
In software freedom day Hong Kong 2011, a stroked senior demonstrated how he types chinese characters with Stroke 5 input method, it shows how does free and open source software (F/OSS) help people to communicate with each others.

Stroke 5 input method is simplified input method of chinese, available on Linux platform. seniors told us that they doesn't need to memories representation of 26 english keys in traditional chinese input methods. With only 5 keys (ie. NM,./) representing 5 type of stroke in chinese writing, seniors and children who know how to write a chinese character in correct stroke orders can input chinese words easily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhKsctCUeY&list=PL048D777727401782&index...
Stroke 5 project leader and social worker, Mr Kingman Leung said that the make of input reference table with 10,000+ chinese characters are completed by local seniors few years ago. With assistance of debian developers, stroke 5 is added to SCIM and some other input method engines. He would like to invite open source developers to port stroke 5 to other platforms, including android and meego.