This time, however, he did not make the news because of fantasy literature, but because of his volunteer work on the Internet, a realm that knows no borders. Chu has assembled 700-some Chinese volunteers to participate in a massive project aimed at translating the contents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) into Chinese.
只是，這次不是因奇幻之名上報，而是由於他的網路志工新身分，竟然在無國界的網路中，號召了來自全球各地的華人志工共七百多位，為美國麻省理工學院（MIT）的開放式課程計畫（OOPS）進行中文化的巨大翻譯工程。