Chapter 2849 Community Building

Zhou Buqi proposed an open and inclusive approach.

If you want to be a super App, you must not do all the work yourself, that would be too complicated. We should still achieve mutual benefit and win-win results through the sharing of traffic.

This is the same as building an e-commerce platform, just like JD.com.

At the beginning, JD.com only produced self-operated products, but it was difficult to scale up. Later, Jingdong opened up to third-party stores and transferred its own traffic to third-party stores. It only earned some advertising fees and sales commissions on the platform, and the scale of the platform quickly expanded more than ten times.

A super App is equivalent to a platform.

Since it is a platform, it cannot do without "self-operated + third party".

It’s the same as open source services.

For example, RPassion, the large-model deep learning artificial intelligence training model currently promoted by Ziweixing International, the core things are developed by Shen Xiangyang's team themselves, and are the core foundation of Rokid's series of deep learning products.

Free and open, in fact, we want to rely on the vast number of external engineers and scientists to break through technological barriers.

Therefore, RPassion’s current scale and industry status relies not only on Ziweixing. Ziweixing is just an initiator, and the wisdom comes from the entire open source community. While colleagues around the world shared Ziweixing's scientific and technological achievements, Ziweixing also received an "enhanced version" of RPassion, which was then used in other projects, resulting in Rikid-go, a chess game that shocked the world. software.

Just like fishing.

It's about using small fish to catch big fish.

Yahoo App inherits the structure of Yahoo and has many sub-channels. It would be too difficult to do all of these sub-channels well. If we do it, it will only be superficial and make some news.

For example, "Yahoo Music" is mostly news and gossip in the music industry, which is very boring. It is too wasteful to only do such a small business with such a large traffic. However, it would be too difficult to directly develop Yahoo Music in the direction of streaming music, and it would easily be self-defeating. Only by promoting the all-round cooperation between this channel and Spotify can we make a lot of money, not just the advertising fee of the information stream. More importantly, this kind of business arrangement is more user-friendly and allows users to enjoy more top-notch products and services in the Yahoo App.

The partnership with Spotify is just the beginning.

In the future, there will also be third-party services for ticket purchase, hotel, takeout, e-commerce, social networking, payment, insurance, travel, tourism, and sports.

Every time these third-party services are used in the Yahoo App, it is a need for users.

The collection of so much demand data can provide Yahoo with a comprehensive model judgment of market demand, thereby better optimizing the selection of its own products, and even developing a new "first mover" product. For example, in the cooperation between Yahoo Music and Spotify, if it is found that Rihanna's music is very popular in Spotify during a certain period of time, the music information provided by Yahoo Music can also respond quickly to provide users with more information about Rihanna. Music introduction and personal gossip news will become more popular.

This is actually an open source idea.

After this small meeting, Lu Qi seized the opportunity and talked about the open source business of Ziweixing International. The first thing is the good news, "Our Github is now the most popular open source community in the world, with more than 50 million people." Developers, more than 1.2 million organizations and more than 100 million databases, however, we also have one of the strongest competitors.”

"Google?"

Zhou Buqi can basically guess it.

Lu Qi nodded, "Yes, it's Google. Github is a website we acquired at your request a few years ago, and it works very well. But it is Google that has made greater contributions in the open source field, which makes them more competitive in the competition for talents. It has advantages that other competitors don’t have.”

Open source is a more modern thinking.

If the whole world made aviation technology open source, and from the perspective of all mankind instead of the perspective of one country, humans might have landed on Mars long ago.

For this reason, if a company or a certain entrepreneur advocates open source more and opens up more products and services for the advancement of the industry, many industry practitioners will feel that this company or person is great, and they will join them one after another. past.

Larry Page and Elon Musk are both open source geeks.

Zhou Buqi is actually a common man with no open-source feelings.

However, with his identity on the line, he had to bite the bullet.

As the most eye-catching entrepreneur in the global Internet industry, he cannot be like the older generation of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison. He must set an example and represent a new era.

Being an open source advocate not only gives him reputational advantages, but also financial benefits.

Lu Qi smiled and said: "The open source community actually also has great closed value."

"What's the meaning?"

"Just like Github, there are millions of open source products here. There is choice here. Which open source projects should developers around the world participate in? Which open source project has gained more developers? You can grow faster.”

"The advantage of choice!"

Zhou Buqi immediately followed his train of thought.

Lu Qi nodded and said: "Indeed, we now have such a selective advantage. Github is our platform, and we will pay to operate and maintain it. Then Ziweixing's open source products can be displayed more, and we can There are more opportunities for developers around the world to participate.”

This is a little less noble.

Github is a subsidiary of Ziweixing International, so its open source products can get more help from free developers around the world... This is of course a commercial tendency, but it will cause certain harm to the fairness and justice of the open source community. .

Zhou Buqi was a little worried, "It's blatant, isn't it good? Open source is doing good things, so don't cause any controversy."

Lu Qi said with a smile: "We don't show up, so we rely on the guidance of some open source leaders. We only need to recruit these open source leaders from different sectors, and then let them guide the choices of developers around the world."

Zhou Buqi didn't quite understand, "What kind of open source leader? A technical expert?"

"Yes, he is a technical expert, a technical expert who actively participates in the open source community." Lu Qi paused, "Just like the previous forums, different sections have a moderator, and this moderator is more capable. He is also very credible, and he can manage this section to a certain extent. In many free forums, the moderators guide the discussion direction of a section, not the direction of the open source community, mainly by these open source leaders. leading."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "So we need to recruit these open source leaders? Let them guide developers around the world to participate in the construction of our open source projects?"

Lu Ji said: "This has been done. What I want to say is not this, but that after doing this, we will have a deeper understanding of the open source world. I suddenly found that I had no idea about open source before. The understanding is wrong.”

"ah?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised.

Lu Qidao: "In the past, we all believed that open source meant free, and that like-minded developers around the world worked together to accomplish something out of love or ideals."

"Isn't it?"

"Only half right."

"Um?"

Zhou Buqi's cell phone rang. He looked down and saw that it was Zhou Shaoning, but he didn't rush to respond and hung up first.

Lu Qidao: "In these developed countries in Europe and the United States, there are indeed a large group of people who actively participate in the construction of open source communities out of love and ideals. This is because their usual jobs are easy, their salaries are high, and there are a large number of It’s their own time. Many people like to watch TV series and watch movies after get off work, but some people like to make some contributions to the open source community. This is a way of life, and of course it is free.”

Zhou Buqi immediately grasped the key point, "So the construction of open source communities in China is lagging behind, just because of this factor. Lack of own space, I am exhausted at work, and dealing with code every day is enough to make me dizzy. The brain has grown. After some rest, no one is willing to participate in the construction of the open source community.”

Lu Qi nodded and said: "Yes, this is a very important factor. From the construction of the open source community and the distribution of developers, we can judge the economic conditions of a country. For some countries with less developed economies, it is difficult to rely on To attract more developers to join with love, ideals and beliefs.”

Zhou Buqi seemed to understand what he meant, "You mean we should pay these people to participate in the open source community? Pay them to develop our open source projects?"