On March 25, 2023, the first advisory committee meeting of the openKylin community was successfully held in Beijing. Liao Xiangke, Ni Guangnan, Fang Binxing, Gui Weihua, Zheng Weimin, Wang Yaonan, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chen Ying, secretary-general of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, Lu Weifeng, secretary-general of the China Software Industry Association, Zou Peng, former professor of the University of Aerospace Engineering, Zhang Yuzhi, chairman of the Co-Creation Software Alliance, national defense Wu Qingbo, researcher at University of Science and Technology, Han Naiping, general manager of Advanced Operating System Innovation Center (Tianjin), Ji Zhiyuan, former researcher at the High Technology Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Zhang Wensong, open source expert and founder of LVS, Yang Chunhua, dean of the School of Automation, Central South University, Xinchuang Haihe Laboratory He Jun, head of the Scientific Research and Development Department, Chen Zhihua, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Kylin Software, and more than a dozen members of the Community Advisory Committee and experts were invited to participate in the meeting, offering advice and suggestions for the healthy development of the openKylin community. The meeting was presided over by Academician Liao Xiangke, Director of the Advisory Committee.

Zhu Chen, chairman of openKylin, introduced the latest progress and achievements of the community, and made a detailed report on the follow-up planning of the community.

Since its establishment in June 2022, the openKylin community has gathered 770,000+ community users from 165 countries and regions around the world, attracting 170+ corporate members from different fields such as operating systems, databases, office software, and CPUs. 59 SIG groups were formed. Driven by partners and developers, the openKylin community is developing steadily at a relatively fast pace.

Zhu Chen said that the general goal of the openKylin community is to build a desktop operating system root community that is “industry-led, platform-independent, technologically advanced, and ecologically rich”. The community regards controllable open source, independent construction, and innovative development as the focus of community technology development in the future, to achieve version control, autonomy, and innovation, and to improve version security capabilities. Secondly, in terms of brand building, we will focus on strengthening the construction of university websites and international cooperation, improve the international influence of the community, and drive more universities to understand open source and devote themselves to open source contributions. Ecology has always been the development focus of the community. In the future, it will continue to promote the open source ecological construction of the openKylin community, establish good cooperative relations with more companies, and provide users with a more convenient, efficient, and stable experience.

The participating committee members and experts exchanged and discussed the development and planning of the openKylin community, and provided many valuable suggestions on policy direction, technology trends, and open source rules for community development and construction.

Academician Ni Guangnan said that open source contributions determine the right to speak in open source, and openKylin has set a good example. He hopes that the community and domestic open source organizations will jointly promote and improve domestic open source policies and support measures, and continue to help the development of China’s open source cause.

Academician Zheng Weimin emphasized that there is still a gap between my country’s operating system and foreign products, and we need to carefully analyze our strengths and weaknesses, and continue to make efforts in areas of deficiency. In addition, in order to play the role of colleges and universities, we need to formulate effective strategies, including establishing an efficient evangelism mechanism to promote student participation, and applying this educational model to classroom teaching.

Academician Fang Binxing proposed to do a good job of adapting the interface of the system, and providing appropriate technical tools, to find and solve problems during use, to form a good contribution mechanism, and to attract more open source talents to jointly promote community development.

Academician Gui Weihua said that the masters are among the people, how to better play the role of the folk masters and make the software system better is the core. However, the current popularity of open source is not enough, and many people don’t even know how to contribute, so improving the utilization rate of the operating system is the focus of the next development.

Academician Wang Yaonan said that the development of domestic software must rely on the open source community, and the combination of products and communities will have vitality. Community development Students are a very important force, but the development of the community requires the joint promotion of the industry and enterprises.

Academician Liao Xiangke affirmed that Kylin Software led the establishment of the openKylin community and promoted community development, emphasizing that community development is inseparable from positive interaction with users, and hopes that the community will promote technological development in different fields such as cloud, edge, and end, and improve core competitiveness.

At the end of the meeting, the members and experts of the openKylin Advisory Committee visited the exhibition hall and learned about the development history, product features, and ecological construction of Kylin Software and the openKylin community. All participating members and experts fully affirmed this.

In the future, openKylin will continue to uphold the community concept of “open source gathers strength and creates the future together”, continues to promote technological innovation and ecological expansion, and builds a more powerful and excellent open source desktop operating system root community. At the same time, it will continue to improve its own open source technology development It will make greater contributions to promoting the development of China’s information industry.

The openKylin (Open Kylin) community aims to take “co-creation” as the core, on the basis of open source, voluntariness, equality, and collaboration, to build a partner ecosystem with enterprises in an open source and open way, and to jointly create a top-level desktop operating system community. Promote the prosperity and development of Linux open source technology and its software and hardware ecology.

The first batch of council member units in the community include Kylin Software, Puhua Basic Software, Zhongke Fangde, Kylin Principal, Meditation Software, Yiming Software, ZTE New Fulcrum, Yuanxin Technology, China Electronics 32, Jide System, Beijing Lin Zhuo, Advanced Operating System Innovation Center and other 13 industry colleagues and industry organizations.

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