 which is the role of the free and open source software in the digital economy. So please welcome Wairwair. Thank you very much. Yeah, so I'm thankful so that I can start this talk here right at the beginning of the Open Tech Summit. And yeah, free and open source in the digital economy, it's a very large topic, but I want to talk a bit about what we are doing at First Asia and Open Tech in Germany and show you a bit of our projects. So what we are doing, it's these areas here. So open source, when people think about open source, they often think about software, but actually today it's more and more also hardware and it is later. And of course we need to share this knowledge with each other. So it's a lot about knowledge sharing and where does it happen at events. So we try to bring all this together in First Asia. And yeah, how do we do it? How successful are we? How are we doing it? Yeah, works out for us so far. So we all have for example our GitHub repositories here. Where we have on average every 15 minutes and merge pull requests. And we have a lot of people on our mailing lists. And it's actually developers. We focus on developers. More than 4,000 people are registered in the organization. We know it's always easy to create big numbers. But what we see is we also see a lot of constant activity. Sometimes people come, sometimes people go, sometimes they come back again. But we have regular contributions from many people who are registered. And we do coding contests like more than 2,000 developers we train them. Now our goal is also to work together more with people here in China. Because a lot of people are from India, are from Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia. We want to do more here in China. That is also one reason why we cooperate with OpenPS7, Jingu University here at the OpenTech Summit. So those dozens of face-to-face meetings. Many meetups. And we have 100 authors of tech blog articles on our blog. People find it through search engines and that sort of traffic. So what we're doing is we are making free and open source. And open technologies become true. We're really doing it. And here are a little bit more insights. So we started to do events already in 2009. The first event, the first larger event that we ran, was the Global Asia Summit that happened in Vietnam. And it was a huge success. We right away had 1,400 people. That was overwhelming. So we encouraged us to do more. But we do in India, India is very strong in software. And of course they have the advantage that they have English as a mother tongue. Which is always challenging for us who are not native English speakers. I mean, I'm German. It's close to English, relatively easy to learn. But we know some people speak Asian languages. It's a bit further away. So for Indians that is easier. We want to do more regional events. We want to do more local events. So that's the next step. We have good, very active developer community. And if you check out the GitHub charts, there are many different ways to check the activity on GitHub. Then we are one of the top organizations. Let me try this other microphone here. So, for Asians currently number 14 on GitHub, in regards to followers and activity. So you can check this out on organization rankings. So we're here number 14. And further up, of course, I'm going to school with Facebook Microsoft. But we're not so far away. And this is pretty amazing for a community organization. And it's still a company for Asians. A company registered this company in Singapore. But it's more like a company all out of the community. So community is the main thing. And the company helps to develop like products that support the community and that generate income for developers. So we are working on more quality software now. And we have large numbers. We have a lot of people who also need to do more quality. Because a lot of people in the community, they come and their main goal is to learn something. And we're doing very well here. But we want to do more also, actually in regards to developing products that many people can use. So, and as I mentioned earlier, it's not just software today. It's hardware. And yeah, Shenzhen is a great place to be for hardware. We have built the product expertise. And it's not always only about making a software or making a hardware, right? You can always have it on the GitHub repository. But it's really difficult actually then to produce it and to bring it to market. It's nearly as much work. Some people say it's even more work than just developing the hardware. So we have developed this expertise. We know how to work together. Of course, we have an advantage that, for example, a lot of our people in Singapore, they speak Chinese. They can work with Chinese manufacturers much easier. So that's our idea now that we want to do more and more hardware here in Shenzhen, for example. So one of the projects we do in hardware is here, the pocket science lab. Want to give it a round. Pass it around. Pocket Science Lab is an instrument to measure all kinds of things. And the insecure code, we have to get it on the Chinese app stores. This is actually the QR code for the Google Play store. But we have to work together. You can also get it in the Chinese stores. So it's a development. You can have an oscilloscope. You have a multimeter. It's all on the Android app. And we also have a desktop app. You can try it out. So here are a few ideas. Logic analyzer, wave generator, power source, accelerometer, we're constantly adding more and more instruments to this hardware and implement it in the firmware, implementing the software, and also enhancing the hardware in the following versions. So we learned