1. Open So urce Indu stry P ro mo tion P ro ject
Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs
2003-2012
Institute for Information Industry (III), Taiwan
Ryan Chung ryan@iii.org.tw

2. Background
•National project under Industrial Development
Bureau (IDB), Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA)
•Time
–1st stage ： 2003-2007
–2nd stage ： 2008-2012
•Project Management & Strategy Planning by III
•Partners
–Taipei Computer Association (TCA)
–China Open System Association (COSA)
–Academia Sinica

3. Road Map
2003~2007 2008~2012
~2003
Grow th St age
Initia l Sta ge
OSS RIS E
Ap plicati on
In frastr ucture
Obse rvation
 Comm erc ia l Ap pli cation
Loca l Envi ronment
 Tec hn ical Sup por t
Promo ti on A cti vit y
Value Cha in Cr ea ti on  Develop men t & Ext ens ion
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4. What we have done? (2003-2007)
•Regulations
•Localization
•Compatibility
•Supplier Assistance
•Relationship
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5. Regulations
•Push Government to set the procurement
regulation.
–Each computer should be dual-boot.
–Status ： It works in 2005-2006, bu t ex te nd to 4
ch oi ces n ow.
•Win -only
•Lin ux -on ly
•dual -boot
•empty
•announce 2 research reports
–Government OSS Procurement License Mode Analysis
–Government OSS Procurement Operation Manual 5

6. Localization
•Im pro ve t he Li nu x C hi nes e enviro nme nt
–CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions Extension)
–Input Method Improvement
–Documentation Translation
–English2Chinese Linux Dictionary
•Mo st co nt ri bu tions s ti ll m ade b y
co mmun iti es .
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7. Compatibility
•Linux Compatibility Test & Certification Center
–Hardware Te st for Li nux Softw are
–Fir efox Compati bili ty Te st
–W3 C re co mme ndatio ns con ce pt p rop agatio n
–W3 C Vali datio n Guid eli ne Man ua l
–Lin ux Dri ver W ebsi te
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8. Supplier Assistance
•Help software vendors to develop Open
Source software
•Numbers ：
–2006, Government give US$ 6,00,0 00 to
software vendors, and they put over
US$ 9,00,0 00 by themselves, the result is
increasing the revenue over US$ 3. 3milli on.
–2003, the OSS vendors' total output value is
US$ 409 mi llio n.
–2006, the OSS vendors' total output value is
over US$ 2. 24 billi on , CAGR is 76 .3 2%
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9. Relationship
•Chi na
–cooperated in technical issues.
–create business opportunity
–conference & exhibition
•No rt heas t As ia P ro mo tion Fo rum
–http://www.neaoss.org/
•ADOC P ro ject Cooperat ion
– Chile, Indonesia, PNG, Peru, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
– Linux Computer Classroom
– Open Source Training
– http://www.apecdoc.org/
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10. What We Are Going to Do? (2008-2012)
•Ope n S ource So ft ware S ervi ce C ente r
–OSS Technical Support Service
–OSS Driver Resource
–OSS Solution matchmaker
–OSS Low-cost PC Service
•Ope n S ta ndard
–Push ODF to be the government document
default format
–Introduce LSB to The Bureau of Standards,
Metrology and Inspection

11. Our Websites
•OSS Portal - http://www.oss.org.tw/en/index.php
•OSS Service Center - http://support.oss.org.tw/
•III - http://www.iii.org.tw/english/
•ADOC - http://www.apecdoc.org/
•IDB - http://www.moeaidb.gov.tw/external/view/en/index.html
•BSMI - http://www.bsmi.gov.tw/english/index.htm

12. Thank Y ou !
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