Dec 2006, open source software professional committee which is managed by Shanghai software testing center come into existence. The concrete works of professional committee is to build property development environment, create open source software development ambience, attach importance to government’s lead, breed open source intermediate service, encourage development open source community, promote open source international communication and speed up education of open source. We take application path to promote main product which realizes open source. we?establish Linux production testing platform, surrounding of software and hardware form a complete set, recommended list of excellence open source software product and demonstrate project of open source application.

Now, there are many companies which have join the committee, such as East China normal university, East China Research Institute of Computer Technology, China Standard Software, SVA , shanghai embedded systems institute, CHENOVA, WANDA group, East China computer, and Shanghai Information Household Appliance Trade Association, etc.