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Why We Organized OSPO Summit 2022

NadiaJiang — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:06:29 +0000

People never do things for no reason, just as open source never happens for no reason. In that case, why do we spend the tremendous effort to run this summit during an epidemic? Let's hear from the initiators.

Blocking offline activities is hindering the growth of open-source

The various domestic anti-epidemic policies are significant barriers for every open-source activist. Long-term restrictions on cross-city transportation, such as airplanes and high-speed trains, make offline gatherings, which are very important for open-source projects, almost impossible.[1]

Although network technology and video conferencing technology are highly developed nowadays, we humans still rely heavily on face-to-face communications.

This makes community building, communication, and trust more difficult than it should be.

Constantly canceled OSPO events

Specifically for our OSPO-into-Enterprise Events [2], it was a miserable year. Almost none of the plans listed in December last year were completed, and all of them were interrupted, postponed, canceled, and then ended.

For example, in May, Dr. Li Xiang from ZTE and KuoSi prepared two topics for sharing:

Exploring Open Source Risks and Avoidance - From Business to Country
Open Source Project Office - A Management Perspective

Dr. Rui Li from Pengcheng Lab had even booked a meeting room in Shenzhen for us. However, due to various restrictions, our event had to be canceled. So much so that by the end of the year in November, we had not organized even one successful event.

And the OSPOs lined up in this queue are looking over their shoulders: ByteDance, Huawei, Ant Group, etc.

However, the world never stopped

While China acted so cautiously, the rest of the world took a more radical and courageous approach, gradually resuming all activities and got outstanding achievements.

The TODO Group, an OSPO advocate and leader, hosted in-person OSPOCon conferences in North America and Europe as well as the OSPOlogy.live event. Papers based on the OSPO have also been published, such as "The Rise of the Open Source Project Office," which summarizes the literature. All of this is based on the rising demand for open source in the enterprise.[3]

We don't want to distance ourselves from the world; all we need is to be in sync.

Embrace open source in the right way

With the release of the country's 14th Five-Year Plan, the emphasis on open source has been put under the spotlight, and speculators have begun to focus on this piece. They arbitrarily distort and destroy the open source, which requires us to properly sort out and point them out.

A minority of malicious merchants are recklessly misinterpreting the policy of autonomy and control, arbitrarily interpreting open source, and hindering the development of open source, which makes local governments and enterprises suffer. Facing this situation, companies serving the community with the mission of open source are hesitating and torn, and need to unite.

For the special local cultural and institutional background, establishing an open source project office is obviously the best choice to embrace open source in a business/institution/organizational way, which not only can avoid detours, but also improve your competitiveness.

Learning to work together in competition

Nobody doubts the numerous benefits of enterprises embracing open source[4]：

Lower cost
Use of Industry De-facto Standards
Faster Time to Market
Increased Consumer Trust
Collaboration on A Global Scale
Newer, More Scalable Technologies
Expanded Transparency and Openness
Digital Transformation Benefits

But recognizing this is not enough; collaborating is also necessary when you are in the same open-source community as your competitors. We need this atmosphere so much to be on the same platform as our competitors to talk. We collaborate on open-source projects and compete in business for the common good.

More to Learn

These are excellent reasons to have a large gathering of peers, but we still need something practical.

Practice for OSPOs, lessons, and takeaways.
How to win the support of management and what the consequences are in different management approaches.
How to balance open-source projects and corporate profits.
How to evangelize in such different cultures.
How enterprises can handle the increased use of open-source projects under the legal, economic order
Peer-to-peer communication
……

So we initiated an in-person summit about enterprises embracing open source to network, connect and share. That is OSPO Summit 2022! [5]

References

《开源之迷 - The Mystery of Open Source》，适兕 Kuosi，人民邮电出版社 People's Post and Telecom Press，2022-02
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/F6q2Jv0FMMu8Oi0joI5BXg ，Last visit time：2022-11-04
Open Source Summit EU 2022
https://openinventionnetwork.com/media/oin-resources/benefits-of-open-source/ ,Last visit time： 2022-11-16
OSPO Summit 2022 Official Website：https://ospo.events/zh/

