Recently, the Apache Foundation, a world-renowned open source community, announced that "Baidu's open source ECharts project was unanimously approved to enter the Apache Incubator." This is Baidu's first project to enter the top international open source community, and it also marks that Baidu Open Source has officially entered the fast lane of open source development.
Before ECharts became an Apache incubator project, it was already a leader in the field of domestic visualization ecology. In recent years, it has been continuously selected as the "Most Popular Chinese Open Source Software of the Year" by Open Source China. , and is widely used by enterprises in various industries, public institutions, and scientific research institutes. The industries involved include finance, education, medical care, logistics, climate monitoring and many other fields, including Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Lenovo, Xiaomi, State Grid, Sinopec, etc.
Zu Ming, the person in charge of ECharts, introduced: “ECharts is an open source visualization library with rich visual chart types and in-depth interaction capabilities. It is easy to configure and easy to use. At the same time, it has thousands of configuration items and different levels of expansion mechanisms. Comes with flexible customization capabilities. The bottom layer of ECharts relies on the open source rendering engine ZRender, which supports multiple rendering methods such as Canvas and SVG, and supports multiple device scenarios such as PC, mobile, large data screen, and server rendering.
Currently, in the new version of ECharts (4) released in early 2018, some commonly used charts already support data visualization of up to tens of millions, and provide support for ECharts-GL based on WebGL, such as small programs and barrier-free access. Supports various 3D chart rendering and rendering acceleration of massive data. Currently, various ECharts-based extension libraries and related visualization service systems have formed a rich product system and active community environment. ECharts currently has 25k+ on GitHub. attention and 2k+ related projects. A large number of community feedback and contributions have enabled ECharts to continuously iteratively evolve. Industry insiders believe that entering the Apache incubator means that ECharts is one step closer to becoming a top open source community product. At the same time, we must adhere to a more inclusive mentality to meet more opportunities and challenges
Tan Zhongyi, head of Baidu’s open source promotion team, also said: “Baidu carries out various activities with an attitude of participating, giving back, and influencing the community. We fully respect and understand the rules and spirit of the open source community. Making ECharts an incubation project of the Apache Foundation is just the beginning. Baidu will continue to cooperate more extensively and deeply with various open source communities. "
ECharts project Champion and mentor Kevin A. McGrail, vice president of the Apache Foundation, said: "It is an honor and a pleasure to participate in the incubation process of the ECharts Apache Foundation project as a Champion. ECharts is a leader in the field of visualization ecology in China. As a leader, we constantly pursue the ultimate and expand functional boundaries, helping more and more companies and users using ECharts to enjoy the convenience brought by visual data analysis, while also promoting the prosperity and development of China's visual ecology. Joining the Apache Foundation further demonstrates ECharts’ determination to embrace open source and create a more neutral, open and diverse community culture based on following ‘the Apache Way’, allowing more people to enjoy the visualization technology revolution brought by ECharts.
It is understood that as a world-class Internet company, Baidu has now become a gold member of the Linux Foundation, a gold member of the CNCF Foundation, a platinum member of HyperLedger, and has organized and established the CockroachDB Chinese community. Currently, as this project enters the incubation process of Apache Incubator, Baidu will strive to promote ECharts incubation and contribute more to the Apache open source ecosystem. It will continue to advocate open source culture and maintain close contact and cooperation with well-known open source communities. , open source more excellent projects, and create a richer Baidu open source ecosystem around developers.