Dromara Among the List! 30 Chinese Open Source Achievements Showcased at the 2024 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit
Great News! The Dromara open-source community won the Second Prize in the "2024 China Internet Development Innovation and Investment Competition (Open Source)" guided by the Cyberspace Administration of China's Information Development Bureau, jointly organized by the China Internet Development Foundation, the China Academy of Cyberspace Studies, and the China Internet Investment Fund, and undertaken by Beijing Chuxin Open Source Technology Co., Ltd. Several core members of the community were recognized!
Thanks to all the friends in the community for your support, and thank you to the competition organizing committee for your recognition!
Below is the report from China Economic Net.
Mr. Song, the head of the competition organizing committee, commented on Dromara: Some open-source communities spontaneously formed by grassroots developers, such as Dromara, are truly touching with their culture of "contributing for the love of open source."
On November 21, 2024, at the Internet Public Welfare and Charity Forum of the 2024 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, the 2024 China Internet Development Innovation and Investment Competition (Open Source) concluded successfully. This competition is part of the brand public welfare project "China Internet Development Innovation and Investment Competition." Guided by the Cyberspace Administration of China's Information Development Bureau, it is the second national open-source public welfare competition jointly organized by the China Internet Development Foundation, the China Academy of Cyberspace Studies, and the China Internet Investment Fund. After multiple stages, including preliminary selection, code composition analysis, and final on-site evaluation, the competition finally selected 10 first prizes and 20 second prizes from 97 participating projects. The winning projects cover fields such as RISC-V, operating systems, databases, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and supply chain security, with some projects reaching internationally advanced levels.
Since its official launch in April 2024, the 2024 China Internet Development Innovation and Investment Competition (Open Source) has attracted widespread attention from professionals in the open-source field. This year's competition was undertaken by Beijing Chuxin Open Source Technology Co., Ltd., with co-organizers including: China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance, Kechuang China Open Source Innovation Consortium, China Software Testing Center, China Engineers Joint Body, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd., National Innovation Center of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles, Beijing Open Source Innovation Committee, Shanghai Open Source Technology Information Association, Huawei, ZTE, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Damo Academy, WeBank, Ant Group, ByteDance, JD.com, Xiaomi, QiAnXin, and dozens of other industry institutions, as well as research institutes such as the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institutes of Science and Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, National University of Defense Technology, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan University, East China Normal University, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Southwest Jiaotong University. As the main platform for the competition's publicity, China Economic Net set up a special section to report on the competition's news throughout the event. The Linux Foundation AI&DATA Community, the Apache Software Foundation, and domestic developer communities such as CSDN, InfoQ, and SegmentFault actively contributed to the online publicity of this year's competition and offline promotion activities in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and the Greater Bay Area.
Professor Lu Shouqun, a leading figure in China's open-source industry and honorary chairman of the China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance, stated: "China's cybersecurity and information infrastructure and underlying technologies benefit from the global proliferation of open-source technology. World-renowned open-source projects such as Linux, Kubernetes, and RISC-V have cultivated a group of world-class open-source technical talents in China. Talent is the foundational support for achieving a technologically strong nation, national rejuvenation, and winning the initiative in international competition. The open-source competitions continuously held by relevant units of the Cyberspace Administration of China are of extraordinary significance. Open-source competitions are an important channel for discovering, selecting, and cultivating young open-source talents. Enterprises, universities, and research institutions in the open-source ecosystem should regard this as their responsibility, actively support and participate in it, and contribute to cultivating open-source talent and enhancing technological innovation in China."
It is reported that the competition established a review committee consisting of 60 technical experts and intellectual property experts, setting up a comprehensive indicator evaluation system across four dimensions: "technological innovation, open-source compliance, community operation, and commercial development." During the final stage, all participating projects underwent professional code composition analysis by the China Software Testing Center, QiAnXin Group, and Suzhou Prism Seven Color Information Technology Co., Ltd., providing an objective basis for the final expert review.
