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

• wenming@openresty.org

• 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 NPO

• 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

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