SELF-INTRO OF Hong Feng... interesting to see what others in Asia are upto. FN -----

My name is Hong Feng. I was born in 1968 in HuNan Province, China.

After graduated from my university, I'd studied mathematics and Pansystems Methodology after the theory founder, Prof. Wu XueMou, in Wuhan during 1988-1991. In 1992-1995, I visited Russia and stayed in Moscow. I was greatly impressed by the Russian social reforms.

I founded RON's Datacom Co., Ltd. with other 2 people in May 1995 when I returned from Russia. Since then, I have been exploring how to build a successful business model on the basis of free software (which has wrongly been called as "open sources software" since 1998 in the public media and by part of the community). Free software is so interesting, I have been enthusiastically promoting it in China for years.

During 1997-1999, I had worked as the chief editor at O'Reilly & Associates in Beijing. It is an American publisher of computer books. During that time, I translated several books from English into Chinese. But I no longer effort any proprietary publications in the 21st Century.

In my spare time, I like reading books on various topics, especially philosophy and history (I should admit I am too bookish); travelling to some places with beautiful nature scenes (one of the places I dream to visit someday is the Kamchatka in Russia); collecting some Chinese traditional style paintings and Russian paintings; swimming in natural rivers and lakes (especially the Han River near my Wuhan home in the summer); and watching the soccer matches.

I am a true music fan! I like to play harmonica (mouthorgan) and Spanish guitar. Now I make some excises with a common saw and a bow (that's a quite new invented music instrument. The voice is a little bit like that of a Hawaiian guitar).

I admire and respect a few famous scholars, including:

* H. Poincare * G. Cantor * A. Einstein * B. Russell * E. Brouwer * D. Hilbert * K. Goedel * A. Robinson

I like some poems too, two poets I like the most are Mao ZeDong, and Heinrich Heine because the poems of both in their youth, are quite romantic, but became more revolutionary and less romantic later. My most favorite author is Isaac Asimov, for his unmatchable imagination and high productivity in such high quality.

I do not like to follow any sort of so-called "authorities", which forbid my freedom and the independency. I believe the intrinsics of the nature is a "regret" caused by uncompleteness.

I have a baby named "MNM Project" (MNM's Not a Million), who is 2 years old now. I am taking care of him to protect my freedom! A large part of the project is Hackerdom Training Program (HTP) going on now.

I am a freelance writer, the author of 4 books, including "Free Software: New Game Rules". I am also the publisher of FREE SOFTWARE Magazine (FSM). Till now, it is the only free (the ``free'' in freedom) monthly periodical devoted to the global free software community. It has both a web version and a paper version; both are free to copy and redistribute.

I am still writing a biography for my friend, Richard Stallman (the Chinese title of the book is "RMS BenJi") who is the Chairman and one of the founders of Free Software Foundation. It is a hard project, as I try to unleash the technical details of his software in Part II of the book. I would like to write more biographies into the BenJi series for free books (as a part of MNM Project).

To publish the free books in Chinese, I need to have a set of nice free fonts. I am designing high quality, free PostScript fonts in METAPOST. Since Chinese has thousands of characters to design, this project is still undergoing. PostScript specification is open, and widely supported by the publishing industry. GNU has a tool, "Ghostscript", which can interpret PostScript files; it is also a stack-based programming language. Because the typesetting is so fun, I founded the Chinese TeX User Group (CTUG) in 2000, which aims to promote Prof. Donald Knuth's TeX system for the community.

As a programmer, I like some programming languages, including Lisp, (Objective) C and assembly. Now I heavily work with Scheme for hacking and training. Scheme is a modern dialect of Lisp, quite small yet very powerful indeed (I shall say it is RMS who showed me the power and elegance of Lisp). Maybe you like it too and are interested in joining my MNM Project?

You can reach me by snail address:

Suite 3-3, WuZhong Street 200, DongXiHu District, Wuhan, HuBei Province, 430040 China P.R.

Or, electronically by email: info@mail.rons.net.cn to feedback your comment to the web page.