China is counting on senior members of the open-source community to help formulate policy ideas to promote open-source software, according to a local software executive.The China Open-Source Software Promotion Union (COPU), a government-backed industry group, has established a think tank composed of 19 prominent open-source executives from overseas to develop a framework for better international cooperation.The group will hold its first meeting in Beijing during July and will meet annually, said Song Kewei, the assistant to COPU’s chairman. Its primary focus is to advise COPU on how local companies and the government can promote the adoption and development of open-source software in China, he said.Among those that have agreed to participate in the group are Brian Behlendorf, cofounder of the Apache Web Server Project; David Axmark, cofounder and vice president of MySQL; Marc Fleury, founder and chief executive officer of JBoss; and Andrew Morton, the maintainer of Linux kernel version 2.6. -Sumner Lemon, IDG News ServiceFor related news coverage, read China’s Baidu, IBM Team Up for Lotus Notes Search. Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe