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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:18 PM, prabin gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Dear all, > > I am very happy to be back home. I arrived on 7th December. The Training > program and visit to Kuala Lumpur was good, interesting and first time > experience. > > To say about the program: It was good. peoples from 15 asian countries were > the participants numbering to total of 54. It was so good to share our > updates regarding FOSS in Nepal and FOSS Nepal. I have attached here the > presentation I have given there at 5th AOSS Masters' Training Workshop. > > From the workshop I collected few things: > 1. Red1 was one person who gave presentation on Open Source ERP > (Adempiere). He well shared his way how open source earns money through > service. and He said another thing: "I believe we are not users(general), so > I do not believe in downloading and using FOSS. I believe in Uploading" . > His words were really influencing... Reach him in: red1.org > > 2. Almost all participant countries of Asia has government office/body to > monitor/govern/develop FOSS. I think its only Nepal which lacks. I really > felt bad about this while hearing others presentations. > > 3. I was very proud to present "Nirvikalpa" there and let Asia know our > initiatives and will-power that without govt body also we have achieved many > things. > > 4. The program was splited to 2 categories: presentation and course > material preparation. I was the coordinator of "Migration Software tools" > course material team. Did some work on that also. > > 5. We convienced CICC through emails and this visit regarding a program > here. CICC is very interested in doing a program here in Nepal with FOSS > Nepal. We are responding to their emails. hope we finalize it soon and > waiting for announcing one more program in this mailing list. > > > Apart from the Program, but as its part we visited "Putra Jaya" and "Cyber > Jaya". First one a planned and model town near Kuala Lumpur for > Administrative purpose; means: all officers, govt. ministries, courts and > all.. and Cyber Jaya is the IT Park.. Tara nepal ko jasto hoina... ;) > Cyber jaya has all MNCs and its local but international acclaimed companies > and IT firms. > > To say about Malaysia, Its abit expensive compare to South Asia. Its a > Europe in Asia. The transportation system is the best thing I liked. (let me > not elaborate this...google it). > > At last, It was fruitful in the sense that I got a live cases of FOSS > initiatives in Asian countries and its challenges. We accomplished what we > were given as course preparation task. So I must say.. Visit was fruitful. > > > > > -- > Prabin Gautam > Open Source Developer > prabin AT prabin DOT net DOT np > Mob: +९7७9८4१२5९00१ > > -- Prabin Gautam Open Source Developer prabin AT prabin DOT net DOT np Mob: +९7७9८4१२5९00१ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
