Contract Programmer at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Taiwan
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- Contract Programmer of Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica
- Program Committee Member of Wikimania 2008 at Wikimedia Foundation
- Board Member at Wikimedia Taiwan
- Board Member at Software Liberty Association of Taiwan
- Past
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- Co-Principle Investigator at Open Source Software Application Consulting Center
- Project Manager at Knowledge sharing and collaborative creativity in the network communities (a NSC Project)
- Organizer and Program Comittee Coordinator of Wikimania 2007 at Wikimedia Foundation
- Program Manager at Open Source Software Foundry, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
- Project Manager at Second Division of National Digital Archive Program (second phase)
- Project Manager of Operation Team at Open Source Software Foundry, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
- Software Engineer at Open Source Software Foundry, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
- Contributing Editor / Translator at TSMedia (Linux Journal - chinese version)
- Education
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- National Chung Cheng University
- National Chengchi University
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Tzu-Chiang Liou’s Summary
My research interest is open and collaborative culture, ranging from open source to open content, my approach is to understand the people, practice and facilitate the strategies into policy.
In the past few years, my major responsibilities are cooperating with existing partners and developing potential partnership via resource and relationship management both internally and externally. To develop tight relationship between different stakeholders, I work closely with local communities, open source service providers and system integrators. Most partners are in charged of web and information technology related position in their field, ranging from government, education, academic, community and business.
Major in social science aspect of technology, began as a software engineer, experienced in project management; I have strong passion about the interdisciplinary nature of IT/web industry, I’m anticipating to take challenges of all sorts.
Tzu-Chiang Liou’s Specialties:
- Strategy analysis, brand management and resources coordination.
- Government and academic liaison.
- Programming in Java (SCJP 5.0) and C/C++.
Tzu-Chiang Liou’s Experience
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Contract Programmer of Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Developing websites for two projects using open source software solutions.
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Program Committee Member of Wikimania 2008
Wikimedia Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
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Board Member
Wikimedia Taiwan
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Wikimedia Taiwan is a non-profit civic and educational organization. The objective is to support Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (USA) and its projects in Taiwan.
I’m mainly help to develop the relationship with potential collaborators, including sponsors, media and other local communities. -
Board Member
Software Liberty Association of Taiwan
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
SLAT is a non-profit organization founded by communities who support free and open source software. The mission is to publicize the freedoms of software and to promote the usage/development of free and open source software.
* Bridge local open source technical communities and help with lobby in the Congress.
* In charged of hosting ICOS 2005 (International Conference of Open Source), and I was also the preparation team member of ICOS 2004 and 2006. ICOS is one of the important communities events in Taiwan and there’re more than 450 participants in ICOS 2005. -
Co-Principle Investigator
Open Source Software Application Consulting Center
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)
The project is funded by Ministry of Education, and executed by SLAT (Software Liberty Association of Taiwan). The mission is to facilitate the eco-system of open source software usage environment in campus, our initial goal is to build up and operate a technical supporting center.
My role is to connect local open source communities and coordinate the resources from IT students/professors in universities, NSC and Academia Sinica. -
Project Manager
Knowledge sharing and collaborative creativity in the network communities (a NSC Project)
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
November 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 2 months)
* Coordinate resources from academic and government.
* Cooperate with local communities to promote open culture.
* Co-organize Wikimania 2007, the annual event of Wikimedia Foundation. -
Organizer and Program Comittee Coordinator of Wikimania 2007
Wikimedia Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
October 2006 — August 2007 (11 months)
Wikimania is an annual conference of Wikimedia Foundation, it’s an interdisciplinary forum, where the enthusiastic community behind the Wikimedia projects and interested researchers and practitioners can meet to share ideas.
* In charged of program coordination as well as preliminary contact window of sponsors and media such as Chunghwa Telecom, DotAsia, Yam WebsTV, OMIA, Public Television Service OnLine, Yahoo Taiwan, Google Taiwan, GIO… etc.
* Work with potential sponsors and collaborators to facilitate the progress of preparation -
Program Manager
Open Source Software Foundry, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)
* Project coordination, brought up team morale and achieved the missions.
* Partnership management for different stakeholders
* Initiated relationship and accountabilities internationally
* Facilitated organic connections among various communities.
* Publicity management and media cooperation.
* Conducted researches in multiple dimensions -
Project Manager
Second Division of National Digital Archive Program (second phase)
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)
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Project Manager of Operation Team
Open Source Software Foundry, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 5 months)
* Brand development, Team coordination and management.
* Strategic Consulting, Connecting local and global OSS communities.
* Media cooperation, public relationship management and exposure.
* Generated new development deals, cooperate with International communities.
* Market survey and analysis -
Software Engineer
Open Source Software Foundry, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — July 2003 (7 months)
* Set up some project services including official website, mailing lists and backup service.
* In charged of testing and documentation tasks of software projects hosting website.
* Customer relationship management for community users.
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Contributing Editor / Translator
TSMedia (Linux Journal - chinese version)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 3 months)
This is the first professional journal that covers the technical aspect of free and open source software in Chinese market. We not only translated the Linux Journal into Chinese but also reported the market status of Taiwan. During the publishing period (two years and five months), the magazine incubated many seeds of free and open source software.
I translated over 50 articles in 28 issues, mostly the columns of Marcel Gagne, Doc Searls and Don Marti. I also worked as a technical contributing editor (from issue 3 to 28) to make sure the correctness and the readableness of the articles.
Tzu-Chiang Liou’s Education
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National Chung Cheng University
Master , Telecommunications , 2000 — 2003
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National Chengchi University
BA , Chinese Literature , 1993 — 1997
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