hihihi.... my name and my employer tak scrambled jugak ke ... anyway, hopefully we can get lots more people invoived.
red1... tak nak tukar from java to python ke ? i get a little uneasy looking at oracle logo being plastered on java.com On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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