 Shall we just start now? Okay, thank you. Thank you for joining us today. I'm Isabelle. I'm a lawyer and has been contributing to the open source community in Taiwan, not by writing codes, but by helping the community to understanding the free and open source software licenses since 2000. I still remember the first time I read the new general public licenses. I was totally shocked as I was working for a big law firm and dealing with intellectual property cases, proprietary, of course. And anyway, I found the ideas and approaches and the community and the people are fascinating. So I become a contributor and buy with my legal professions. And now I'm the Gaviru Joseon's chairperson and Joseon is the tax force which held the Gaviru Hexone every other month since 2012. And Joseon means inviting people to join something in Taiwanese. And the zone means Hexone. So Joseon means inviting people to Hexone. The Joseon members have been organizing organized Gaviru Hexone since 2012. And I'm currently also the general secretary of Taiwan AI Academy. And then we are initiating the first non-profit open source AI platform for small and medium enterprises in Taiwan. What I want to share today is open source is a good thing. I think all of you already know about that. And I think this is something you may not aware of yet. I think everyone, including people who don't code, should have a chance to contribute to an open source project. By contributing to an open source project, they contribute to the society. And I want to convince you this by telling you the story of Gaviru.tw. So what is Gaviru? G0V. What is it? Yesterday morning, a Gaviru contributor sent this message to the Gaviru Slack, showing the answer to get what he got when he asked the question, what is Gaviru to the open AI chatbot? It is that Gaviru is an open source operating system developing in Taiwan. In Taiwan, which is right, but it is not an open source software. So now I want to come to the first open Gaviru project I want to introduce to you. It's a project trying to resolve the problem of disinformation. The project's name is COFFEX. COFFEX is an information checking platform operated through cloud collaboration and the chatbot to have discrete messages of unknown credibility carefully reviewed and discussed through the joint efforts of the public. You can forward the skeptical messages to the COFFEX chatbots. And if the content of the messages are already reviewed by the COFFEX editing community or other fact-checking organizations, the chatbot will send back the result of the facts to you immediately. If not, it will be served in the COFFEX database waiting for reviewed to be reviewed. The database is CC licensed. So many several commercial companies use the database to provide their own fact-checking products. And the project, the code are open sourced. So the project are forked in some other countries, such as Thailand and India. So another, so if the answer is sent to COFFEX for fact-checking, I think the result will be it is disinformation. Then another Gov0 participant to drop the chatbot answer who asked in Chinese Mandarin, what is Gov, what is Taiwan Lin Shi Zhengfu? Gov0.tw. It is said, so the answer is not completely right also. So what exactly Gov0 is? Since 2012, the civic hacker movement has risen up, calling for transparency and public participation. The Gov0 community hosted its first hack zone in late 2012, which called a hack zone zero. Using right code to change society as its catchphrase, the civic hacking spark was set off back then and it continued burning until now. Within 10 years with contribution of thousands of participants, through hack zones, the community has set up many platforms and at creating more open data or promoting open government, worked to reduce the digital divide and worked to reduce the barrier to public participation to make public oversight a reality. The community has also promoted the value of rational public dialogue. In this movement, for open data and collaboration within the Gov... In this movement, for open data and open government, the Gov0 community has established a new model for civil society to collaborate with the government. As of December 4th, Gov0 Slack has more than 700 channels with more than 12,000 participants. The community has hosted 53 hack zones and four international summits. So what exactly these people do? We set up the manifesto. We come from everywhere. We are citizens collaborating to bring about change. So what exactly these people do? Let's look back at what happened in the past three years. The collaboration occurred during the pandemic and the Mac huge impact. The pandemic affected different countries in different time frames. In early December 2020, the situation getting very serious. And because Taiwan was hit heavily by SARS in early 2000, when things getting worse, Taiwanese people got very anxious and it become more and more difficult to get masks and sanitizers. Then someone took action. This is Howard. He runs a Goody studio in China, which is an important community for Google developers in the south. He is a Gov0 contributor. He co-hosted Gov0 hack zones with Zhou Song in China in December 2019. Howard's family has no shortage of masks, but when he went to the street stores, he saw similar things repeated. People walked into the convenience store with anticipation and there was a huge request. A long queue, and there was a long queue. When they heard the clerk say, masks are sold out, they sigh and left and went to the next store to try their luck. In the line group of relatives and friends, people often shared messages reminding that this store is sold out and that one just arrived. In this, Howard thought, if this kind of information is shared publicly, wouldn't it save more people's time? So in the midnight of after he sent her daughter to sleep, he decided to turn on the computer and write a program. After six or seven hours, after six or seven hours, he completed the convenience store mask status reporting map, calling on the public to report the intermediate sales of masks at thousands of convenience stores across Taiwan. The mask map is so popular, Howard got a bill of $20,000 US dollar bill from Google, not in New Taiwan dollars, because