CSDN is a tech forum/news site, kinda like Techcrunch. It has been around for quite a few years. This github like thingi seems like a joint effort between CSDN and Tencent, whose open source projects (currently six of them) can be found at <a href="https://code.csdn.net/Tencent" rel="nofollow">https://code.csdn.net/Tencent</a>.<p>Traditionally, China doesn't have a strong open source culture and Github was being blocked every now and then. Hopefully a Github clone backed by big players can change that.
I wonder what sort of technologies are popular in China. Heard rumors that there was a thriving golang community there, but that's literally the extent of my knowledge.
GitCafe is more like a straight up clone of GitHub: <a href="https://gitcafe.com/?locale=zh-CN" rel="nofollow">https://gitcafe.com/?locale=zh-CN</a>
I used to think that the Chinese copied things that other people did because they wanted to make a living off of it. But lately I've been wondering if there's (1) a culture-wide case of not-built-here-ism, (2) a fear of doing things differently, and last but not least (3) the fact interactions in Chinese culture seem remarkably and subtlely different from interactions in Western culture.<p>(1) explains why they would clone something as mundane (and not wildly profitable) as github (as linked elsewhere in these comments).
(2) explains why I have heard Singaporean friends from school say, lets make a Singaporean Yelp! Westerners say, lets make a yelp for <different purpose>.
(3) explains why they would want their own forums and "public spaces."<p>These reasons seem as plausible (and a lot less malicious) than merely, the Chinese copy everything for fun and profit (even though there are elements of that elsewhere), and I think it's worth thinking about these differences in culture, because it helps us look into our own faults.
It has everything--except for an ex employee to "open source" a sexual harassment and hostile workplace scandal on social media [1].<p>1. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/22/the-github-scandals-bizarre-transparency/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/22/the-githu...</a>