The 7th China Open Source Annual Conference COSCon'22 came to a successful conclusion on the last weekend of October in this golden autumn.
This conference is the first open source event in China held by Metaverse, and the innovative approach of synchronous linkage of multi-city offline sub-venues is refreshing. Metaverse venue: 1 main forum + 16 sub-forums on October 29, 1 main forum + 11 sub-forums on October 30. Offline sub-venues: community reunions in 9 cities are held simultaneously, technology sharing, community evangelism, cultural dissemination, open source market, open source tavern, real hackathon, Happy Hiking (Hacking), lively and exciting! At the same time, this conference also received simultaneous live broadcasts from 6 technology media + joint support or dissemination from 152 open source communities/organizations, and everyone gathered firewood to create a high flame.
Before the official closing article is released, follow the editor's footsteps and quickly review the grand occasion of this weekend!
1. The main forum gathers big names to talk about the future of open source at the crossroads
The main forum of COSCon'22 has 3 chapters, with the theme of "Open Source Standing at the Crossroads" , from open source trends, community and business, to open source innovation.
Without losing the style of previous years, this year's main forum also has a strong lineup——
From Dr. Ibrahim Haddad, executive director of the LF AI & Data Foundation representing the international frontier, Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, to Jiang Ning, director of the Apache Software Foundation 2022, director of the open source community & founder of ALC Beijing, Jiang Ning, CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation China Director, Keith Chan, Strategy Director, Asia Pacific, The Linux Foundation;
From academic open source pioneers, Deputy Director of Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Chief Scientist of Beijing Open Source Chip Research Institute, Bao Yungang, Director of Open Source Society & Professor Wang Wei, East China Normal University, to enterprise open source pioneers; from Baidu, ByteDance, Huawei, Kaiwu , VMWare and WeBank’s technical experts, to cutting-edge companies api7, Timecho, Beluga Open Source and other companies’ entrepreneurial leaders…
Wonderful theme sharing and round table discussions full of dry goods under the collision of ideas make people feel unsatisfied.
2. 16 online sub-forums, 173 experts jointly compose the top event of open source
In this year's COSCon, we have a total of 16 sub-forums, which are extremely diverse in forum settings, including technical forums such as cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, as well as open-source public welfare, open-source culture, and open-source forums. business direction. A total of 224 submissions were received in the early stage of soliciting topics, and finally after screening, a total of 173 open source experts brought 164 topics to share.
3. Innovation release of Kaiyuanshe Incubation Project, 2022 China Kaiyuan Annual Report sets sail
This year, Kaiyuanshe has also prepared a wealth of content to present to everyone at COSCon——
Standing at the crossroads, the Kaiyuanshe Council brought you a roundtable discussion **"Crossroads, the vision and thinking of Kaiyuanshe"**;
The open source leaders of the China Open Source Pioneer List shared their explorations in the community and business with everyone, and the topic of going overseas attracted much attention;
HACK HEROES, who is on the list of China's open source code power list , will share with you the story of his participation in open source.
Projects such as China Open Source Community Map, KToken, and Open Hackathon are also innovatively released on the main forum.
The annual China Open Source Annual Report, which has received wide attention from the community and is frequently cited by various organizations, also launched a preview version for 2022 at the conference, and the project officially launched! Want to witness the development of open source locally and globally this year with us? Read the original text and fill in the survey questionnaire , and let us restore the true status of the current Chinese open source community!
4. The first metaverse open source event in China, full of novelty and fun
The online part of this year's conference continued the previous years' simultaneous live broadcast on multimedia platforms (a total of 13 cooperative communities/media simultaneously broadcast live), and at the same time moved the conference to Metaverse for the first time.
Romantic flower seas, Kaiyuan trees , super easy-to-visit Kaiyuan Street, Kaiyuan exhibitions , fireworks all over the sky , blue sea ... After a week of exhausting work, we seem to have easily fulfilled our desire for travel and vacation on Metaverse.
There are also novel social functions such as pinching faces, exchanging business cards, text and video chats, taking group photos from the perspective of drones, following running, etc., allowing us to interact and communicate online as if they were face to face.
A metaverse marathon has fulfilled the sports dreams of many nerds and nerds.
Copy the link below to see a guest's Metaverse experience:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JQ56PektEdAS_ovZokJh0Q
5. Offline gatherings in 9 major cities, from Happy Hacking to Happy Hiking
In addition to the exciting content online, the offline city gatherings are even more exciting——
Open Source Bazaar, Tavern, True Open Source Hackathon in Beijing ;
Happy Hacking Technology Salon and Happy Hiking in Shenzhen ;
Shanghai ’s Open Source Bazaar, Children’s Education Exhibition Area + Parent-child Salon, Metaverse Awarding Ceremony, Science and Technology Creation Exhibition, Theme Wall + Recruitment Wall;
Chengdu 's DFRobot hardware works exhibition, open source hardware welding workshop, students' open source hardware works exhibition, Amu laboratory robot works exhibition, open source tavern;
Talking about open source in Wenzhou ;
Popularization of open source culture in Wuxi , DIY paper cup Robot, and adventure jellyfish planet;
Hangzhou 's open source sharing meeting, open source open wheat, open source market, open source tavern;
Suzhou invited relevant experts from Apache IoTDB, Byte, Tongyuan Information and other communities and enterprises to share on-site and remotely;
A number of industry experts and specially invited roundtable guests in Dalian will conduct in-depth discussions on cloud native, DevOps, and open source topics.
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Although the recurrence of the epidemic has no way for us to reunite offline, the offline gatherings in each city have also given us precious warmth.
6. You look at the scenery, but you don’t know that you are also the scenery
The rich and colorful open source activities, from online to offline, are inseparable from the hard work of every volunteer - it is you who have jointly created such a grand open source event, and completed it together with the open source club that does not have a full-time employee You have made almost impossible breakthroughs again and again, and you have become the most beautiful scenery among them.
You look at the scenery, but you don't know that you are also the scenery. We will carefully record the names of every volunteer who participated in COSCon'22. 174 volunteers, you are the driving force and source of innovation for Kaiyuanshe.
Although the 7th China Open Source Annual Conference COSCon'22 has come to an end, as Chen Yang, chairman of the Open Source Club, said, the window of open source for the younger generation has just been opened, and there are still more beautiful scenery and a bigger world waiting Let's explore, and the old open source people who have been swimming in the open source world will continue to use open source to inject more warmth and strength into the world.
This year we talked about Open The World, about open source standing at a crossroads, but next year we don’t know what we should discuss. The open source story of 2023 needs everyone to write, and we have to walk a long way together to explore the unknown and Wonderful world, record different scenery.
See you at COSCon'23!
Note: More detailed COSCon'22 conference review and conference speech videos will be released one after another after sorting out, please pay attention to the follow-up content of Kaiyuanshe KAIYUANSHE WeChat official account.
Produced丨COSCon'22 Organizing Committee
Editor丨Zhou Yunshi
Design | Song Chuanqi
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