 In this session, I will report our progress of ODF and the Liberals of Migration in Taiwan. I say report again because last year, in Liberals Office conference last year, that's my first time to tell two successful stories in Taiwan which fully migrated Liberals Office. One is the Ilan County and another is at the price. OK, after the presentation last year, something amazing, I called it a chain reaction, started. First, a community friend mailed me that there are several people discussing the Taiwan status on the internet. This reddit is foreign, right? And I thought, yes, there are really many, many people discussing about this. And then there are several bloggers writing articles about this. This one is from KUPA, and I'm really, very surprised. Oh, thank you very much. It's very important, really, really. I will tell you them. Very important, you'll report very important because this reaction, I collect all these discussion and the bloggers, the URLs, and then I report that to our officers. The NDC is the main unit responsible for the migration in our central government. And I collect all the bloggers and all the discussions and happily report, really happily, having that tell the officers that, good news, sir. Now the whole world knows Taiwan is migrating to ODF and liberal office. And our officer, I think he must have cursed me that time because people working in the government, especially in Taiwan, they are always very afraid of being failed. And I believe that if I didn't do this, telling the whole world now, no Taiwan is migrating, they will have some space going back. But I did that because you wrote those bloggers and I collected them to report to our officers. He will find that, what? Now the whole world knows and we have no way to go back. So really the NDC starts to ask for the local governments. Excellent for please, some new proposals about how to adopt and the migrant liberal office. They actually didn't mention liberal office. They always mentioned ODF. But they said that including the editors that could edit standard ODF. And they also mentioned that the editors must be free. So at the start of the day, it's including the Microsofts. So that's our current status. First, the Eden County, that's the topic I reported this year. They started this year and now they are fully migrated. I mean fully migrated because every computer install and the liberal office and every file they send out is fully, except PDF files, they are fully ODF files, 100%. And if they have the status that some government will ask them to send DOC instead, they will tell them that no, you cannot regenerate my ODF file. ODF is our national standard. Now they are very confident about this. They are very confident about using liberal office and ODF. Then this year, from this year, I am now responsible for migrating the liberal office and ODF in Xinzhu County in the Pindong and Jiayi City. That's the city government level. The whole city government or the whole county government, this level, we start to communicate and we start to train. Yeah, I'm responsible for the four city and for the Xinzhu City and the Taoyuan City, that's only partial departments. For the Taoyuan, the tax department asks us to give them migration and the training. And in the Xinzhu City, it's even more interesting. It's the police department connect with me and ask us to give them training calls. And of course, for each city and the county, I'm responsible for the migration. I will always have the communication phase. That is, I will have an explanation session first before all the training calls and to the people in the government. And for the Hua Lian and the Penghu, that's another training school responsible for the liberal office training. And for the others, yeah, I haven't heard any news about the ODF migration. That's the local government. And for the central government, it's a lot more slower. That's no surprise. But very interesting is the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance, you see three green blocks, right? Actually, they migrated to the open office and the office and the ODF earlier, very early. Maybe in this, OK, we have, that's all they have. We have a friend sitting there who works in the Information Center, right? New microphone, please. I become a witness of an open source introduction. So before, it happened before I went there. So it's in 2011, we adopted open office. Then later, maybe around end of 2014, we evaluated liberal office. They migrated to liberal office in 2015. So the range what we introduced extended from the fiscal inform agency and financial taxation bureau extend to the whole Ministry of Finance. Yeah, OK, thank you. For the Ministry of Finance, at least we have these units that's fully migrated. And for preparing to go, what I mean is the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they started to ask us questions. Like, is liberal office, how about the security issue about liberal office? How much money will it cost to migrate, ask us such questions? But not really started yet, OK? That's our progress now. But the most important in this talk is this, our communication phase. In our