Answers to 15 questions about open source entrepreneurship: choosing an agreement, safeguarding rights, public relations, finding money...

At 19:00 on November 8th, OSCHINA live broadcast - [Open Source Talk] No. 5 , invited three big names to talk about some of the problems encountered in open source entrepreneurship. They are:

  • Gao Chunhui , China's first personal webmaster, founder of Joyo.com, Mobile Home, ECSHOP software, "Love Wallpaper HD" application, founder of the world's leading IP library http://ipip.net
  • Wang Chunsheng , founder of ZenTao Software Company, an IT veteran for 20 years, and an entrepreneur for 14 years
  • Zhu Feng is the founder and anchor of the Talking about Podcast Network. Serial entrepreneur with rich business experience; many years of community operation experience; senior developer

In this live broadcast, we will try our best to answer these 15 questions:

  1. If there are loopholes in open source software, does it have nothing to do with the author?

  2. How to judge whether your project can be used to start a business?

  3. Should the open source software agreement be the most lenient?

  4. Should efforts be made to donate software to foundations?

  5. If a project is donated to a foundation, such as the Apache Foundation, the author needs to transfer "copyright authorization + patent authorization + trademark transfer" to the foundation. Can the author still control the project code?

  6. When the number of users grew the fastest, what promotion method was adopted at that time?

  7. How does open source make money?

  8. What should I do if my software is infringed?

  9. When negative public opinions appear on the Internet, how can we use public relations?

  10. How do you view some of the functional improvements, bug fixes, technical support, etc. requests made by free users?

  11. If you want to start a business, where can you find money?

  12. Do you want to accept investment? What are the reasons for rejecting certain investments? What conditions cannot be compromised?

  13. How do technicians transition to management?

  14. How to achieve continuous entrepreneurial success? Are there any lessons that other entrepreneurs can learn from?

  15. As an entrepreneur, how do you allocate your time and energy? What is the most important role?

 


Live Topic: 15 Little Things About Open Source Entrepreneurship

Live broadcast time: November 8 (Wednesday) 19:00-20:30

Live broadcast platform: "OSC Open Source Community" video account

Sponsor: Open Source China

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In addition, this live broadcast has received strong support from many communities or organizations, and I would like to express my special thanks to:

Qucheng open source community

The Qucheng Open Source Community was initiated by the ZenTao project management software team. The operating entity of the community is the Qingdao Qucheng Open Source Computer Network Technology Research Center, which is a non-profit social organization with social service activities. Qucheng Open Source Community is mainly for front-line open source software producers, contributors, organizers, sponsors and users. It aims to solve specific practical problems and aims to create an open source ecosystem with open source software as the core link, truly allowing everyone to An excellent open source software can be commercialized.

Official website: www.qucheng.cc

Zen Tao

ZenTao is an open source full life cycle project management software. It is designed based on agile and CMMI management concepts. It integrates product management, project management, quality management, document management, organization management and transaction management, completely covering project management. core process. Since its release in 2009, ZenTao has provided professional project management tools to hundreds of thousands of domestic companies or teams.

Official website: https://www.zentao.net/

Relish Blog

Jinjinledao Podcast was established in February 2016 and is a podcast brand under Tianjin Yuanxing Tianxia Technology Co., Ltd. The main creative team of Jinjinledao Podcast is composed of a number of industry veterans. Based on the principle of sharing and disseminating experience, the team has produced multiple podcast programs in the fields of IT, technology, tourism, education and other fields, and has received high praise from the market.

Official website: https://dao.fm/

IPIP.net  

IPIP focuses on the research, compilation and distribution of IP geographical location and IP portrait data. Our main product, IP geographical location database, is mainly based on BGP/ASN data and network monitoring points around the world for city-level IP geographical data annotation. The accuracy is much higher than Similar products at home and abroad.  

Official website: https://www.ipip.net/

GreatSQL Community  

The GreatSQL community was established in 2021 and was initiated by Wanli Database. It is committed to building domestic independent open source database versions and open source database technologies through open community cooperation, and promoting the prosperity and development of China's open source database and application ecosystem. GreatSQL is a domestic independent open source database suitable for financial-level applications. It has multiple core features such as high performance, high reliability, high ease of use, and high security. It can be used as an optional replacement for MySQL or Percona Server for online production environments. , completely free and compatible with MySQL or Percona Server.

Official website link: https://greatsql.cn/

Gitee repository: https://gitee.com/GreatSQL

Aikeson open source community

Aikeson open source community, an in-depth MySQL open source community. The community was established in 2017 and takes as its mission the open source of high-quality operation and maintenance tools, daily sharing of technical content, and database technology evangelism. The current open source products include: SQL audit tool SQLE, distributed middleware DBLE, and data transmission component DTLE. Here, you will gain: high-quality technical content, enterprise-level database tools and services, and rich community activities.