he uses Google Maps service. And then at first, the mask map rely on information reported by the general public afterwards through the coordination of the OG town, our digital minister who is a founding member and also senior contributors of Godero, the developer cooperated within government and was able to utilize data provided by the NHI database, making the information on the mask map more comprehensive. When the government are releasing the open data to real time, of real time mask stock, developers created more than 100 different kinds of apps and websites to provide information for people who are trying to buy masks. So all these development coordination happened on the Godero slack. And with strict border control and the guarantees, the positive cases was very low and the Taiwanese people live without lockdown of any level for 15 months until May 21st. When the spiral of confirmed cases, there are more than 900 participants working on 15 projects with online tools in one week. And these projects include aggregation, visualization and even fact check mechanism of information which will help individuals to take the right action to fight against the pandemic. And this created social solidarity which is crucial to the success of containing the pandemic. Many of these projects were updated and expanded by the feedback and crowdsourcing of its users. So one unique project is the 19122. This is Taiwan and far away that is Texas in United States. S is a Godero contributor and was organizer of Godero Summit in 2016. He was studying quantum computing for a PhD degree. He was worried about his family and friends in Taiwan because most people was not vaccinated at that time. He discussed a mechanism of contact tracing with fellow Godero contributors in Taiwan. They invented this mechanism of contact tracing based on text messages. Audrey Tong bring back the invention back to the government and the government work across sectors with telecom carrier to deploy it as 1922 SMS system in a week. Scanning a QR code with your phone building camera and sending a toll-free text message. This allowed contact tracing to trace the footprints of the infected people without revealing any private information to the venue owners. So how does this start? What motivates the founding members of Godero? The answer is anger. The technology of the service is not difficult. For example, a senior engineer with four or five years of experiences can do a mask map. In an interview, Howard said, the difficulty is a motivation. Most people may feel that he has nothing to do with that. So they don't want to do it. I think Howard's experience within the Godero community gave him the motivation when the island faced the threat of COVID. Back in 2012, because of the housing inflation, President at that time, Mr. Ma, he released Housing Justice, he met the Housing Justice, a key component of his 2012 re-election promise in an attempt to counter the speculation and enable fair taxation. The parliament passed a bipartisan bill matting the old real estate transaction register the actual price. As part of the mandate, the Ministry of Interior commissioned a website on which people can find transaction records by street addresses. The site went live on October 16th to a flood of requests and remained only intermittently accessible for most of October. Three days after the launch, a team of four Google engineers in Taiwan incorporated the Ministry's data into their real price map website. Overlaying aggregated price information on Google Maps with fielding features. Their remix was an instant success, serving hundreds of requests per second from Google App Engine without a hitch. However, after sensational media coverage pitted the team's short-stream budget of $580 against the official site's million-dollar disaster, the relationship became sour. The Ministry used the crowling activity as a convenient excuse for their own service downtime. While critics questioned the legality of scraping and remixing government data, the incident came to a head on November 14th when the official site replaced old street addresses with image files. Dramatically increasing the burden of crowling by a skilled hacker eventually published parsed data using OCR techniques. It is clear that the intention, the attention is of no one's benefit to anyone. The price map, the real price map site closed shortly afterwards. And while the real price incident was still unfolding, a new government production took a spotlight. A 42nd propaganda video titled What's the Economy Power-Up Plan? Come up. Entirely devoid of information, the clip simply in repeated. We have a very complex plan. It is too complicated to explain. Never mind the details. Just follow the instructions and go along with it. The video went on air again on October 19th just before Yahoo Hacking Day on YouTube. The video went rival as viewers on YouTube rushed to click report abuse in protest. The automated system quickly classified the video as scam and banned the government's YouTube account for two days. And then on October 19th, it's a Yahoo Open Hacking Day. A team member of Switch, they met a last-minute Switch in their project from online shopping projects to a website that visualized how government spending their money, how government budget was spent. This was in response to the valued attempt to collaborate with the government on housing data visualization and to President Mars advertisement claiming that economy policy was too complicated for citizens to understand. So after we need the price, the team purchased the Got Zero, the TW domain. Then they used the money to host its own hack zone dedicated to more political-related projects. This was the Got Zero hack zone. On the registration websites, okay, this is a visualization plan. So the organizers that people are frustrated and think they can't change anything, but with little efforts from everyone, we can make it even less effort for more people to effectively care about things. Got Zero.tw did a budget visualization and won a prize from Yahoo Open Hack Day 2012. We are using the price to host another hack zone to accelerate the change that needs to happen. The organizer named the hack zone as named the Zero hack zone of martial