Open Source Society Hundred Days: We are the open source community of the United Nations

October 16, 2014, announced in Beijing Open Source Society, in the Microsoft Open Technology Beijing Office for the Hundred-day results sharing.

At the beginning of its existence, 24 members were added to 36. New members include Canonical China, Docker Chinese community, Haier, wrtnode, etc. In addition, OSS has set up an open source Ambassador program to look for people across the country who are interested in open source and have the ability to build open source technology for schools or businesses.

Open source in the internal establishment of the "Open Source Star" project list (Microsoft Open Technology China as the leader), by the open source after the audit based on source code and open source agreement to give the project certification. So far, only 45 open source projects have received the "open Source Star" certification, through the rate of 30%, because most of the domestic open source projects do not conform to the open Source Agreement specification. "Open source Star" itself is also an open source project, allowing people from all walks of life to improve the function. and the open source community involved in code hosting platform will also be "open source Star" project to do code hosting and promotion.

Open Source Society will focus on the early stage of the campus, followed by the domestic mainstream part of the technology, industry Congress. 2015, the open Source Society will launch the technology salon, open source workshop (open source micro-course), open Hacker Marathon, regular offline party, open source translation platform.

The open source translation platform will recruit volunteers (including translators and reviewers) to complete foreign technical documents, excellent open source related article translations, and publish in the open source community and the CODE translation platform. Open source community partners together to build an online programming environment, platform, exempt hackers marathon participants complex configuration development environment issues, but also support the online Hacking Marathon project. At present, the online open programming platform is only available for members of the open source community for active use because of the huge resources involved.

According to Liu Tiandong, chief technology officer at Microsoft's Open technology China, the Open-source society wants to change the impression that Chinese developers used to "just not give" communities, but this requires a process of accumulation. According to the latest data from GitHub and Sourceforge, the contribution of China's open source projects has begun to lean forward. Chen, the founder of Gnome Asia, said that China had been "catching up" with open source technology in the past, but in recent years, with the idea and the growth of open source understanding, the domestic open source technology has reached a mature trend.

Liu Tiandong an analogy:

Open source market is like a Rubik's Cube, on the surface of each member is a separate side, but after the arrangement, integration, will show a lot of combinations possible.

The membership of the open Source society needs to be reviewed by members and no dues will be paid upon accession. According to the Gitcafe market Director Lin Brigade strong description, the open source community compared to the task distribution, more members of the voluntary claim work and task.

According to the members of the Open Source Society, the Open Source society is currently helping members to understand and improve the process of open source technology promotion or access to the field of technology open source. At present, the open Source Society also has a certain degree of competition in the membership, but they are willing to product, technology does not constitute a competitive part of open source, reduce the industry, developers, users of the cost of use. They believe that open source in China's market is still in the early stages, it must rely on the strength of the community to make it bigger, each member can benefit from it.