Английская Википедия:Channy Yun
Seokchan "Channy" Yun (Шаблон:Korean; born January 19, 1973) is a South Korean technologist. He promotes Web standards for Web compatibility issues in South Korea, with a particular focus on encouraging adoption of Firefox.[1] He was an invited expert in W3C and contributed Web standards such as HTML5[2] and Web cryptography API.[3] He also founded WebStandards Korea[4] as a member of the International Liaison Group of Web Standards Project, which is an active advocate for Web standards and best practices either in their country of origin or domicile.[5]
Yun is known as one of the powerful voices of open-source software on Twitter, according to Chris Preimesberger of eWeek, who described him as "one of South Korea's top tech writers".[6] Yun is a well-known technical writer that maintains his own blog, having written over 50 columns on ZDNet Korea,[7] and was Asian editorial adviser of Lift Conference Asia. He was one of the founders of BarCamp Seoul and WebAppsCon.
He formerly held the position of CTO of Шаблон:Ill, South Korea's first Korean online music & radio service,[8] before joining Daum Communications, the operator of the Daum web portal. At Daum, he was a API evangelist, supporting third-party developers using Daum's Open API[9] and started the first Korean Open-source software class as an adjunct professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, at Jeju National University.[10]
He researched big data analysis with semantic web and medical informatics at Seoul National University[11] and focused on the Open-source software strategy of Big Data at Daum.[12]
He now works for Amazon Web Services as a technical evangelist in South Korea[13] and is an author of the AWS News Blog,[14] writing launch posts for new AWS services.
He is also known as the first Korean YouTube video uploader on August 9, 2005.[15]
References
External links
- Channy's blog, official blog
