DISCLAIMER - This is not a rant. If it ever deviated to such a lowly
state, please ignore and do not read further.
LANGUAGE PREFENCE - I will try to sitck to the Indonesian Java -
Manglish with a smackering of colloqial Javanese.
Ok,waras! Alkisahnya, one day in September 2006 i was ask to head the
ADempiere project which maintain an Open Source ERP that is top ranked (
last month's SourceForge update statea it as No.2 worldwide most active
project). Not bad for a Malaysian eh? Yeah, right. So i was paraded
around by local Malaysians such as Hasanudin (IBM now ex) to KPerak in
late 2006 (Tajol Rosli was MB, now ex) (and another ex (Nizar) after that).
In their first meeting at PJ Hilton which i was requested to attend, the
KPerak exco of Tan Sri Noraidah (names not accurate to protect the
innocent) and Dato Yacoob Nordin told me how frustrated they are with
MDec and MAMPU's slowness that they went together with Dato Zamri (then
Exco IT now MB) to ExtraMadura of Sepanyol to see how Debian works in
schools. And when i presented ADempiere as a higher layer ERP, they drop
that and switch to my project as a top agenda that they can proudly say
"Malaysia Boleh - Buatan KPerak".
KPerak issued me a letter of intent that they will setup an ADempiere
Centre in KPerak. However that did not materialise. Or so it seems until
lately when they just changed their CEO. More on that later.
Then came MDec. I was always wondering about that Pau Lady poster up
there at the MDec's HQ in CyberJaya saying 'from 500 to 5,000 paus a
day'. It is a curious case because not only is that Pau Lady using any
of the 7 MSC Flagship Applications such as the IC and Passport chip
which would make a better facade, but she is using FaceBook, not a good
case of locally created app.
So i have to spit out the sireh i tengah kunyah one subuh when i
received news that MDec was organising OSCONF 2009 and inviting Google,
Phyton and other global greats not not the top ranked SourceForge
project, ADempiere. I wrote to Riz which immediately 'boleh, boleh' and
so at last i end up on the front page of Star's Intech cover story.
Great isn't it? Yeah, so did my goat!
And curiously, MDec did nothing after that. Even its RM10million
promise. Later i learnt that it really has run out of funds and everyone
has to wait for R-M-K-Ten. Well, hopefully BN does not end its winning
streak or else there will be too many ex-es and new guys may take over
in MDec and KPerak and i have to sell my goat story all over again from
scratch. That is why i am pening this story here so that its rendered to
posterity.
Now before i go back to Ipoh, i want to visit another place in
PutraJaya. Last month i got a call from MAMPU's OSCC's Nicholas Suppiah
(again, name is scrambled) that a top govt agency is asking for
ADempiere reference in USA, China or Singapore to visit. I agreed for
the call to come thru and i ended up speaking to Jabatan Akauntan Negara
(again, name scrambled) that they are sick of paying high SAP license
fees (hmm.. let me guess. R-M-K-Nine has no more money?). So i agreed to
assist provided they pay me in R-M-K-Ten. They agreed and will write me
a letter that for the moment i will assist Pro Bono. Well, i can trust
AG Dept more cos they wont change heads when the govt of the day
changes. X fingers and touch kayu pokok.
Now KPerak new CEO 2 months ago call on me. He told me that he has
followed me since the first time i was in KPerak when he was down the
line and with the new MB's lineup his name was slotted to be the new
CEO. He told me how he tak berani buka mulut because he is down the line
but now that he is on the line he shall take up the damn ADempiere
initiative again. Hmm.. no wonder some MDec officials down the line are
bit quiet. Hope they beome the new CEO one day and call on me! :) hehe,
yeah right!
So Dr. Kamil, the new KPerak CEO lay down the cards. KPerak needs help.
It has no tenants nor talent. It has budget, it has capex. Again, what
am a top project leader who lives on the farm to do? I can't even eat my
goat cos its my jiran's goat. I borrowed it for the Star photographer to
snap a farm looking photo.
So i suggested to KPerak to become the reference hub for AG Dept
prorotyping of its govt ERP system. And i will suggest versa to AG Dept
tomorrow to agree to that. Last Thursday at KPerak, Dr. Kamil requested
me to present this idea to its board next month, with the words, "Just
Do It" (Nike trademarked). I like those words. Reminded me of another
ex.. our ex, ex PM, Tun Dr. Mahathir.
I have invited KrimNet to be part of it too as Raja Iskandar is not only
an Accountant by qualification but also tengah dapat Masters kot dalam
Economics Intelligence, and has MSC status as well as current projects
in MOF on mapping komodities selain dari kambing atas permukaan bumi and
Perak has e-tanah and e-govt needs.
Are there other companies that you all can recommend to join in the
presentation and help out with the Perak Open Source Initiatve? Sila
check jika ada:
1. Must be MSC Status
2. Must not be kedekut - kambing saya nak makan apa?
3. Must be based on ADempiere as the horizontal framework
4. Must have innovative ideas that has real commercial relevance cos
KPerak is a cost centre and need long term sustenance if we are to buyin
the stakeholders there.
-END OF RANT-
So this ends my Curious Case of Butang Gomen (The governmental buttons)
which tells you that if you do not know which buttons to press you may
not leave the ground floor. Hmm.. actually it is not a bitching piece.
More of a pitching. So now.. allow me.. to press.. the .. Send Button! :)
Redhuan D. Oon
the SOP not the SOB.
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