About the Author

Author of "The Discovery of Open Source Trilogy" ("The Mystery of Open Source", "The Way of Open Source", "The Thought of Open Source".) and "The History of Open Source", the creator of "The Way of Open Source: Dedicated to the exploration and promotion of open source related ideas, knowledge and values", the LFAPAC Evangelist (2022 Team Chair), the personal open source expert of Cloud Computing Industry Alliance (initiated by China Academy of Information and Communication Research), the member of ALC-Beijing, the editorial committee member of CCF Open Source Technology Series.

OSPO Summit Launched!

NadiaJiang — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:05:31 +0000

OSPO Summit of the open source community, by the open source community and for the open source community.
—— Zhiqiang Yu, OSPO into enterprise meetup co-founder， OSPO Summit 2022 Chairperson

We are excited to announce that as a significant step in the local development of open source in China, the OSPO Summit 2022 has officially launched.

As a completely neutral event, OSPO Summit was initiated by the OSPO SIG of LF APAC evangelists, and we have a preparatory team of over 20 people from different companies and organizations.

Consultants:
Linux Foundation APAC, TODO Group, OpenInfra Foundation

Summit Chair:
- Zhiqiang Yu, Open Source Evangelist
- Nadia Jiang, COO at SegmentFault, Co-founder of Answer.dev

Executive Team:
OSPO SIG, LF APAC

Preparatory Team Members:
Jiansheng Li, Jie Liu, Le Ma, Zhiqiang Yu, Nadia Jiang, Jinghe Ma, Jie Hu, Wenbin Zhao, Guofeng Zhang, Horace Li, Richard Bian, Zhenhua Sun, Hong Li, Wei Meng, Ailin Yang, Yiyang Zhang

Our communication with international conferences has been interrupted for over 3 years due to the requirements of China's epidemic prevention policy. We urgently need an offline gathering to unite the open-source power of Chinese companies. We want to enable companies that rely on open source to share, learn, and summarize their experiences so that all parties can benefit, and especially practitioners can succeed.

Our summit is scheduled to be held in Beijing on December 16, and through a vote of the preparatory team, we have chosen Localization and Globalization as the theme.

Time: December 16, 2022
Location: Beijing, China
Theme: Localization and Globalization
China is special, whereas open source is global. We must perceive rationally, both to understand and implement according to the local situation, but also to integrate and influence the world.

The summit will focus on the successful practices of Upstream First and the work of OSPO. The OSPO leaders from various enterprises such as HUAWEI, ByteDance, Ant Group, etc. will bring the above topics and we will also invite international experts such as Dr. Ibrahim Haddad and representatives of various open source foundations to give us international leading points. TODO Group manager Ana will share how to build OSPO in the enterprise.

In addition to the sessions, we will also have many open discussion sections where attendees can choose from the following discussion groups based on their working background and requirements.

Engineering: Upstream First, cost reduction and efficiency, from 996 to 711, DevSecOps
Management/Culture: Enterprise Architecture Research, Open Source Culture, Enterprise, and Open Source Community, HR, OKR & KPI
Compliance and Assets: License, Supply Chain, SBOM, Accounting Assessment
Climbing the ladder: jump-start development, project community building, collaboration between enterprises to drive participants, becoming a leader in the open source world

We will do our best to ensure the high quality of this summit, avoid all kinds of advertising and strictly select the speeches.

We warmly welcome you to join us, as long as you are interested in building enterprise OSPO and the development of open source locally and globally. The Summit website is currently under development, so for more information please follow our core contributors on Twitter. （@zhiqiangyu, @lijiansheng1, @jiangbonadia） If you are interested in community collaboration and sponsoring us, you can contact me by email: nadia.jiangbo@gmail.com