Hello everyone! I am very happy to announce an important news to you all:
Kaiyuanshe was officially established in KCC (Kaiyuanshe City Community) in Silicon Valley ! As an important initiative of the Open Source Society, KCC@Silicon Valley will become a bridge for international open source exchanges and a link between China and the global open source community.
Since 2023, Kaiyuanshe has observed that after the epidemic, members of the open source community are eager to resume face-to-face communication and gatherings. This is good news for the open source community that has long been operating online and working together remotely. Communication helps strengthen cooperation, share knowledge, and promote innovation; at the same time, in the " 2022 China Open Source Annual Report " , we also summarized the accumulation and thriving development of domestic open source projects, and some projects already have global influence and global vision . In this context, open source projects from China began to go abroad, and Silicon Valley became the preferred place to go overseas .
On May 31, 2023, Emily Chen, chairman of Kaiyuanshe, came to Silicon Valley to meet Yue Chen, senior vice president of technology strategy/planning from Futurewei, Anni Lai, head of open source operations and marketing, and Plug & Huan Li, Play's investment partner, held an open source luncheon on a sunny day in Silicon Valley. Everyone exchanged ideas around the development trend of Chinese and international open source communities, discussed the similarities and differences of open source at home and abroad, the changing trend of open source in China in the past two decades, the contributions of open source communities in China and specific implementation measures, and the development of open source projects. Commercialization, support for better development of early open source projects, and the latest development of ChatGPT and LLM and how open source organizations contribute to it, everyone spoke freely and sparked.
In addition, Kaiyuanshe was also invited to visit the office of Ant Group in Silicon Valley . Had an exchange with Ailing Teng (@小狼), a founding member of Kaiyuanshe and North American strategy director of OceanBase, an ant group database, and reviewed the story of like-minded people building an open source community from 0 to 1 since 2014; discussed He discussed the development of open source in China in the past ten years, especially the impact on Internet companies ; discussed in depth the similarities and differences between China and Silicon Valley in terms of open source and business environments, and how Chinese companies can better achieve globalization and commercialization in the future .
It was after this meeting that together we came up with the idea of establishing KCC in Silicon Valley.
@陈岳Yue Chen "I hope that through the establishment of KCC@Silicon Valley, international excellent open source projects and experts will be brought together to bring new enlightenment and innovation to the Chinese open source community."
@莱安妮Anni Lai "Silicon Valley has played a key role in the development of open source technology and culture. Its ecosystem, entrepreneurship, collaboration, and cutting-edge advocacy have contributed significantly to the advancement of open source projects, fostering innovation and benefiting the wider community Open source technology community. Open source community KCC@Silicon Valley will become an important bridge connecting China and the global open source community.”
@李卓玲Huan Li "Silicon Valley is the birthplace of all modern computer and Internet technologies, and also the birthplace of open source software culture, which has nurtured the vast majority of open source software developers and open source projects in the world. KCC @ Silicon Valley will be based in Silicon Valley and support open source the global work of the society.”
@蒙爱琴Ailing Teng @小狼"There are many excellent Chinese engineers in the world, participating in open source construction is one of the best ways for engineers to form a consensus, polish their skills, and promote communication. I am very happy to have the opportunity to link like-minded interesting souls ."
@陈阳Emily Chen "One of the four missions of Kaiyuanshe is to serve as a bridge linking international and domestic open source communities. KCC @ Silicon Valley can help bring in international excellent open source projects and experts, while leading China's technology, projects and Enterprises can go global . Let us look forward to the China Open Source Annual Conference (COSCon'23) held in Chengdu on October 28-29, 2023. Driven by KCC@Silicon Valley, it will bring us more high-quality international exchanges Opportunities to promote the exchange and cooperation of international and domestic open source communities to the next level."
The establishment of the open source community KCC@Silicon Valley marks our further expansion and influence in the international open source community. At the same time, correspondingly, KCC@Singapore has also been officially established, and KCC@London is also in full swing planning. Let us work together to make more contributions to the prosperity and development of the open source community!
Learn more about KCC :
KCC project introduction
Open Source Society City Community (KCC) Charter
KCC Event Planning Guide
Author | KCC@Silicon Valley
Editor丨Li Nan
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Introduction to Kaiyuanshe
Founded in 2014, Kaiyuan Society is composed of individual members who voluntarily contribute to the cause of open source. It is formed according to the principle of "contribution, consensus, and co-governance". It has always maintained the characteristics of vendor neutrality, public welfare, and non-profit. International integration, community development, project incubation" is an open source community federation with the mission. Kaiyuanshe actively cooperates closely with communities, enterprises and government-related units that support open source. With the vision of "Based in China and Contributing to the World", it aims to create a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem and promote China's open source community to become an active force in the global open source system. Participation and Contributors.
In 2017, Kaiyuanshe was transformed into an organization composed entirely of individual members, operating with reference to the governance model of top international open source foundations such as ASF. In the past nine years, it has connected tens of thousands of open source people, gathered thousands of community members and volunteers, hundreds of lecturers at home and abroad, and cooperated with hundreds of sponsors, media, and community partners.
