[osdcmy-public] Re: The Goat Was Nice

[red1]

To recap before blood pressure goes higher thanks to the nice goat meat... 1. An NGO can fulfil gaps in the eco-system for FOSS to partake in commercial environment, which requires: 2. Compliance of service, warranty, and support and such certainty is a form of guarantee that is measured by: 3. Certifiable instruments such as to now proposing Certificate of Procedural Quality as from SIRIM, and Certificate of Advice on FOSS from  Universities. It is a long term process to gain market and community confidence and acceptance and thus the NGO has to: i. Be independent and professional, with membership and input derived from market practitioners and exponents as well as industry players who make demands on standards of such compliance. ii. Facilitate closely the traffic between the role of government, that acts as regulator; with the community, that acts as enthusiasts and supporters of the cause, and the market, that acts as consumer and relevance of FOSS in the long run. iii Catalyse and guide change to the stated objective of high worth human capital and projects branding, so as to bring Malaysia to a world class playing field in order to benefit most parties particularly education, human resource and capital, commercial productivity and increased ROI to meet many important KPIs. FOSS is also subjective and has to interoperate in the marketplace of many proprietary and variegated products and services. In line with FOSS spirit, we are merely offering freedom and choice in a common pursuit of a better quality of life. Government is not known to be a good innovator but rather as a good regulator towards engineering incentives for innovation from the rakyat. Thus OSDC can play the role of identifying good regulations or schemes the government can introduce for adoption and compliance. One safe and long term role is for OSDC to be a reference hub of standards of practice and quality assurance compliance where it can organise studies of good practice, evolve guidelines, house resources to qualify information and FOSS practice particularly in high level enterprise, governmental and ERP projects. For that OSDC can organise specific "FOSS Practice and Standards Conferences" where papers are invited from professional and experts around the world to provide input and exchange views to allow us to improve our understanding from time to time. Resolutions from such events can be forwarded to necessary bodies to adopt and we play the role to assist in such understanding. The long term objective in my humble opinion is when OSDC is recognised as a defacto global standards body on FOSS Implementations. This is to meet a pain or wish-list from the market crying out for best practice and removal of doubt on adopting FOSS. At the moment for example, in any government tender document, you merely have a single clause on FOSS such as "The Application has to be Open Source." without elaborating further. We can propose and act as Advisory PMC with further clauses as: 1. Open Source refers to the present of a vendor being a member of an active and visible community behind the application; 2. Availability of quality technical documentation; 3. Presence of community expertise locally that are known to the global project. Itu saja for now,.. Ya, makan kambing lagi, hormone otak makin cepat lagi :) Harisfazillah Jamel wrote: TQ bro for coming. Your high level view adalah dihargai... Susah tul hendak cernakan. Tapi saya dapat faham apa yang hendak disampaikan. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: Yesterday breaking of fast, we were treated to Arabic Restaurant - Saba's rooster and lamb feast. Definitely much better than the goat in my neighbouring farm. Teringat pula ada lagi ke kambing tu. Just to say many syukran to Riz, Rafe and gang. Now i can see better the OSDC flow. :) red1   --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---