This document provides an overview of open source in news media from the perspective of Hsin-Chan Chien. It discusses Chien's involvement in open source communities in Taiwan from 2003-2014 and the launch of The Reporter nonprofit news organization in 2015. The summary describes The Reporter's use of open source technologies like WordPress, React, and MongoDB in its digital platforms and editorial tools to make quality journalism more accessible and encourage innovation in Taiwanese media.

1. Open Source in
News Media
Hsin-chan Chien
hcchien@gmail.com

2. About Me
Hsin-Chan Chien (HC)
2006 - 2014 OSDC.tw organizer
2006 - 2015 Yahoo Taiwan
evangelist in “The Reporter”
from Sep. 2015
Mirror Media Sep. from
Photographer

3. 與 open source 相遇

4. Perl/PHP/Python
Party 2003

5. YAPC::Taipei
2004-2005

6. OSDC.tw
2006-2014

7. We have more and
more conferences

8. And then …

9. 2012.10
gØv.tw

10. About the gØv

11. More about the gØv
decentralized civic tech
community
Ask not why nobody is doing
this, you are that nobody
Not only political, but also
culture and art
Not only virtual, but also
physical

12. Projects

13. open data 的
意外之旅

14. 2014.10
gØv summit

15. And,
OSDC.tw 2014

16. Promote and
Use the open source

17. 動⼿做

18. 為什麼是
報導者︖

19. 2015
The New Media

20. But News Media…

21. 2015/09
The Reporter

22. About
The Reporter

23. The Reporter
Non-profit organization
Slow journalism
Visualize/Interactive
open source / open content

25. Why Open Source
Reusable technology is not the
core in News
Good News Media is an
important part for democracy
Just make people can build a
basic news site with lowest
cost
We need more media related
innovation in Taiwan.

26. Start
From Scratch
9/14 on board, 12/16 launch
Wordpress is super easy?

27. Arch.

28. Does it Work?
about 20% PR are from
community
The RSS feature comes from
community
16 watch, 35 forks and 135
stars in github
bunkobon
Yakitori

29. Tech Stack
React + Redux
Eve framework by Python
Apache traffic server
MongoDB

30. Version 0. diagram

31. The issues
Atavist is hosted service, and we have the performance/
latency issue
We can’t make it fulfill the requirements
Polymer is not really good for reuse.

32. Version 1. diagram

33. Complicated?
CMS? Wordpress
Component(s)?
API layer
Frontend servers
Scalable
Easier to reuse

34. Components

35. Keystone.js
http://keystonejs.com/
We want to make the editorial tool more friendly to the
editors.
Keystone.js is more like a blog system for the content
editing.
Draft.js provides the possibility.

36. The new tech stack
Apache Traffic Server
MongoDB
React + Redux
Eve by Python
Docker

37. In Mirror Media…..

38. The new design

39. About statics pages
performance
less modified
categories/tags pages
the latest-news modules
more ajax

40. What is the next?
APP
Visualization tools
Recommendation
AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)

41. Additional components
Elasticsearch
Logger
App (React Native)

42. Lesson Learn
Transitional Industry
Engineers don’t want to join the industry
What will be good for News site?
Building environment is more important than building
source code.
Architect design is important.

43. WORK?

44. https://github.com/
mirror-media

47. 徵求贊助
https://www.twreporter.org/