Chapter 2849 Community Building

Zhou Buqi proposed an open and inclusive idea.

If you want to build a super app, you must not do all the work by yourself, that would be too complicated. You should still share traffic to achieve mutual benefit and win-win.

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

At the beginning, JD.com only sold self-operated products, but it was difficult to scale up. Later, JD.com 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 platform scale quickly expanded by more than ten times.

Super App is equivalent to a platform.

Since it is a platform, it cannot be separated from "self-operated + third party".

It is the same as open source services.

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

Free and open, in fact, is to rely on external engineers and scientists to break through technical barriers.

Therefore, RPassion can have its current scale and industry status, relying not only on Ziweixing. Ziweixing is just an initiator, and the crystallization of wisdom comes from the entire open source community. While the peers around the world shared Ziweixing's scientific and technological achievements, Ziweixing also got the "enhanced" version of RPassion, and then applied it to other projects, and thus there was Rikid-go, a chess software that shocked the world.

It's like fishing.

It's using small fish to catch big fish.

Yahoo App inherited the structure of Yahoo and has many sub-channels. It's too difficult to do all these sub-channels well. If you do it, at most you can just do the fur and make some news.

For example, "Yahoo Music" is at most news and gossip in the music circle, which is very boring. It's too wasteful to have such a large traffic but only do such a small business. However, it would be too difficult to directly let Yahoo Music develop in the direction of streaming music, and it would be easy to make things worse. Only by promoting the all-round cooperation between this channel and Spotify can we make big money, not just the advertising fees of that little information flow. More importantly, such a business arrangement is more user-friendly and allows users to enjoy more top-level products and services in Yahoo App.

Cooperation with Spotify is just the beginning.

In the future, there will be third-party services for ticket purchase, hotel, take-out, 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 demand of users.

With so much demand data gathered together, Yahoo can provide a wide range of market demand model judgments, so as to better optimize its own products and even develop a new product that is a "first mover". For example, in the cooperation between Yahoo Music and Spotify, if it is found that Rihanna's music is very popular in Spotify for a period of time, then the music information provided by Yahoo Music can also respond quickly, providing users with more music introductions and personal gossip about Rihanna, which will be more popular.

This is actually the open source idea.

After this small meeting, Lu Qi seized the opportunity and talked about the open source business of Ziweixing International. First of all, it was good news, "Our Github is now the most popular open source community in the world, with more than 50 million developers, more than 1.2 million organizational structures and more than 100 million databases. However, we also have a most powerful competitor."

"Google?"

Zhou Buqi could basically guess it.

Lu Qi nodded, "Yes, it's Google. Github is a website we acquired according to your request a few years ago, and it works very well. But Google has made greater contributions in the field of open source, which gives them an advantage that other competitors do not have in the competition for talent."

Open source is a more modern way of thinking.

If the whole world opens up aviation technology, from the perspective of all mankind rather than the perspective of their own country, perhaps humans would have landed on Mars long ago.

For this reason, if a company or an entrepreneur advocates open source more and opens up more products and services for the advancement of the industry, many industry practitioners will think that this company or this person is great, and thus flock to it.

Larry Page and Elon Musk are both open source maniacs.

Zhou Buqi is actually a vulgar person, and he doesn't have much open source sentiment.

However, his identity is here, and he has to bite the bullet.

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

Becoming an advocate of open source not only gives him a reputational advantage, but also benefits in terms of interests.

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

"What do you mean?"

"For example, Github has millions of open source products. There is selectivity here. Which open source projects should developers around the world participate in? The open source project that has more developers can grow faster."

"Advantage of selectivity!"

Zhou Buqi immediately followed his thoughts.

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 so blatant, isn't it? 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 technology 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 discovered 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 people 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?"