Professor Chen Zhong of the Peking University School of Computer Science, chairman of this year's competition review committee, stated: "Promoting development through competitions has played an extremely important role in many innovative fields, and the open-source field is no exception. It even has broader exemplary significance. It can both encourage developers and related projects to stand out and promote the spirit and culture of open source, killing two birds with one stone."
Song Kewei, head of the competition organizing committee and general manager of Beijing Chuxin Open Source Technology Co., Ltd., said: "The diversity of participating projects is a significant feature of this year's competition. Compared to previous competitions, many individual open-source projects emerged in this year's competition. Although their influence may not be extensive, the maturity of their projects and community activity are very high; some open-source communities spontaneously formed by grassroots developers, such as Dromara, are truly touching with their culture of 'contributing for the love of open source'; there are also projects originating from leading tech companies (e.g., Tencent) and donated to the OpenAtom Open Source Foundation, such as OpenTenbase, which are particularly noteworthy."
Since open source was incorporated into the national "14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 Long-Range Objectives" in 2021, China's open source has officially entered an "accelerated" development stage. China has become the country with the fastest growth in the number of open-source developers globally and the second-largest in terms of total numbers. Open-source innovation has become an important development path for China's core and cutting-edge technologies.
The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "improving the systems and mechanisms for developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions. Promoting revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and in-depth transformation and upgrading of industries, promoting the optimized combination and renewal leap of laborers, means of labor, and objects of labor, giving birth to new industries, new models, and new momentum, and developing productive forces characterized by high technology, high efficiency, and high quality."
The China Internet Development Foundation, the organizer of the competition, has deeply implemented the strategic deployment of building a strong cyber nation, fully utilized the leveraging effect of public welfare funds, and carried out a series of innovation and investment competitions focusing on key technical talent and project innovation. It has successively included an open-source track in the China Internet Development Innovation and Investment Competition in 2022 and 2024. By hosting a series of open-source innovation and investment competitions, it continues to focus on the development of the open-source industry, assists in incubating outstanding open-source projects in China, and contributes to promoting China's information development and consolidating the digital economy.
"Compared to the 2022 competition, the organizing committee expanded the review committee and included the adaptation of open-source projects to domestic chips and operating systems as one of the assessment items, fully demonstrating the competition's strong support for China's信创 (IT application innovation) industry ecosystem. In addition, unlike previous training on investment and financing for winning projects, this year's competition has added financing roadshow promotion activities for high-quality open-source projects, further reflecting the attributes of an 'innovation and investment competition,'" Song Kewei added. "Since 2024, local governments across the country have纷纷出台 (successively introduced) policies to support the open-source industry, providing targeted support for open-source enterprises, open-source projects, and open-source communities. Through these two open-source competitions, we have selected 120 outstanding Chinese open-source projects and more than 500 outstanding open-source talents, distributed in more than 20 cities across the country. Subsequently, we will continue to focus on the cultivation of open-source talent and the incubation of open-source projects."
For the detailed list of winners, see: https://bs.bjos.club/hjgg-n183.html
(Project supported by funds from the China Internet Development Foundation)
About Dromara
Dromara is an open-source community composed of top open-source project authors in China. It provides a series of open-source products, solutions, consulting, technical support, and training certification services, including distributed transactions, popular tools, enterprise-level authentication, microservices RPC, operation and maintenance monitoring, Agent monitoring, distributed logs, and scheduling orchestration. The technology stack is fully open-source and collaboratively built, maintaining community neutrality, and is dedicated to providing microservices cloud-native solutions for global users. It aims to allow every participating open-source enthusiast to experience the joy of open-source.
The Dromara open-source community currently boasts over 10 GVP (Gitee Most Valuable Project) projects, with a total star count exceeding 100,000. It has built an open-source community of tens of thousands of members, with thousands of individuals and teams using Dromara's open-source projects.