The world is open source, coming to Chinese developers
Recently, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon+Open Source Summit 2023, the world's top technology event in the open source field, was held in Shanghai, compared with the previous conference, this conference is not only more diversified in terms of topics, but also dozens of technical experts from overseas, with the latest research results and best engineering practices to attend.
In addition, the sub-foundations of the Linux Foundation that came to China this year, in addition to the familiar CNCF Cloud Native Foundation, as well as the heads of OpenJS, LF Networking&Edge also came to China to communicate face-to-face with enterprises, technical teams and developers.
After the main forum session, Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Robin Ginn, Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, Ranny Haiby, CTO of LF Networking & Edge, and Robert Reeves, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Linux Foundation, participated in the media meeting and shared the introductions and current work priorities of each sub-foundation with more than 20 media media.
There are already 60+ CNCF member companies in China
CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk introduced CNCF's work in promoting cloud-native computing, which has absorbed more than 173 projects around the world, with more than 210,000 contributors in 190 countries, and China has become the second largest contributor to open source projects.
At present, more than 60 Chinese enterprises and teams have become CNCF members and play important roles in the work of the foundation.
Chris also cited the 2023 Gartner Emerging Technology Development Cycle report, which said that WASM, cloud native, financial operations (FinOps) and open source offices (OSPO) will be important directions in the next phase of technology trends, and CNCF continues to focus on these directions.
OpenJS: Great influence, greater security responsibility
Robin Ginn, Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation, introduced OpenJS's commitment to promoting the JavaScript ecosystem, with key projects including Node.js, jQuery and more.
Robin mentioned that there are currently more than 1.8 billion JavaScript technologies in the world, and open source supply chain security and SME upgrades are the focus of attention at the moment. When it comes to package dependency security issues, 75% of vulnerabilities come from transitive dependencies. Robin believes that these data reflect that the security maintenance of the open source ecosystem needs to be strengthened, and the community needs to work together.
Edge computing fully integrates AI capabilities
Ranny Haiby, CTO of LF Networking and LF Edge, presented the evolution of open source software applications in various industries and the end-to-end open source solutions they provide. It also introduces the open source applications of AI at different levels.
LF Networking and LF Edge emphasize that open source is penetrating more verticals and driving standardization, and Ranny believes that open source software is already becoming the infrastructure of various industries, and embracing open source is the general trend.
Partner program, the first to land in China
Finally, Robert Reeves, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at the Linux Foundation, gave a brief sharing at the end, highlighting that China is an important force in the current global open source field.
The Linux Foundation has just launched a developer and partnership program, first in China, hoping that more enterprises and projects can participate, and the Linux Foundation will further empower open source projects through this partnership program, and interested enterprises and teams can visit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/partnerships Learn more.
Embracing Chinese open source starts with coordinating time zone meetings
Q&A CSDN reporter asked questions, hoping to understand how the Foundation defines the current development of open source in China, and what support the Linux Foundation has made for the Chinese developer market?
Chris replied that the current active and active contributions of Chinese developers truly reflect the continuous rise of China's influence in the open source field. The Linux Foundation is working hard to help projects and developers in China in many ways, such as coordinating more appropriate times for participants in different time zones around the world at important meetings, and currently rotating meetings at important Linux Foundation meetings in friendly time zones between China and the United States.
For example, if this week's meeting is scheduled at a time friendly to the US time zone, then the next week will be held at a more friendly time in the Chinese time zone.
In addition to online time zones and event coordination, CNCF also tries to hold as many offline activities for the Chinese market as possible and arrange offline face-to-face communication, which is important for building an inclusive international open source community.