After the Internet transitioned from informatization to digitalization, software has more profoundly changed people's production forms. The boundaries of IT are gradually expanding outward, including more and more non-professional IT personnel into the ranks of "programmers", and

After the Internet transitioned from informatization to digitalization, software has more profoundly changed people's production forms. The boundaries of IT are gradually expanding outward, including more and more non-professional IT personnel into the ranks of " programmers ", and software definition has become a hot word. In this process, open source has also received more and more attention from enterprise IT workers. Open source systems represented by OpenStack, Kubernetes and Linux have become the tools chosen by many enterprise organizations to develop cloud platforms.

open source is not only a way to develop software, but also represents a modern culture and ecology of sharing and co-construction. Red Hat is the world's largest open source company. The construction of open source community has been throughout Red Hat's more than 20 years of development. The construction of an open source community is inseparable from the active participation of young student groups. Over the years, Red Hat has held a series of open source innovation competitions on campus, integrating open source courses into teaching based on teaching needs, promoting teaching through competitions, and promoting the spread of open source industry-university culture in universities.

Zou Shenglin, Technical Director of Wuhan Yutian Internet Technology Co., Ltd.

Recently, Zou Shenglin, Technical Director of Wuhan Yutian Internet Technology Co., Ltd., accepted an exclusive interview with Saidi.com and talked about the Red Hat Challenge and the spread of China's open source culture. Zou Shenglin has been engaged in IT work for nearly 20 years and has more than ten years of IT-related teaching experience. He is one of the first IT people to witness the open source culture taking root in China. Since his first contact with the Red Hat Challenge eight years ago, he has been full of expectations for the future of Red Hat and open source technology. He is also the only Red Hat currently awarded the "Best Certified Instructor in Red Hat Greater China".

Zou Shenglin said that the exam questions in the Red Hat Challenge each year basically represent the most mainstream technologies in the industry that year. Participating in this competition will help students understand the development trends of the industry, and it will also allow more aspiring young people to learn about open source and join the open source team. Zou Shenglin insists on mutual learning through teaching. In his long-term teaching practice, he suggested that the school increase the learning time of open source Linux technology as an important part of the talent training plan.

In fact, the introduction of open source into campuses is not only actively promoted by Red Hat, the leading open source company, but also many leading Internet companies have joined in to promote the popularization of open source culture and industry-university in colleges and universities. For example, on World Programmers Day not long ago, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation took the lead and worked with and Tencent to formulate the Open Atomic School Source Charity Project. The project has attracted a large number of universities such as Peking University , Tsinghua University , and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to join. Relying on the good open source foundation and student quality of these universities, open source will be integrated into the school curriculum system to allow students to increase open source experience and accumulate practical experience. Zou Shenglin believes that open source technology is still relatively boring for beginners and has a certain threshold, so the role of lecturers is critical. They need to convey knowledge to students through various easy-to-understand methods combined with stories to make them interested in learning. And once you get started, it's easy to keep learning.

As for the Red Hat Challenge itself, Zou Shenglin hopes that more awards can be set, preferably to provide participants with internship and employment opportunities, increase exposure in the media, and to cooperate with various partner companies to give award-winning students more opportunities to personally participate in open source projects.

breaks boundaries, actively shares, and collaborates on innovation, which is the most valuable revelation to human society in the digital age. A successful open source project is usually inseparable from market promotion and ecological support. On the road to open source, Red Hat will gather strength in the form of openness to achieve "technical co-construction" and play a greater role in agile development, DevOps and continuous delivery, as well as cloud computing and innovation. (Text/Xu Peiyan)