Speaker profile: Hojun Song

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Hojun Song is an artist and also Director of Open Source Satellite Initiative (OSSI). He thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think.

On 28th August 2009, he is launching the official website for OSSI. His team plans to test and launch the satellite in 2010 and to operate it in conjunction with artists, funding satellite program with cultural events and ultimately demonstrate that private satellite program is possible. Lastly, for effective knowledge sharing, OSSI aims to strive for responsible and kind open source project to build satellite and the entire satellite building process will be presented.

Hojun Song graduated from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Korea University and the ICU Engineering Graduate School. His various designs and projects are presented in Studio hhjjj.

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