Software Liberty Association Taiwan was founded in 2001. The target of this association is to serve free and open source software communities and promote FOSS. All these years SLAT put much efforts on promoting FOSS in education, including running the OSSACC (Open Source Software Application Consulting Center) project for Ministry of Education. In recent years SLAT launched a social movement named "Software Liberation Movement", in order to make people aware of vendor lock-in problems and digital freedom.
Besides, SLAT cooperate with National Development Council to promote the national policy of using Open Document Format (ODF) as the national standard for digital documents. SLAT also actively participate in some international FOSS organizations like The Document Foundation and Open Source Initiative.