communication phase, I will always hold its presentation sessions in many, many places. I have already maybe more than 30 or 40 sessions everywhere in Taiwan. The smallest, maybe only 15 or 20% and by the large it can be to 400 or 500 percent. And we tell people about why we should use ODF, but the topic about ODF, not the liberal office. And we use three different aspects to make people to think about. The first is we compare between ODF and OOXML. We didn't compare between liberal office and Microsoft office. We compare between ODF and OOXML. We let people assume that, OK, assume we are now using the OOXML as our national center. What will happen? Then I tell them, in this graph, of course, the platform is bound to the software. So if we choose OOXML, we must review the software we are using now. So we tell them the earliest version is Office 3.0. And then up to 2007, 2013, and 2016. But here, in this graph, I mark 13 and the 16 as red. Why? Because these two versions cannot run on Windows XP. It is a very serious problem. Because there are still many government, school, even enterprises still using Windows XP. That's true. That's true. OK. The second problem here, I have a line. This is about current timeline. Current moment. I ask the people that, if we choose OOXML as our national standard, then we must unite the same version of the software we use. Is that correct? Of course. Because if you generate a file from Microsoft Office 2013, can you open it using Office 2007? No. But we still have many users using 2003, 2007, 2010, to 2013. So if we want to use OOXML as our national standard, we must unite the versions everyone use. Or it cannot change. The people who are rich, they can have Office 2013 or 2016, but the file they generate cannot be opened by other people using 2003. That's a serious problem if you need to exchange the documents. So at the moment, what version should we use? Assume currently we are still using OOXML as our standard, what version should we use? I will ask people, if we use 2003, please raise your hand. These people raise your hand, you are kidding, because 2003 can not even open OOXML. So I will ask everyone, then they will find out for those who raised for 2013 to 2016, I will ask them, what should we do for those people still using OOXML? That's a problem. And the second, now, assume everyone used Office 2013, then now 2016 is coming out, and 2019 may be coming out. Do you need to change that time? And what if Microsoft decided to raise their price? What can we do? I made people think about this. Do we have another choice? They will find that. I tell people that using OOXML as our standard, for users, maybe you don't need to change your habit, you don't need to change your software, you don't change. You are happy, but for the government, for the country, it is a serious problem. Because we cannot unite the version, we have no enough budget to even upgrade. If we want to upgrade to 2013, we even need to upgrade the operating system or even the hardware. How much budget do we need? OK, we made people think about this. That's the first aspect. The second aspect is to tell them why we should use open standard. What will happen if we use a preparatory format or even open standard format, but it's joined up by a single commercial comment? I use an example from one of my friends, who is an artist. This friend, he is good at drawing, and now he mainly uses 3D graphics. And he used to use the software named Soft Image by Autodesk. He used that software for five or six years and created many artworks. And sometimes for some project or money, and sometimes his own creative artwork. But until one day, Autodesk decided to close this application just for the company policy. Then he had a serious problem. If his current Soft Image is gone, his current computer is down or broken or anything, he will no way to open his creative artwork anymore. For an artist, it is a problem that all his creative artworks is zeroed just because he couldn't open the file anymore. So the friend started to promote open standard because he knows that open standard file is the only solution to this problem. We use this example to make people think that, yes, we need to use open standard. But especially not by a single commercial company. Because even an open spec format by a single commercial company, they can change any time they want. Any other software, yes, the specs open. But when I create a software to read the file, they can change that any time they want to make your software not work again. OK, the third aspect is about international trends. That's mostly United Kingdom, northern Hungary. Yes, but this one is the most important one, I think. The example of Sweden. The National Procurement Survey, or NPS in Sweden, suggests that this happens in March this year, right? Suggests 46 IT open standards include ODF, HTML5, and SVG, and so on. And I tell people that, OK, the news is here, but there's one thing he didn't say. OOXML is not in the list. Why? I met people saying, why? They are just suggesting open standards that can be used by the government, right? Of course, they can include OOXML. It's just suggestions. It's