[Osia-discuss] Re: [Linux-aus] Meeting with Chinese Government representatives re Linux.

[Colin Charles]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 11:00 +1100, Pia Smith wrote:

> > The Chinese Government have been investing heavily in the adoption of
> > Linux within China, and have two major Chinese Linux distributions Red
> > Flag and Cosix, mostly in the desktop market.  China has formed a
> > strategic relationship with Korea and Japan with regards to Linux and
> > the development of standards for the handling of double-byte character
> > sets.
> 
> Red Flag is obviously related to Red Hat, and Cosix is a JDS based system.

I talked to a Red Flag bloke yesterday, and he knows nothing more than
the few press releases where Red Hat themselves mention that they'd like
to have relationships w/Red Flag

I do now have a copy of Redflag Desktop 4.1 here, not installed it, but
I believe they do base it off Fedora, as he wanted to know if upstream
(fedora) would include WINE, because they do

>From what I know here, Red Hat is a big training shop in Beijing/China,
but they are going to put out jobs for about 86 positions in the near
future, and the manager/chief is probably going to present to the BLUG
their interests in China, come January's meet (~11th Jan 2005 iirc)

> Thus they are looking for two things in Australia (apart from the advice
> and such). They are looking for software developers, people who can work
> on drivers, Linux and BSD kernels, software integration software and
> others. They are also looking for integrators. People who can go to China
> to assist with the big banking rollouts. I suggest we create a mailing
> list purely for this purpose and anyone interested join the list, and
> there we can have the technical discussions with the Chinese delegation to
> determine where we can fit in. I certainly see a lot of opportunity here
> for anyone interested, and the sad irony is that we have a lot of
> unemployed developers. It is kind of awesome to know that they are
> approaching us for resources :)

+1. The market here is awesome, by the looks of it. Be it for
drivers/kernel work, VoIP is big, migration analysis/specialisation, or
even creation of workflow processes and integration for simple office
stuff! Custom software to be written too
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