2023 COSR

KAIYUANSHE

KAIYUANSHE is a non-profit, vendor-neutral, open-source community formed in 2014. It comprises individual volunteers who contribute towards the cause of open source. The community envisions being "rooted in China, contributing globally, and promoting open-source as a way of life in the new era." Its mission is to achieve "open-source governance, global connection, community development, and project incubation." Its community governance principles are to practice "Contribution, Consensus, and Collegiality." The community's goal is to create a healthy and sustainable open-source ecosystem.

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Yunqi Partners

Yunqi is a research-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 in China. Its investment focuses on technology innovation and industry empowerment, covering various areas such as advanced manufacturing, enterprise software, cutting-edge technology, and industrial supply chain technology.Yunqi has been consistently ranked among China's Top 10 Best Early Stage Investment Firms by Zero2IPO, China Venture, and 36Kr. As an early-stage lead investor, Yunqi has invested in over 170 startups, out of which 30 have emerged as industry leaders, including Qifu Technology (NASDAQ:QFIN), Intco Medical (SZ:300677), Intco Recycling (SH:688087), Kujiale, Baibu, Deeproute.ai, MiniMax, KEENON Robotics, XTransfer, Worldwide Logistics, and Takfung. Besides, Yunqi also collaborates in co-creating the open-source ecosystem and has led investments in PingCAP, Zilliz, Jina AI, RisingWave, TabbyML, and several other open-source firms. Along with KAIYUANSHE, it has produced the open-source commercialization chapter of the China Open Source Annual Report in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

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X-lab

X-lab Open Lab is a community dedicated to open-source research and innovation. It comprises experts, scholars, and engineers from domestic and international universities, startups, and various Internet and IT companies. They focus on open innovation in the open-source software industry and come from diverse professional backgrounds, including computer science, software engineering, data science, business administration, sociology, economics, and other interdisciplinary fields. They have been practicing open source strategy, open source measurement, open source digital ecosystem, and other related topics for a long time. The group has significantly contributed to open-source governance standard development, open-source community behavior metrics and analysis, open-source community process automation, and open-source domain-wide data governance and insights.