ZTE Corporation, the company that positions itself as a global leading provider of ICT solutions, recently announced that Meng Wei, who is currently the Director of Standards and Open Source Strategy of ZTE, was elected as the new Chairman of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation Artificial Intelligence and Data (LF AI & Data).
The foundation is a non-profit technology syndicate which was founded back in 2000. Its main objectives are to standardise Linux, support its growth and as well as to promote its commercial adoption. Moreover, the company hosts and promotes the collaborative development of open source software projects.
The Linux Foundation established the Networking Foundation (LFN), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Artificial Intelligence and Data Foundation (LF AI & Data), the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), and more, quite successfully. LF AI & Data was established back in March 2018 by the Linux Foundation, and it consists of 55 global cross-industry members.
LF AI & Data’s mission is to build and support an open artificial intelligence (AI) and data community, and to also drive open source innovation in the AI and data domains by allowing collaboration and as well as the creation of new opportunities for all the members of the community.
The charter of the LF AI & Data Governing Board states that the election of the new chairman took place from the 4th to the 24th May, including the process of nomination, declaration, voting and appointment. Wei is an esteemed expert from ZTE, and he has garnered more than half of the support in the voting and emerged as the successful candidate for the chairman position.
As an expression of his gratitude, in his speech Wei said: “As a practitioner who has been committed to the development of open source technology for a long time, I am well aware of the great contributions the Linux Foundation has made in promoting the development of open source technology and promoting co-operation in the open source community. I am honoured to be a member of the LF AI & Data. Over the years, every step of LF AI & Data has been writing the history of its rapid growth, and the work has been fruitful and influential. As the Chairman of the Governing Board of the LF AI & Data, I will do my best to continue to promote this work and lead LF AI & Data to better serve the open source community.
The selection of the new Chairman of LF AI & Data signifies the broad recognition of ZTE’s influence in the open source community globally. “Embracing open source, compliant use, active contribution and giving back to the community” embody ZTE’s open source culture.
ZTE has been actively involved in a lot open source foundations and open source activities around the company’s main products very early on. As one of the founding members of the Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation (predecessor to LF AI & Data), in 2018 ZTE made outstanding contributions to the creation and development of LF AI & Data.
Then in 2019 ZTE incubated project Adlik which is now used for the inference side tool chain in LF AI & Data, attracting dozens of companies at home and abroad to participate in community ecological construction.
ZTE is committed to supporting the work of the Linux Foundation, as well as actively giving back to the community, integrating into the open source ecosystem and enhancing connection and mutual trust within the industry.
