Yup, sure. The spokespersons :-
• Mohd Fazli Azran of the Open Source Developers Club • Professor Dr. Md Gapar, Vice President, Faculty of Info Science & Engineering, Management & Science University • Dr. Albert Wong, Chief Technology Officer, Jobstreet Malaysia • Alan Ho, Senior Manager, Services Marketing, Red Hat APAC Media :- 1. PC.com 2. Berita Harian 3. New Straits Times 4. Harian Metro The objective of the media interview:- • Establish the importance and need for IT graduates and professionals to enhance their skill sets in open source, cloud computing and virtualisation to move towards a high-income economy. • Identify value added benefits to IT graduates and professionals as well as trends amongst IT employers. • Identify available certification programmes which provide local graduates with opportunities to expand their skill sets and talents worldwide. • Announce the formation of the Open Source Developers Community and its goals to ensure the healthy, sustainable and accredited growth of open source skill sets and professionals in Malaysia. Fazli Azran explained on OSDC.my, recent activities and what’s OSDC.my’s planning. There is an urgent need to increase the number of accredited open source professionals in the industry to meet growing demands. The establishment of the Open Source Development Community serves to ensure that the quality of open source professionals is not compromised by establishing set standards which are agreed upon by acadamia, industry players as well as the open source community itself. Prof Gapar elaboration on the concept of open source and what are the benefits of it. There is a high demand in OSS. MSU’s OSS implementation in their education syllabus. Dr Albert explains more on the supply and demand in OSS. Reseach by Jobstreet indicates that there is a definite increase in demand amongst employers for graduates and professionals who have undergone specific technical skills training in open source, virtualization and cloud computing, which marks an important shift in human capital demand in the IT industry. Dr Albert also mention Jobstreet as a case study where Jobstreet also use Open Source Technology. Alan Ho explains on Red Hat’s involvement in the OSS community. Technical skills like IT training and certification add value to the marketability of IT graduates and professionals alike. The needs of small and medium company, large company etc. Virtualization and cloud. Well, this is just a part of the discussion. Will spare some time to update more. Regards, Yun On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks yun and OSS friends for arranging this. > > Can you provide notes what had been discuss during the press interview? > > Who attending? > > Today is the starting point for more from companies, government > agencies, universities and community them self to join and establish > official OEC for our platform and forum to discuss and lobbying OSS > education. > > We need to have TT session with others in our community to help us > making this happen. > > Thanks. > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Najah <khairunna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > we are currently in a media interview to promote this. the spokes > > persons are from osdc.my(community), jobstreet(HR professional), MSU > > (education) and Redhat(oss vendor). > > > > will update on the details later. > > > > :) > > > > Yun > > > > On 12/13/10, Harisfazillah Jamel <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Team > >> > >> Its take some time for Yun and Fazli with the help from other friends > >> (Thanks) in the industry to get this idea moving. 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