UbuntuKylin steals the show at OCOW Summit

On 28-29 June, the eighth Open Source China – Open Source World Summit, sponsored by China OSS Promotion Union (COPU), occurred in Beijing at Beihang University¹.

UbuntuKylin was the talk of the conference. The UbuntuKylin project is a collaborative effort between CSIP,² Canonical and NUDT.³ Initially released in April 2013, UbuntuKylin is an official Ubuntu flavour that will follow the Ubuntu six-monthly release cycle.

UbuntuKylin was awarded the Number 1 China Open Source Project for the year. Dr Qiu ShanQin, President of COPU, mentioned the establishment of the CCN as one of the most important achievements to Chinese Open Source Industry in 2013. Jack Yu of NUDT, Project Manager of UbuntuKylin project, was named in the 2013 Top 10 Open Source Outstanding People in China. Dr Wu QinBo, the Dean of NUDT Computer Research Lab, presented the UbuntuKylin project and its impact to Chinese Software industry to the audience.

Also at the event, Mark Shuttleworth delivered a keynote to introduce Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch to attendees.

Footnotes

¹ www.copu.org.cn/en/node/955

² China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre, a division of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

³ National University of Defense Technology

⁴ Media Report: special.csdn.net/ocow2013/index.html