Write and enforce fine-grained application permissions using Policy-as-Code with Cedar

Cedar is an open-source language and software development kit (SDK) for writing and enforcing authorization policies for your applications.  Using Cedar, you can express fine-grained permissions as easy-to-understand policies enforced in your applications, allowing you to decouple access control from your application logic. In this session, we will introduce the core concepts behind the Cedar policy language and authorization engine, as well as how you can leverage this open source project to add access control into your applications.

Mendel Wong

Mendel Wong is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of CitizenScience.Asia, a community and organization established in response to the lack of a unified voice for Asia in matters relating to citizen science. The goal is to connect the regional citizen science communities and help share their stories. Mendel is also a Board Member for the Citizen Science Global Partnership and External Advisor Board Member for CS Track.

Platform engineering with Django

Platform engineering, also known as an "Internal Developer Platform" aims to provide developers with a seamless and efficient environment to manage the entire lifecycle of an application. Django, a popular open-source web framework, is known for its rapid development capabilities and clean, pragmatic design. By leveraging its built-in features, one can expedite the process of developing platform engineering solutions. In this session, I will share my experience using Django for platform engineering at an AI company.

COSCUP Booth Team Journey

The COSCUP Booth Team is a newly established group this year, primarily responsible for setting up booths in various locations. You may wonder why this group was specifically formed and what it has accomplished since its establishment.

In this session, I will share the reasons behind my decision to establish this group, as well as the activities undertaken after its formation and the impact it has had on COSCUP.

How to Implement an Email Subscription and Delivery System - Using COSCUP Newsletter Subscription as an Example

This session will guide you through the process of building a comprehensive email subscription and delivery system, starting from domain and email configuration. We will discuss how to establish a subscription system, verify unique accounts, effectively manage subscriber lists, set up email tracking, create email templates, perform bulk sending, and avoid bouncebacks and related issues.

Ko Ko

Microsoft AI MVP / Chatbot Developers Taiwan

Ko Ko is a Microsoft AI MVP and a popular lecturer in Taiwan. He was invited to many technical presentations, including COSCUP, .NET conference, ModernWeb, PyCon APAC, DevDays Asia and so on, which had more than 10,000 participants in total. He loves sharing his experience and what he learned to the audience, and he believes those sharing can make each other better.

結束一台獨大:去中心化社群媒體的內容審核難題

Facebook、Instagram、Twitter等社群媒體一台獨大。有人詬病它們監督不力,讓虛假資訊和極端思想滿天飛,亦有人不滿它們審查言論和無故封鎖帳號。有人因此轉投MeWe等另類中心化平台,有些人則希望結束一台專政,建設去中心化平台。

但是去中心化只是手段,更好的社群才是目的。去中心化平台該如何處理不良內容,克服內容審核的不可能三角?去中心化社群媒體,很多人都聽過Mastodon,那你有聽過近期流行的Bluesky Social 嗎?Mastodon有什麼不好要去開發新的網絡協定?社群媒體演算法對用戶是壞東西?

從Mastodon到Bluesky Social,講者會分享去中心化社群媒體面對的內容審核難題,從技術角度深入解構兩個系統架構上的取捨。可是到最後,會發現最難的從來不是技術問題,還是人的問題。


 

Ka Cheong Chu

Open source contributor to AT Protocol and Farcaster, Director at Internet Society Hong Kong, Ex-Apple Software Engineer.

Ka-Cheong, the Director of Internet Society Hong Kong and an open-source contributor to AT Protocol and Farcaster, leads a discussion on the future of a decentralized social internet. Explore how these emerging protocols could replace traditional, capitalistic social networks like Twitter, and delve into the possibilities, challenges, and implications of such a transformation.