly organize technical meetups, online live sharing sessions, and invite domestic and international experts and authorities in the RPA field to give lectures and presentations. We have just started and hope to engage in extensive exchanges and learning by participating in annual conferences and interacting with other communities.

g0v is a citizen-led civic tech community initiated in Taiwan. It is centered around information transparency, open source, and collaboration, aiming to engage grassroots participation in projects related to public affairs. The g0v Hackathon organizing team, also known as the “g0v jothon,” is a working group within the g0v community responsible for organizing the bi-monthly g0v Hackathons and Infrastructure Hackathons. Since 2012, g0v jothon have been assisting the community in organizing hackathons, and in 2014, they officially formed the “g0v jothon.” In 2016, they initiated the Community Infrastructure Project and the Civic Tech Innovation Grant. In 2020, they started the “Sch001” project with the aim of promoting digital citizenship education.

Our association was founded in 2001 with the goal of promoting the use and ideology of free and open-source software. In the past, we have assisted the government in adopting the ODF standard and facilitated the inclusion of free software in national skill certification. In recent years, in addition to free software, we have placed more emphasis on promoting and educating the public on open standards, such as ODF, SVG, HL7 FHIR, and actively encourage the use and development of open-source software based on these open standards.
Our association is also a member of the Legislative Yuan’s Open Parliament Committee. We continue to promote the concept of PMPC (Public Money Public Code) and hope that the government will practice this spirit in software construction.

the Open Source Firmware Foundation who have extensive experience organizing in-person and remote conferences like the Open Source Firmware Conference and European coreboot Conference.

Ruby Taiwan was founded in 2008 with a focus on the Ruby programming language and software development. Its main goal is to promote industry exchange and sharing, as well as to enhance the technical depth and breadth of developers.

The VideoLAN project is led by and composed of a team of volunteers who believe in the power of open source to rock the multimedia world. VideoLAN host the popular projects such as VLC Media Player, x264 encoder, dav1d AV1 decoder and other multimedia libraries

Hacking Thursday (H4) and TOSSUG (Taipei Open Source Software User Group) are two communities that hold regular weekly meetups in Taipei.
This time, at our booth in COSCUP, we aim to connect with both familiar faces and new friends, strengthening our community bonds.

The Open Culture Foundation (OCF), is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, founded in 2014 by several members of Taiwan’s open source community. Our main goal is to support local communities advocate the use of open technologies in broader sectors, including open source software, open hardware, and open data. We help government, enterprises, and NGOs better understand the benefits of adopting open source, and promote the importance of open data to the public sphere. We believe that a culture of open collaboration is the foundation for an innovative society, and the engine of a participatory democracy.
Since its establishment, OCF has supported local communities to run large-scale conferences, seminars, and hackathons, as well as collaborate with a number of international offices and multilateral institutions to deepen Taiwan’s connection to the global open culture community. Some of our past collaboration partners include the American Institute in Taiwan, British Office Taipei, Bureau Francais de Taipei, and the World Bank. OCF also has strong connections with the global open source community, and regularly exchanges experiences with civic tech groups worldwide. Our mission is to build bridges between local and global “open” communities, and hope to act as a mediator for open culture.

Hi, We’re group of organizers from multiple open source communities from Korea: Consisted with Ubuntu Korea Community, Openstack Korea Community and C++ Korea this time.

Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association (HKCOTA) is a non-profit tax-exempt organization / charity (Reg.# 91/13580) in Hong Kong founded in 2014. The aim of the HKCOTA is to promote Open Standards, Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Free Culture Works, Open Content and Creative Commons.

MozTW (Mozilla Taiwan Community) is a group of Mozilla fans in Taiwan who work on localizing products, promoting Mozilla, maintaining moztw.org, and operating a physical community/hackerspace “MozTW Space” (https://moztw.space) in Taipei.

Do you want to get started with COSCUP? Do you want to learn more about what volunteers do at COSCUP? Then you must come here and let us introduce it to you!

Taiwan Open Education Development Unit (TOEDU) and UniCourse are both initiated by students, and are contributed by students, educators, open knowledge and open source community participants. With open source project contribution, open data organizing, data exchange, etc., we boost the discussion and communication of different issue and topics related to open education, that education continue to evolve through FLOSS and related concepts.
Taiwan Open Education Development Unit (TOEDU) has founded the CourseAPI project, which integrates more than 10,000 open course resources and create the search engine for them. The platform and API of data are provided to learners, educators, and educational institutions, like installing an electrical socket onto books, let the knowledge be shared as unrestrained and broad as electricity.
UniCourse is a searching platform project for university courses initiated by students from NTNU CSIE. Under the inconvenience of existing course selection tools, we collect and organize the courses from different universities in Taiwan to resolve the inconvenience for students and educators.

Taiwan JVM team is a task-oriented group to advocate JVM related technology. By connected all JVM-related communities, including TWJUG, Kotlin Taiwan User Group, Scala Taiwan, Android Taipei/Android Study Jam, Kotlin Taipei, Clojure Taiwan, GDG, Taiwan Backend Group, our goal is to provide a rich and diverse agenda in COSCUP.

