Azrul, thanks for the Ubuntu proof. In a way before Mark Shuttleworth
throw in some dimes into the Linux pot, it was a world devoid of
Ubuntu. Imagine that IBM was a heavy investor of Linux but where did
the money or focus go? Of course into heavy server-side that it holds
dearly close to its money chest but not for the simple user in the
street.
Thus it proves very clearly that a single 1 shot can do wonders, what
IF the same happens with ADempiere? If a millionaire just say, 'heck,
here is some dimes' to us.
In fact ADempiere enjoys that in some way. Kai Schaeffer who was here
on MDec's ticket was such millionaire businessman who donated to host
ADempiere Berlin Conferences. He also contributed the Windows Installer
where its truly next, next, finish for us. He forms the ADempiere
Deutschland e.V when i asked him to.
As for here in Malaysia, thank Allah that there is hope. I am confident
the few unis taking their grants and backing me (thus the CREATE idea
is actually for them). I have a good offer now, but i am not
desperate.. just a few more slides and i shall nail it. Your name is in
it too! :)
On your supportive pitch to MDec, thanks alot. I was trying to give
some merdeka joy to them. It is this extra mile or 14 miles to be exact
to reach the Kuang farm!
I am not a good salesman. If there is some way i can tell MDec to tell
the PM that MDec has done too much. It only has to change one small
wire and THIS IS IT!
If this gets to the PM it is not nice as it can be seen as potong
jalan. I have retired from politics. I just want to bring up my
country. Period.
Azrul Hasni MADISA wrote:
One market we should also focus on is the small time
organization market (note it doesn't have to be SMEs, it could be your
Persatuan Pekebun Kecil whatever somewhere). I really hope Adempiere
could follow the ubuntu model. Call it "The ERP for the rest of us".
1) Single CD + a few clicks install
2) Dead simple to use
3) Integrated with online services (for example, for organizations, a
link to ROS, for SME, maybe to LHDN etc.)
4) Mobile components
5) Dead simple addons - ala Android Marketplace
Then, just like Ubuntu skyrocketed Linux from the backwaters of OSS,
can Adempiere make most Malaysian realize the importance of an ERP.
And thus the Center Red1 proposes.
And frankly, just like Canonical has fulltime employees, so should the
Center. Volunteers have done wonders for Adempiere, imagine what people
can put in if they focus 100% of their working energy on it.
This is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity for MDeC*. I, as an
individual, do not necessarily need this center. I can earn my living,
work my way the usual way and have a happy life and family. Worst case
scenario, I just move out of this country (and lately I've been
thinking more and more about doing just this) and I'm sure any talented
Malaysian dev. out there are in the same situation. MDeC, please
listen... and I'll try to be as polite as possible, we, as developers
can survive well enough if Red1's center is not created. We'll find
jobs, we'll raise our family and earn enough to pay for a vacation once
in a while. We do not need the center per se, but Malaysia, as a
country, and MDeC as the caretaker of the country's ICT, SOOO DO NEED
IT. If not, 100 years from now, in our history books, MDeC would
probably be just a footnote somewhere instead of a whole chapter if
this center is not set up. Frankly, I'll be patient and see if MDeC
takes the challenge that Red1 proposed, but this is probably the final
straw. If not, a whole bunch of us are probably would leave the
Malaysian OSS scene and probably the county.
*If you are an MDeC employee, please do not think of my rant as an
attack on you personally. I do think that people in MDeC are also
individuals who choose to work with MDeC when they can pour their
talent somewhere else. Heck, I know a few good people in MDeC who were
courted by oversea companies and yet they decline the offer for the
love of the country. If anything, they are more into it then us
developers. I believe that people in MDeC are heroes but some of the
policies are real time-wasters.
Azrul Sensei
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, red1 <[email protected]>
wrote:
After a short struggle this year long, i can now smile that at least few
people can now come up to me and say,
"Mr. Redhuan. I finally am enlightened of what the hell you been
screaming about. FOSS is not about the code. It is about branding in a
blue ocean."
Inspired by such new taliban, I spent these 2 days writing up a simple
plan for us to consider as Malaysia's Gift to the world.
http://www.red1.org/MSC8.pdf
It is exported from AppleMac Keynote (manyak dasyot the animation, so if
you really wana see the movie, belanja me free teh tarik).
So please discuss or vote for acceptance and make it our key flagship.
Whether it become reality or not we leave to Allah. Our tugas is done.
WARNING: If you do not vote or counter then your tugas to
Allah/Karma/Tao/Money is not done. In a few years its 2012, possibly a
magnetic pole shift, sending chaos and 90% world population to alam
lain. Mana tahu, Malaysia is the next superpower to continue in the new
alam. :)
red1
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