mobilization invoking a rebellious image from the 1949 era Civil War. The event is a big success. On December 1st, 2012, 58 civil hackers built the venue and presented their projects, covering a wide range of government functions, including Congress, Geographic, weather, electricity, healthcare, and many other areas. Lifely discussion continued online at Hackpad and IRC, well after the day-long event. That was the first hack zone, and the 50th will be hosted next January. This is a decentralized civic collaboration experiment in Taiwan. The mission and vision is set in the Got Zero manufacturer. We confound everywhere. We are citizens collaborating to bring about change. We are a polycentric community of self-organized contributors. We live open source. We have fun and want to change the status quo. We are you. Got Zero has its own root in the open source community in Taiwan. Almost all of the founding members and the early participants are contributors of Taiwanese open source community. These geeks know the open source way and believe this is the right thing, got things done, and makes a sustainable impact. So we now have upset open source community, congestive surplus, so people can use their free time to contribute and we have open data. But if your mission is to change the society, you cannot depend on developers and the engineers only. You need to invite more people to join. The organizers of the first hack zone already invite developers, UI designers, activists, legal experts, and the citizens who want to see things to change with the use of technology. So we need to communicate to the citizens who want to change to see things change. So the step two is introduce the active community to the open source way. This is sometimes could be very difficult. This includes introducing open technology, open licenses, and open culture. The community encouraged the newbies to join the slack and to communicate and think with others. And encourage noncoders to write down and encourage the noncoders. Instead of writing codes, they can write down his ideas, proposals, and the meeting minutes. These are very important contributions as documentation is super important in the open source projects. And we will remind the contributor to use CC licenses. We will use to use CC licenses for their work. So others can reuse and remix their work. And the culture is, open culture is above all more. The community promote collaboration instead of collaboration or central coordination. Release early and release often. And talk is worse is better. If you send out something bad, you actually let others have a chance to improve it. It's good for the community. And also talk is cheap. Show me the code. These are the, so I will suggest, so these are the ideas there that we will introduce to the noncoders if when they join the open source community. All of the Cov0 projects are results of self-organized open source communications. These actions are independent but connected at the same time. The Cov0 contributors, coders, and the noncoders share similar value and have consensus on the community norms. This includes open source access and transparency, equal, liberal, self-organized, polycentric, and fun. And we try to convince the people who don't code to use HackMD, Slack, Google Workspace, GC, GitHub, open data for collaboration. And we also use Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Line to reach out to more potential participants. So after 10 years, we have a kind of a balance within the community of coders and noncoders. The background of Cov0 participants are most of them are engineers but we have students, NGO organizers, PM, social and marketing staffs people from education, writers, editors, designers, government, and researchers. So the community is very diversified. And you can look at the three keywords of Cov0 participants. The Python is a very big one but we also have a low community backend. Japanese, GIS, and design. So this also shows diversity within the community. So I would say the step that we take to introduce, to include more noncoders in the community is kind of success. And the gender ratio of Cov0 event participants are getting more and more balanced through the years. At first, we have almost 80% male participants but now we have only 60% male and more female and non-binary gender participants. So the three keywords to summarize the three keywords of Cov0 is open source, free software, open source, hands-on, and public spirited. And I would say according to impact survey from our participants, we summarize the Cov0 collaboration includes open source, closed demand, and hands-on or activism. So here comes a very difficult step, how to keep the momentum going. I think if you have ever got involved in a community and become organizers or kernel members, this is something you will worry about a lot. So we analyze the elements of the ecosystem of the Cov0. So there are four major elements, which is Zhen. It means contributors. It could be individuals or NGOs. Song means the haxons and the collaboration tools. It means a field you can collaborate with others. And the issues, action items, which people can do something to get a solution then. And Yuan means source code documentation. It's a result of the work of collaboration. So you need contributors to come to the haxon and to propose his idea. So he has this three-minute proposal time. And he meant the first document to the haxon. And in the haxon, we need a translation between different background participants. Like I have to translate ideas from non-coders to the developers. And we learn from peers in the haxons and on the stack. And recruit someone who has the skill you need. And set up a working group to implement or get your project done, realize. And if you want to make your proposal come true, regular meeting is essential to make collaboration constant. So when the source code come out and they have impact to others, and this empower more contributors to join the haxon. So this is the best practice of things. This is the best we can expect. But sometimes in many situations, things just cannot go through to the source code and the result. And it went back and forth in haxons and issues. I think all of you can understand this. And