Open Licenses are rules connecting participants from different fields. However, relevant disputes still rise due to the different standpoints. Open Source Legal Network, Taiwan (OSLN.tw) was hence set up to reduce disputes through providing a neutral, objective and semi-public network. Participants from both commercial and community side can share informations about licenses inside the network and discuss how to inteprete FOSS licensing rules. We adapt Chatham House Rule to ensure participants can talk freely in the network without privacy concern.

Under the hood of engine chamber and beneath the cover of shiny facade, system software is what makes your system work. This track is hosted by Taiwan Linux Kernel Hackers and Hsinchu Code Surf.

Laravel Taiwan and Vue Taiwan are both communities founded by members who love the respective technologies, aiming to provide a platform for sharing and exchanging ideas related to Laravel and Vue.js, including topics, projects, techniques, and jobs. In the past two years, the two communities joined forces to hold {Laravel x Vue} Conf Taiwan, inviting experts from various fields to come and join the event, hoping to create a good learning and communication environment for technology enthusiasts. Through the community schedule and booth at this year’s Coscup, we hope to promote and share related technologies.

Founded in 2006, Open Source Hong Kong is a technology organisation & community made up of a group of open source contributors and users, with the aim of promoting the development of the open source community. We will showcase our flagship project, PyCon Hong Kong 2023, at our booth and look forward to meeting you to share the unique features and charm of the open source activities in Hong Kong.

PostgreSQL Taiwan user group.

GDG Taipei (Google Developer Group Taipei) meets on every Wednesday night at Tenlong Coding Space (due to COVID19 pandemic, now we will hold only online virtual events). The typical meeting format is registration and light dinner fare between 7:00 and 7:30pm. The main meeting starts with general announcements at 7:30pm. This is followed by technical presentation(s) and/or demonstration of one or more Google technologies starting from 7:30pm. After talks, extended Q&A and/or more informal networking before everyone heads home. Our meetings will always be free and open to the general public. We will sometimes co-host a joint meeting with local open source group(s).

We are a community of local WordPress developers, designers, content creators, and knowledge sharers in Taiwan.

Cloud Native Computing Taiwan User Group is dedicated to combine community of Cloud Native related projects such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, SDN. We held meetups regularly to share related technologies and promote them. We wish to grow this user group with the help from community members to increase contributions to Cloud Native Platforms in Taiwan. We also wish to promote the concept of “Cloud Native” to enterprise, academic institutes, and governments.

NGO from the UK that is primarily dedicated to promoting diversity in software and design products.

A place for sharing everything about the Go programming language.

Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters (COSCUP) is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open Source community since 2006. It’s a major force of Free software movement advocacy in Taiwan. The event is often held in two days, with talks, sponsor and communities booths, and Birds of a feather (computing). The chief organizer, staffs, and speakers are all volunteers.

Moreover, we are looking for talks in several open-source related areas. welcome to join us for celebration.

COSCUP aims to provide a platform for connecting Open Source coders, users, and promoters, and to promote FLOSS with this annual conference. No matter if you are an Open Source coder, a devoted promoter, an enthusiastic user, or just a newcomer - We welcome you to be part of COSCUP!

PyCon, also known as the Python Conference, is an annual event that serves as the global gathering for the Python community. The 12th PyCon TW will be held at Academia Sinica in Taiwan this September. We aim to bring together individuals from various fields in Taiwan who apply Python, exchanging experiences and insights, sharing the latest technological developments, and experiencing the unique passion of the community.

Chatbot Developers Taiwan community is dedicated to providing a community for discussing chatbot-related applications.

Open Source Conference (OSC) is an event that conveys the current state of open source.
Not only in Tokyo, but also from the north in Hokkaido to the south in Okinawa, it is held in various locations throughout Japan all year around.
It is an event organized by open source-related communities, sponsoring companies, and supporting organizations. You can attend seminars, product exhibitions, and more, with free admission and participation fees.

オープンソースカンファレンス（OSC）は、オープンソースの今を伝えるイベントです。
東京だけでなく、北は北海道、南は沖縄まで、年間を通じて全国各地で開催しています。
オープンソース関連のコミュニティや協賛企業・後援団体による、セミナーやプロダクトの展示などを入場・参加料が無料でご覧いただけるイベントです。"

Focus on professional design communities that specialize in interactive and user experience design.

Wikimedia Taiwan is a local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates several free knowledge projects, including Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia. Wikimedia Taiwan was recognized as a chapter by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2007 and is dedicated to promoting free access to knowledge in Taiwan, as well as contributing to the Wikimedia projects in Chinese and other languages. The organization runs various programs and events, including workshops, edit-a-thons, and outreach activities, to encourage participation and contribution from the local community.

We welcome all MySQL users, developers, and anyone who cares about MySQL to come here and share your experiences, insights, and ideas about MySQL.

