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Chih-Wei Huang | |
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| Born | (1970-11-20)November 20, 1970 (age 55) |
| Education | National Taiwan University (BS,MS) |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Website | cwhuang.info at theWayback Machine (archived 2009-08-14) |
Chih-Wei Huang (黃志偉) is a Taiwanesesoftware developer and promoter offree software who lives inTaiwan. He is famous for his work in theVoIP andinternationalization and localization fields inGreater China.[1] Theuser name he usually uses iscwhuang.[2]
Huang graduated fromNational Taiwan University (NTU) in 1993, with abachelor's degree inphysics, and earned amaster's degree inelectrical engineering from the university in 2000.He worked as adirector in Top Technology Inc., theCTO ofCitron Network Inc., and aproject manager ofTecom Inc. Huang currently works as aseniorresearcher of Core Technology Center inASUSTeK Computer Inc. He is one of the start members ofSoftware Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT), and the first[3] and second[4] members of the SLAT Council.
Chih-Wei Huang is the founder and coordinator of theChinese Linux Documentation Project (CLDP). He wrote the LinuxChinese HOWTO, and translated the HOWTO Index, Linux Meta-FAQ, Serial HOWTO,DNS HOWTO, Linux Information Sheet,Java-CGI HOWTO, IP Masquerade mini-HOWTO and so on. He developed theSGMLtools Chinese Kits to solve the Chinese processing issues ofSGML.[5]
He is also the second coordinator to theChinese Linux Extensions (CLE). He has been a developer of CLE since v0.7 and became the coordinator[6] of CLE v0.9. He pushed Chinese localization inKDE,GNOME andAbiword. He worked alongsideYuan-Chung Cheng andTung-Han Hsieh to pushArphic Technology to release four ChineseTrueType fonts for the free software community under theArphic Public License. He also wrotea book for CLE with others.[7]
As Core Developer ofGNU Gatekeeper (from 2001 to 2003), he developed new features like thread-saferuntime tables, neighbors andauthentication modules, a fullH.323 proxy andCitron's NAT technology. He wrote the first version of the English and Chinese manual for GnuGK.[8] He won the first prize of Open Source Contest Taiwan in 2003.[9]
He serves as a committer toKDE andGNOME,[10] where he helps to translate.po files and fixes bugs related to Chinese. He is a contributor topyDict,OpenH323,Asterisk,GStreamer etc. He works on a way to leverage the ASUSEee PC with the power of thefree software community[11][vague] and aims to provide a complete solution forAndroid onx86 platform. TheEee PC,VirtualBox, andQEMU are tested OK.[12][clarification needed]
Chih-Wei Huang and Yi Sun started theAndroid-x86 Open Source Project in 2009. The project aims to bringAndroid to the x86 platform.
Current project maintainer is Chih-Wei Huang (cwhuang@xxxx.org)