Yunqi Conference | Guide to Offline Participants of the Open Source Gravity Summit

Introduction to In various chaotic signals and noises, how does Ali balance between commercial success and the engineer culture represented by open source? How should we understand the relationship between open source and business, the relationship between cloud vendors and open source projects?

About the Open Source Gravity Summit

Today in 2021, the pastoral and classical open source era has passed. The continuation of open source cannot only rely on developers using love to generate electricity in their spare time, but requires companies with self-hematopoiesis ability to feed back commercial gains back to open source for realization. The long-term development of the project. Open source has quietly entered the 2.0 era of commercialization.

Since 2018, open source projects have been highly sought after in the capital market:

• In 2018, Pivotal and Elastic went public with a market value of more than US$5 billion
• In 2019, Alibaba acquired Flink's parent company Data Artisans for 90 million euros
• In February 2021, DataBricks completed US$1 billion in Series G financing, and on August 31, it raised US$1.6 billion in Series H financing.
• In July 2021, Kafka's parent company Confluent went public, with a market value of 114 US dollars
• In July 2021, open source distributed database vendor PingCAP completed a new round of financing with a valuation of US$3 billion
• ……

The relationship between open source projects and cloud vendors has become more and more gunpowder. MangoDB Kafka Redis has revised open source agreements to restrict cloud vendors. Some media have labeled cloud vendors as "open source white prostitutes."

Among many vendors, it seems that it is difficult to find a special existence like Ali. On the one hand, the business of Ali Group has spawned open source projects like Dubbo RocketMQ that have a profound impact on the Chinese Internet industry. On the other hand, it is domestic The largest cloud vendor, so in the various chaotic signals and noises, how does Ali balance between commercial success and the engineer culture represented by open source? How should we understand the relationship between open source and business, the relationship between cloud vendors and open source projects?

The Open Source Gravity Summit, with the theme of "openness, connection, innovation", invites top open source foundations at home and abroad, top open source experts and scholars from top universities, top investment companies, corporate open source practice leaders, and new open source entrepreneurial forces to come together to cooperate on global open source development There will be in-depth dialogues on hot topics such as the Tao of Open Source, open source technology and business model innovation, and open source talent education.

The summit not only included Ali Open Source Representative Jia Yangqing, Ali Cloud Database Open Source Leader Huang Gui, Ant Group Researcher (gVisor author) He Zhengyu, but also invited Ali partner Jiang Jiangwei to release the latest Ali open source strategy, Du Junping, Huang Dongxu, Wu Sheng and other China Open Source Representatives talked freely about the future of cloud computing and open source. CSDN founder Jiang Tao and director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology He Baohong will also make an opening speech at the conference.

The official website of the Open Source Gravity Summit: https://developer.aliyun.com/special/open2021#

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Time: October 20, 2021, 9:30-12:00 am

Venue: D1-103, Area D, International Convention and Exhibition Center, Yunqi Town, Hangzhou

Yunqi Town Guide Map

Best way to enter: Due to the early time of the Open Source Gravity Summit, it is recommended that the audience enter the Yunqi Town Digital Valley from the entrance of Heshan Street in District D. The address of the summit is D1-103.

Epidemic prevention instructions:

According to the latest Hangzhou policy, all participants must undergo a double code check (health code and itinerary code) and temperature measurement when entering the venue.

All personnel who have visited outside Zhejiang Province in the 14 days before the event, as well as all personnel who entered the main forum on the morning of October 19, must hold a valid nucleic acid test negative certificate within 48 hours to enter the venue, and accept nucleic acid reports from all over the country (paper +Electrical). The organizing committee has also set up an on-site nucleic acid testing point. From 13:00 to 18:00 on October 17th, and from 9:00 to 18:00 on October 18th to 19th, the audience can accept the nucleic acid test with a valid attendance certificate.

Detailed epidemic prevention policy read: https://yunqi.aliyun.com/2021/guid

common problem:

1. What is the relationship between the Yunqi Conference and the Open Source Gravity Summit?

Since 2009, the Yunqi Conference has been held for more than ten years and has become one of the most influential science and technology events in the world and even in the world. This year's Yunqi Conference will be upgraded from a technology conference to a "smart technology carnival" gathering technology, industry, academic experts and all technology enthusiasts, comprehensively upgrading from multiple dimensions of scale, online experience, content, and innovative activities. 2 021 Yunqi Conference will last 4 days (October 19-22, 2021), consisting of 100+ sub-forums and an exhibition area of 40,000 square meters. The Open Source Gravity Summit is a blockbuster summit on Day 2. Conference official website https://yunqi.aliyun.com/

2. What are my rights to register for

You can participate in the summit/sub-forum/exhibition of your chosen date

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