how to produce a device. And actually, we are selling this in Japan. Have you heard about our Japanese fans? Have you heard about the Pocket Science Lab in Japan already? Did you know? Have you heard about it? Because in Japan, it's very popular. They have a lot of hardware geeks in Japan. And we are listed on Switch Science, Takasu Masukasu. He's often here in Shenzhen. Also, maybe some of you know him. So he's helping a lot with bringing this to the community. And the next device that we want to do now, based on this experience, is the neural lab device. It's also a device to do measurements of the brain waves. And there are a few devices out there, but I think we can go much lower in price and enable a much larger community to do neural projects. So how do we do this? As I said, we are small. We are not Google, we are not Microsoft. And we still are able to grow a big community and to have a lot of developers that collaborate with us. So we developed a list of best practices. And here are just a few. So we have very simple rules. And these rules, we communicate them to new developers with our best practices here. And for example, one simple rule is match one issue on the issue tracker with one pull request. Sounds very simple, sounds very easy for somebody who has been a developer for many years. But for newbies, aha, okay. Because they try to do maybe sometimes just a part or they work like three weeks on one issue. And then we'll be like a huge pull request if they then combine several issues, even. So yeah, it will take a very long time to review them. And I could go into detail, but I just want to mention this here. So best practices, maybe we can talk about this also during the event. So what we are working on now is then also more long term partnerships by sharing resources with developers. So we see for example that we have the developers and they follow the best practices, they participate in our calling programs, and then they move on. They move on pretty quickly. We have a lot of people now who work for Google, Facebook, all the big companies, Uber and so on. We have a lot of people previously here in the projects. But what we see unfortunately is that then the engagement drops. As soon as somebody joins a big company, they don't contribute as much as before. Some people stop entirely. This is sometimes even the case because of the contracts they get. They're not even permitted always. They're not allowed to share their knowledge and to participate in the community. And that's sad. So what we want to do is we want to change that. We want to work of course together with companies teach them about the value of participating in the community. And for example, they could hire new people from the community. So that's a possibility. But also like they could participate and collaborate with us on projects. And this is of course the goal here. For example, we have the hardware project with the processor. We talked about yesterday already a bit about how we can collaborate and how we can also work with other companies. So that's our goal. Let's see what we can do. And it's not just about that everyone wants to be employed by a company. Some people also want to have a startup. So we have any startups here in the audience who's working in a startup or with startups. Few hands going up. People want to grow their own projects. They don't just want to be hired by somebody. They want to go home and you know their parents say, wow, yes, cool, I heard this is a great thing. And you know, get this acknowledgement and of course earn an income for their family and for their peers. So what we're trying to do now is we incubate projects. I mentioned Pocket Science Lab. So Pocket Science Lab is now a self-sustaining project. It already earns enough money to pay developers to develop the next version. And that's pretty cool. This one we did without venture capital. So it's all entirely self-funded. One reason is also, to be honest, it's sometimes difficult to get VC. Because the VC has this mindset of I invest in 10 projects and one of these projects has to make this much money that even the other projects fail. I have to make a lot of money to pay off for all these projects. Whereas our goal is more like to build a sustainable ecosystem and companies and projects that continue to develop and where more and more new products come out. Products that help humanity. Products that maybe solve the climate challenge here. The climate change. Yeah, I couldn't mention a lot of things. We have so many problems in this world. I think we shouldn't just leave it to big money. We need to build sustainable projects that help people. So what we will do is we make more projects ready for end users. For example here, Susie AI. It's a project with already more than 300 contributors. I don't know who knows Star Trek here. I don't know how well known it is in China. Who knows Star Trek? Yeah, okay. I don't see that many hands going up. Okay, so I'm getting a bit of an older generation it seems. So it used to be a very cool project. Very cool movies and series. For example here from 1986. From the movie this scene is quite famous where Scotty, the engineer travels back from the future to the past. From the future. And then he is very confused because he tries to communicate with a computer and the computer doesn't answer. He says hello computer and the computer doesn't answer. So what he does is he takes a mouse and he talks into the mouse. So already in 1986 the directors of this movie had this idea that in the future everyone will talk with the computer. There are many other movies where we see this idea. So this idea is already prevalent in the mind of many