OpenStreetMap and Wikidata are both significant open data projects internationally. The former is a geographic data project, while the latter is a knowledge database. OpenStreetMap is a map project, similar to commercial map services like Google Maps, but it is open source and allows integration with other open source projects. As the youngest project within the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikidata is known as the “database of databases” and can store not only latitude and longitude information but also OpenStreetMap related IDs.

Major developer tools and deployment platforms in the cloud-native space support WasmEdge. For instance, it is bundled and distributed with Docker Desktop, reaching over 10 million developers. WasmEdge is also the default WebAssembly runtime on Fedora, Red Hat Linux, and the OpenShift container platform.

Let’s Read the Source Code Production Committee By reading source code, we hope to encourage more people to get involved in software development and plant the seeds of “programmers”.

The Agricultural Open Data Community originated from a 2019 agricultural think tank report project, and was spontaneously formed by the project team of the Agricultural Technology Research Institute and Taiwanese software companies to promote the development of Taiwan’s digital agriculture and data technology through non-governmental community efforts. In 2020, the Agricultural Open Data Community collaborated with the Open Source Conference, leveraging the promotion experience and network of the Open Culture Foundation to hold the “2020 Agricultural Open Data Forum”. Since then, annual conferences and gatherings have been held, inviting passionate pioneers from all over Taiwan who are striving to promote “open agricultural data” to selflessly share their hard work and tears in the annual community events. This year, we have expanded the scope of the agenda, and regardless of data, products, services, or source code, as long as they are open to users, everyone is welcome to submit contributions!

the O-RAN/B5G/6G research community of the Department of Electronics at National Taiwan University, in collaboration with BMW Lab, OSC Taiwan Lab, the Laboratory for Optical Communications and Sensing, the Laboratory for Information Technology Mobilization. The goal is to promote open network technology exchange among domestic industry, government, and academia.

The New Paradise Art Space was established in 1994 and has been in operation since 1995. It is committed to experimental and contemporary art, aiming to break through spatial limitations and expand the artistic community through cross-disciplinary and cross-regional approaches. Its goal is to develop different aspects of Taiwan’s contemporary art and culture.

Founded in 2014, with the vision of “based on China and contributing to the world”, it is composed of the principles of “contribution, consensus, and co-governance”. It is the earliest open source community with the mission of “open source governance, international integration, community development, and open source projects”. consortium. In 2017, Kaiyuan Club was transformed to be composed entirely of individual members, linked tens of thousands of Kaiyuan people, gathered thousands of community members and volunteers, hundreds of lecturers at home and abroad, and cooperated with nearly 100 sponsors, media, and community partners.

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime. As an official sandbox project hosted by CNCF, it is licensed under Apache License 2.0 and was initiated in 2019. Boasting a large and healthy community, WasmEdge has over 132 contributors from 51 organizations and 27 countries and regions worldwide. The community leverages WasmEdge for serverless apps, embedded functions like UDF and data flow functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices. This provides a lightweight (only a few megabytes), fast (starts in milliseconds), and secure runtime/container for running untrusted code.

Taipei Ethereum Meetup is a physical meetup community that focuses on the theory, implementation, and applications of Ethereum technology. Currently, speeches are shared voluntarily by community participants every month. Many of the participants are cryptography and blockchain enthusiasts and developers from different industries. Technical discussions sometimes also happen on Medium.
More information about Taipei Ethereum Meetup can be found on this [website]((https://www.meetup.com/Taipei-Ethereum-Meetup/).

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the set of rules that define open source software

The Linux Foundation provides a neutral, trusted hub for developers and organizations to code, manage, and scale open technology projects and ecosystems.

The Student Community Battle is a program jointly hosted by SITCON(Students’ Information Technology Conference), the annual student computing conference, and Google Developer Student Clubs Taiwan & Hong Kong (GDSC), which aims to provide a platform for students to showcase their talents and achievements in the field of information technology and computer science.
The program welcomes a diverse range of submissions from students, including experience sharing from a student’s perspective, technical sharing, research findings, independent study experiences, community operation, and discussions on topics related to students. Submissions related to Google technology and the Google Developers community are also encouraged. Participants are encouraged to draw inspiration from past SITCON and GDSC programs. Join us and make your voice heard in the Student Community Battle!

Rust is a programming language that enables everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Women Techmakers (WTM) is one of Google’s program that provides visibility and resources for anyone who works in the technology industry. We are holding a series of technologies, soft talks, and activities. Welcome to join us, to share, create, and led the future together.

Started from October 2016, hosted for more than 20 meetups, increasing users and developers, we aim to promote Julia language in Taiwan and establish series of Mandarin resources.
You can refer to the official website or join the Slack group “julialang” for more information about Julia. You can request an invitation at https://julialang.org/slack/ and also visit the English forum at https://discourse.julialang.org/.

Ubuntu-TW was established in June 2005 by a group of enthusiasts with the goal of promoting Ubuntu in Taiwan. We have partnered with the organizers of UbuCon Asia to promote UbuCon Asia 2023, which will take place in Surakarta, Indonesia on October 7th to 8th.
Let’s connect, chat, and have a great time!