Richard Lin
Richard Lin is an open source community builder and ecosystem researcher who has worked across Taiwanese, Chinese, and global open source communities for over a decade. He began contributing to open source in 2009 through Taiwan’s COSCUP community and later worked on open source governance research at Academia Sinica.
After moving to mainland China, he co-founded KAIYUANSHE, one of the earliest grassroots open source communities in China and the first Chinese community to join the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Richard has been involved in organizing open source conferences, community programs, and cross-border collaboration efforts inspired by the FOSDEM tradition.
He currently focuses on open source ecosystems in the data and AI infrastructure space, with a particular interest in how open source evolves under different economic, policy, and market constraints.
Events
| Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why Open Source Looks Different in China: When Vendor Strategies, Policy Signals, and Market Pressure Converge |
Sunday | H.2215 (Ferrer) | /dev/random | 13:00 | 13:15 |