building tech community in china
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The Apache Way Building Tech Community in China
Wen Ming 2016-11-16 Seville,Spain
About me• 温铭
• cloud security and anti-phishing platform
• more than 40 patent applications in the security field
• Chair of OpenResty Software Foundation
• twitter: @_WenMing
OpenResty
• full-fledged web platform by integrating the standard NGINX core and LuaJIT
• widely used in CloudFlare, JD.com, Sina, UPYUN and Youku
Agenda
• how OpenResty Chinese community is built up from scratch
• Rapid growing tech community in China
• Keep Calm and Thinking
Story： Mission Impossible
one year ago
• No OpenResty Chinese community
• Google Group && Great Fire Wall
• English document
• icy beauty
started from a confusing and accidental stage
• lots of the engineers on the team left after Chinese New Year in 2015
• Set a new plan: 2 open-source books,1 talk, 1 Conference
Are you nuts?
–Benjamin Franklin
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”
far beyond our expectations
• QQ(software for chatting and file sharing) group
• gathering 3,000 engineers from open source book
• active && only tech discuss
IM vs Mailing List
• not friendly to Search Engine
• IM for work communication
• fell relax && free talk
• problem：How to gather the discussion and friendly to Search Engine?
Online Video Course• Online Education is hot in China
• BigData、iOS、JS、PHP…
• 15 minutes each lesson
• learn a new technology on the way to work
• mobile phone, iPad
• the popularity of 4G telecom, good paying habits
cooperate with StuQ
• 30 OpenResty Online Video Courses
• OpenResty Skill Map
• Skill Map: https://github.com/TeamStuQ/skill-map
companies
• QQ group and WeChat group
• nickname need include company name: superman-google
• lots of companies are using OpenResty
Foundation
• Link companies and community
• set up NPO in China is difficult
Two options
• apply Legal NPO
• grey area
Legal Charity
• OpenResty Software Foundation
• Hong Kong IRD(Inland Revenue Department)
• first && only one legal software foundation in China
Legal NGO in Mainland China
• ZhuHai Open Source Technology Promotion Center
• ZhuHai CAB(Civil Affairs Bureau)
Charity Law of China @Sep.1,2016
handle law issues by myself
1,000,000 RMB Donation
face to face
• OpenResty Con 2015
• monthly meetup@Beijing
Rapid growing tech community in China
background
• mobile internet
• startups
• senior engineer becomes very rare
• Cloud Computing && Tech communities
startups provide service for startups
• PaaS、CDN、Cloud storage
• QINIU: Golang
• UPYUN: UPYUN Open Talk
startups based on Open Source project
• Apache Kylin
• TiDB
• Vue.js
• internationalization & commercial development
live video broadcasting
• almost all the tech con and meetup have live video
• to bring people together to learn together and grow together, this is the definition of the community
WeChat Groups and Official Accounts
• ⾼高可⽤用架构(ArchNotes)
• 中⽣生代技术(freshmanTechnology)
• Tech sharing
Nonprofit organization
• TechieCat
• Golang Software Foundation of China
• OpenResty Software Foundation
tech community alliance
Keep Calm and Thinking
personal branding VS
Chinese traditional culture
–a Chinese idiom
“The shot hits the bird that pokes its head out”
engineers' understanding towards OpenSource
contributions
• “code contribution is the only valid way”
• document？
• translation？
• test case？
Valuable sharing
• “talk is cheap, show me the code”
• something like what I talked about today？
bias on programming language
• the best way to stir an argument: ”PHP is the best programming language in the world"
Chinese Internet company has changed its thinking
towards OpenSource
• Alibaba: removed IOE(IBM,Oracle,EMC)
• HuaWei: OpenStack
• OpenSource Committee
Post-90s generation
summary
• Chinese low-key culture
• GFW
• rapid && international grow
• young people chasing their dreams
Q&A