Seokchan "Channy" Yun (윤석찬; 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.
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^Oh Yejin (오예진) (3 December 2013). 다음, 검색·지도 등 개방형API 사용량 월3억건 돌파 [Daum, 300 million Open APIs traffic per month]. Yonhapnews (in Korean).
^Seo Myungdeok (서명덕) (29 August 2007). 국내 최초 '오픈소스' 대학 강의 떴다 [The first 'open source' university course in the country]. Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
^Do Ahngu (도안구) (22 June 2009). 오픈소스를말한다 ⑭윤석찬 한국모질라 리더 [Open Source Interview ⑭ Channy Yun, a leader of Mozilla Korea]. Bloter.net (in Korean). Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
^Editorial (30 October 2012). 빅데이터월드 2012, 다음 윤석찬 팀장 "오픈소스 내재화 통해 실시간 분석으로" [Big Data World 2012, Channy Yun "To real time analysis with the open source internalization"]. IDG Korea (in Korean).
^Hwang Chikyu (황치규) (29 December 2014). 아마존클라우드, 내년 한국사업 3가지 키워드 [Amazon Cloud's three keywords for Korean business in next year]. ZDNet Korea (in Korean).