Link: https://opensource.actionsky.com/ 

PG Chinese Community

The PostgreSQL Chinese community is a non-profit non-governmental organization. Currently, all members join as volunteers. The purpose of its establishment is to build a PG database technology ecosystem (kernel, user training institutions, manufacturers, service providers, software developers, universities to form a "business and "interest-driven" healthy development ecosystem); to help enterprises solve talent training and enterprise commercial database cost problems, the community will publish the latest PostgreSQL information and PostgreSQL-related technical articles on various operating platforms to promote the development of PG technology in China.

Official website link: http://www.postgres.cn/index.php/v2/home

Concave language

The concave language is a statically typed compiled language designed for WebAssembly, with the goal of simplifying the development of WASM applications. The MVP version has been released, and online pure browser Playground and Snake case implementations have been provided.

Home page: https://wa-lang.org 

KCL community  

KCL is an open source constraint-based record and function language hosted as a sandbox project at the CNCF Foundation. KCL uses mature programming language technologies and practices to improve the writing of a large number of complex configurations such as cloud-native Kubernetes configuration scenarios, and is committed to building better modularity, scalability and stability around configurations, simpler logic writing, and more Simple automation and ecosystem tool integration.  

Official website link: https://kcl-lang.io GitHub

Warehouse: https://github.com/kcl-lang

AllData

AllData big data products are definable data middle platforms, using the data platform as the base, the data middle platform as the bridge, and the machine learning platform and GPT platform as the framework to provide full-link digital solutions.

Project address: https://github.com/alldatacenter/alldata

Community official website: https://alldata.readthedocs.io/zh/master/

acquisition technology

Dewu Technology has always aimed at "the best technical team in Shanghai" and has now established a R&D collaboration and management mechanism in Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou to realize the digitization and automation of the R&D process; covering supply chain, business support, algorithms, and front-end and other fields are the strong technical support behind the Dewu business.   

Official website link: https://tech.dewu.com/ 

Chongqing Software Park  

Chongqing Software Park is located in Chongqing Economic Development Zone, covering an area of ​​1.1 million square meters, and is organized into four major groups. It is one of the first batch of software industrial parks (comprehensive) in Chongqing, and Area A was selected as the "Starry Star" Demonstration of Chongqing's software and information service industry. Buildings (the first batch) were officially opened on September 16, 2019. Adhering to the development concept of "doing ecology = doing industry, doing talent = doing industry, doing service = doing industry", we built a park integrating technology, humanities, ecology and wisdom. An all-in-one leading software park. Focus on the "3+2" industrial layout to achieve the development of a new generation of information technology industry clusters.

The park has gathered nearly 2,000 software companies and nearly 30,000 software talents. More than 4,000 software copyrights have been registered. R&D investment exceeds 5 billion. More than 40 patents will win science and technology awards. There are nearly 20 companies with revenue of over 100 million. Based on the high-quality industrial resources of Nan'an District and Chongqing Economic Development Zone, focusing on software information services, intelligent manufacturing, green environmental protection, automotive software, automotive electronics, big health and other industries to promote high-quality development of the software industry, Chongqing Software Park will fully implement the "full The "Tianxing" plan strives to successfully build a famous software park in China by 2026.  

Park official website: http://www.chongqingpark.com/

Oriental Ruitong  

Founded in 1998, Oriental Ruitong is one of the earlier advanced IT technical training companies in China. It has authorization qualifications from more than 33 international manufacturers such as Huawei, Red Hat, Microsoft, PMI, VMware, Oracle, etc., focusing on cultivating IT talents. Currently covering areas: virtualization, operating systems, networks, security, databases, IT management, software development and other subdivisions, providing online and offline exchange training courses and activities.

Official website link: www.easthome.co

Qinpai software

Beijing Pulsarware® Technologies Ltd. is a technology company dedicated to developing productivity tool software. When it was founded, it was determined to delve into the field of tool software, practice the R&D spirit of excellence, and strive to launch high-quality productivity tools. The software serves developers at home and abroad, improves developers’ work efficiency, and creates commercial and social value at the same time.

ATOMDB™ database management client is a tool software developed by Qinpai Software to serve the majority of developers. It allows developers to easily execute queries, create and manage databases, and supports mainstream database management systems in the market. For example: TIDB, PolarDB, GreatDB, Renmin University of Finance and Economics, Shenzhou General, TDengine, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, etc. The software is designed to support operating systems such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The software uses plug-in extensions to support multiple databases.

Official website link: atomdb.com

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