then one thing is very important is decentralized. Why we took decentralized measures to avoid a single point value? I want to introduce a book called The Rise of Nantes or Nantes Politics. I think the book describes something, things happens in Gavdiro community very precisely. In the book it said Clampers include people from computing, law, arts, media, politics works in teams. And the teams mobilize crowd. It changed the politics situation. But in Gavdiro we added very important elements, which is open source way. So this, I think this is the reason that the community can last for 10 years and has huge impacts domestically and abroad. So we have many many different task force and projects within the Gavdiro community. So some contributor says Gavdiro is a common with our fans. With a sign of Gavdiro manifesto, anyone who agree with the idea and share the same value can walk in and live freely. But everyone, I think all of you knows the tragedy of commons. You still need someone to maintain the infrastructure and clean things for others. So here comes the Joe Song task force. Joe Song consists of six volunteers to form a governance group with members rotating as chairperson and fundraising to hire full-time staff. These three full-time staff is, I think it's the only staff in the community. All of other contributors are volunteer basis. So on the project basis to provide to provide stable manpower needed by the community for daily operation. So what does Joe Song do? The three keywords establish, engage and incubate. Establish means a set of spaces for collaboration. So we maintain the infrastructure such as HackMD and the Slack and Google Workspace and also hosted by Hexone by Monthly very regularly. Because with the face to face in person communication is very important even in online community and engage, we attract participants from different domains and areas and incubate, guide the newbies, give support and aid new projects with resources we have. The another thing I want to share is open source enlightenment which is a talk given by Allison Randall in 2012. Just eight months before the Gap Zero started it's first Hexone. This is very useful and enlightened to me. In the talk he mentioned a lot of the words which we keep in mind when we run the community. And the principles we work to as organizers in Joe Song we work to make the Gap Zero participants who are using their spare time to contribute. This is very important. People are not paid to do this. So it feels easy to collaborate and having fun and meaningful to contribute. So easy to come contribute. So we give clear instructions for people to join and we will remind people how to propose their proposals and invite people to definitely join a Hexone in person. And the clear rules and the short slots in the Gap Zero Hexone. We have a newbies guide before the Hexone began. Three keywords self introduction in 10 seconds for everyone in the room. So we have a proposal in three minutes for every project. Short sharing in eight minutes. Demo of the day in five minutes. The slots is very short so you don't have to feel burdened by this. And we summarize the Gap Zero community in nine minutes reading. Months they updated for participants to know what happened in Gap Zero in the past months. And we think the Hexone is three minutes pitch and hack and the five minutes of breathing. And during the whole day we just talk and eat pizza and the fried chickens and have good time together. So fun is very important. We give fun elements in the community. We have a lot of different stickers. Each sticker shows different skills. So when you enter a Hexone you can just pick up your one stickers and put it on your page. If you don't want to talk too much I know a lot of the geeks don't like to talk. But if you like to provide your skills you can just choosing like a pison on your stickers, on your page. And then someone who needs contributors who can write pisons can come up to you to ask for help. And also during some projects we also have this QT and very easy way to participants in. And we even have rockers to join the Hexone to have a small concert. We did not invite him. Because Hexone's name is Autonave. That is the 42nd Hexone. And you know the 42 is the ultimate answer to the universe. So this rocker has an album at that time. The name of the album is 42. So when he saw the name of the Hexone he just feels so connected to the community. And he actually is a developer and a website developer and a rocker at the same time. So we had a really great time at that Hexone. And we are happy to visit this guy from Jawsong. And we have these cars, annual cars. And OG Town were translated from Taiwanese, from Chinese mentoring to English for us. This is for the cow year. This is an open collaboration together. We are working on the New Year's cards for next year. So if you have any good ideas, please send it to me. And also the most important thing I think is meaningful to contribute. Meaningful means can be very personal. Like, you know, many of us find their partners for a lifetime here. So people in the community are very happy together. And also they have this very huge impact to the society. We contribute, the community contributes to, in the sunflower occupation, which changed the path of Taiwan, I think. And also we force the government to change their law in public money donation. And we have provided the visualization of air quality with some other open source, open hardware communities. So people can read the quality of the air from these websites. And it was invaded in many schools' websites. And it was forked in Thailand and China, too. And also the cases were put in the text. And we have a lot of information. I think the government, the zero community become a very important pillar within the Taiwan, Taiwan. So we have met, so I would like to go back to those last few minutes. community become a very important pillar in within the Taiwan so we have met so we will I would like to go back to the motto of God God zero x not why nobody is doing this you are the nobody so that's my share today thank you if you want you can join the cup their stack is a join that cup the G zero V dot TW and I'm Isabel you can find me there anytime thank you