not a force to push specific formats. Of course, they can include OOXML. But why did they exclude OOXML? I tell people that I haven't contacted with the Swedish government yet. But I believe the reason should be the same as why United Kingdom selects ODF as the standard, and why Italy defends, and why Northern and why Taiwan selects ODF instead of OOXML. That means using ODF as standard is not a policy. That's only because we want to save budget. It's not a policy that we only want to save budget. It must have more important reasons to exclude OOXML and use ODF. We met people thinking about that. It's not a policy that we just want to annoy people and feel happy. They will always feel annoyed when they need to use lip office instead. But I tell them that, no, it's not a policy that just we want you to save the budget. It's more important about why we need to use ODF and why Sweden decided to exclude OOXML. That's the same thing. That's the same thing. That's the same reason. So it's a very important point to tell people. And people here, when I speak in my speech to Kier, they will start to nod. Oh, yes. It's true. And OK, it seems that ODF seems to be not a policy that they imagine as such a bad policy just to annoy them. They will start it not. Then finally, I will talk about the attitude. The attitude about when we face problems, what attitude should we have? Not the way to solve those problems, but the attitude we have. We need to have. OK, because we know that people always complain and resist a lot, especially when using open source software. I don't know why, but when you want people to switch from preparatory software to open source software, they always have a lot of reasons, a lot of excuses. I don't know why, but OK, we may then recall some good memories. We access them. OK, we deeply use to window system. But do you remember how you react when you see this? Do you remember how you react? Do you decide to send the report or not? Yeah. If you decide to send the report, did Microsoft contact with you and say sorry? Did they? OK, we always solve the problem ourselves. We use three keys, which three keys control altitude delete to solve this problem. But what if we see this? How you react when you see this? Control altitude delete may not be used as how you react. Usually, will you call the Microsoft and the accident to solve the problem for you? Or will you curse Microsoft and the software that I won't use Microsoft anymore? No, that is what they do. The most powerful button in the computer, power button press, reboot. And what if we still see it after reboot? We will reinstall the windows. We will send the computer to the vendors to fix. The whole process, I ask people that, in the whole process, what did Microsoft do for you? And how we face this problem? Didn't you decide to solve that yourself? Did you swear to that I won't use Microsoft anymore? No, you didn't. But why did you resist when you have problems using the office, using any open source software? We made people think about this. OK, so that's what I mentioned in my explanation sessions. But we still have some problems about migrating. The most serious, of course, is this. ODF files generated by the Microsoft. Because for those counties or cities that market is blue, OK, sometimes they will send ODF files but generated by the Microsoft office. And we have examples that the city government generated the ODF files by Microsoft 2013. But in the local village, they only have 2007. They cannot open that. Or using LibreOffice to open those files, usually it will be a tragedy. So that's still the most important problem. And now we start to plan the solution. Because NDC finally realized that it is an important problem. They finally realized that. So we will have a customized version, just similar to LibreOffice. But we will have our local companies or developer join to develop this to customize. And of course, in the explanation session, I highlight before Microsoft office we can follow all the spec and extension correctly. Please, please, please, don't use it to generate ODF. OK, what to do next? For those counties, for the government units, local and central, they haven't started to migrate. Of course, we need to push that. Now we will collaborate with NDC to do this. And makes things easier, a system-wide support, and makes things easier, CC lesson tutorials. We always open and share our tutorials on the internet. And the complete ecosystem is an important part. Because in Taiwan, our commercial companies or users who use or join open source related projects, they won't feedback anything. And we are now trying to push them to feedback. For example, to feedback to the ODF. That's what I'm trying to do now. And for the development, of course, we need to cooperate with the international community. And for promoting the marketing, I'm now also trying to make Taiwan join the advisory board of the ODF community. Our director, yesterday, I received his mail. He's interested in it. But of course, we may have some political issues to suffer. Because Taiwan is in a special political situation, you know. Yes. OK. That's the progress this year. Thank you.