people. And we have today, of course, Google Home and Alexa Echo and Xiao I always get the tones for them. But you know what I mean, so from different producers and I think we need an open source alternative. That is for example respecting our privacy. So we developed Susie AI and it runs on many devices. And we have a very basic prototype. I know there are many people here in the room who do hardware that will say oh that's not so impressive because our focus is here the software. So we just try to make Susie AI running on standard hardware. So Raspberry PI for example, standard computers. So we make this prototype which is basically just to test the software. But it runs already on many devices. So apart from the smart speaker that I just give a run, it runs on Android, it runs on iOS on the smart speaker itself. Here's how we make it. And we have a content management system where you can upload skills, many different topics already. I have to say you can actually go to susie.ai and try it out. But don't expect this to work every day in like a fully flushed way just like Google Home. So this project is under heavy development and we deploy live to GitHub. So it's always the latest development version and we're constantly fixing things. So this is not really a project that is run as a commercial project yet. But people can try it out, can see what's the current state, what's happening today. So they can go to Susie AI. And we said like it should be easy to put it together. So we make videos online information and it should have more features than like let's say Google Home and Alexa Echo for example. They don't run on the web in the future. If you talk to a computer and then you talk to Google, actually it goes through Google or it goes through Baidu or it goes through any of these big providers and they then find the information for you. Well how we do the internet today is we open a browser and we go ourselves to a web service. But in the future we go to these big providers and they decide what we can see. And they decide oh no this this pizza service is not good. This pizza service we don't support. We support the other pizza service or something like that. You should be able to choose for yourself even like a simple thing like a pizza. Right so so we have it on the web and we have for example here the way to play video on YouTube that's all possible already on the web version. And we say why does it take so long? Why is it so difficult to make skills? Has anyone been trying to make a skill on action like Huawei for example uses Alexa so it's possible here in China to make skills for Alexa. Has anyone tried here to do that? Now not even a single person wow oh you guys have to get into this when we are in Europe sometimes 50 percent of people raise their hands. So that is something I think we can work together on here in China and or maybe for what's that called for Xiaomi, can you actually make skills for Xiaomi? Don't you already? Has anyone tried? Not for Xiaomi for the Xiaomi speaker. Anyone tried? You tried? Yeah you tried and easy, difficult? Difficult? Do you have to deploy on server or you have to deploy on the infrastructure probably a lot of steps. Yeah it's easy but you are like good developer so right I mean isn't it easy just making an Android app for example yeah or a WeChat app something like that. So I think that's something we can talk about more during the event. I would love to learn more about this house and stage here. So we developed the language of thought. We said it should be as easy as editing articles on a wiki. Yeah it's very simple wiki language that's how we should be able to do it. And yeah that's what we do and so how do we get together now? This is the question so we have many events for example here you see the science hack day where we exchange all these topics that are just introduced and we run coding programs so I hope we could run more coding programs maybe here in China also with Pungchang Lab. So what we do is with India for example we run the coding program there and then the top contributors in the coding contest that we run here the coding contest they will receive a price and then they will fly to the First Asia Summit in Singapore. Maybe we could do that here in future in China yeah that the top contributors will prize to come to Shenzhen or come to Beijing and meet up with other developers something like that and we will do more of this of course and we also do here the First Asia Academy that we started in Singapore it's providing yeah government certified courses and of course we focus on free open source only so Marco one of our leaders here in the community you will see in Shenzhen for example did some workshops I think like something participated right I mean something this Python robotics workshop who was there right I think you were also the robotics workshop is Marco yeah right yes yes I remember okay so I'm at the end I have to say open technology is here we have many open tech events and what we also realized just in the last few weeks of the event for example tomorrow there's also a patchy event and then there's also a happy day event also about open source and Liji said oh so many competing events but I think it's really positive we have so much open source so so many so much sharing going on here and that's cool and we want to be a driving force with First Asia here and do more about this so let's make open tech a run an open tech around the world in reality that's all cool thank you very much so maybe it's a little bit late so we will pass the question like you have any question you can always like joining us tomorrow with Mario and so thanks again Mario for the introduction