How We Attracted 2,800 Participants at a Open Source Conference — COSCUP 2020 Day 2 Highlight
Missed the exciting agenda and booth activities on Day 1, or want to savor the atmosphere of the first day? Check out our Day 1 Highlights.
The second day of the conference started with the introduction of today’s exciting agenda by ANT.
Evan You, the creator of the front-end framework Vue.js, which the COSCUP team has been inviting since 2018, finally appeared. He shared with us why it always takes a long time to upgrade the major version of open source projects, and the technical difficulties and design trade-offs involved.
In the “Open Source AI” track, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes from Mozilla discussed in a world where algorithms dominate our lives, how the development of AI can take lessons from the open-source, and continue to innovate by following the four principles of the free software movement.
In the “Embedded Linux” track, we invited the open-source licensing expert, Cheng-hsia Lin. He explained how the GPL license has improved to fix the problem that the source code is useless under DRM protection in GPL-2.0, and the improvement of Tivoization proposed in the new GPL-3.0. At the same time, Lin also shared the various practical processing modes and how users can meet GPL-3.0 authorization compliance.
The browser technology, which was originally open and free, has become a tool in the invasion of privacy due to commercial interests in the past decade. In the “MyData” track, Richard Lee explained what the major browsers are doing to protect consumer data, as well as the current drafts proposed by the W3C / IAB and its future development direction.
kakashi from the Effective Go community has observed that many open source projects are relatively mature, making it difficult for people new to the community to find a way to get involved. Therefore, kakashi shared how it is easier for beginners to contribute and the process of learning from participation.
The development of scientific software often requires deep domain knowledge. Based on his experience in participating in Google’s open source project Cirq, tai271828 shared how to learn and participate in scientific open source projects without having a degree in the related field.
Children’s education cannot wait! In addition to the agenda for adults, this year’s conference also featured the COSCUP kids agenda. The kids’ agenda includes two days of rich courses, DIY classes, experiential games, etc., so that our little open-source friends can learn new things while their parents are out. At the same time, we also had a visit from the famous rabbit, Tabby Rabbit, and it made all the kids screaming with excitement~
As the event came to an end, it’s time for the annual amazing and hilarious Lightning Show! This year, we changed the location to the largest main auditorium to allow more people to come in to see the show. But it was so packed that the doors were on the verge of bursting!
This year’s event finally ended successfully! At the closing ceremony, Denny, the General Director mentioned that the positioning of COSCUP is 40% listening to the agenda, and 60% making friends. With no required registration process this year, new open-source friends had more opportunities and willingness to come out and join the event. They can easily catch many legendary experts in the corridor at any time.
Also, the General Director Denny mentioned that due to the impact of the pandemic this year, COSCUP had less corporate sponsorship. So the COSCUP team is very grateful to the passionate and open-source individuals who sponsored COSCUP personally to support the conference at this difficult time. The COSCUP team couldn’t do this so successfully without their help!
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