Red1 The adhoc committee is here red1. Its all of us in this list. What we are doing now in this list and discussion and meetup is the kick ass, to the government.
But we are doing it in our way. We need to show to GOV that OSS community is here. We need to have workshops of OSS knowledge sharing across Malaysia, we need to have IPTA and IPTS to have OSS day, we need to get big conference one a year going at our own "tahrir square", we need contribution upstream start from Pasukan Terjemahan, we need to push for certification in OSS, so big-big companies can invest here and use our human resources. We need to have a bigger crowd of OSS contributors and supporter in Malaysia so we can have the political mileage. The biggest crowd in OSS. To tell you the truth, we don't have that mileage yet. We need to buildup our community first. We need community leaders, OSS community teach us everyone can contribute, so everyone can be a leaders. This leaders need to get their community going and need to set their goal right. We in OSDC.my (this list) will try to cater all the above but its all depend from the support of all OSS community in Malaysia. Their is NO unwritten policy of supporting proprietary software, its a written policy to pick the right company and software that can cater to agencies need. The most important are the support and kumpulan pakar (expert). And we in OSS industry, lack of its. I could not point to any local OSS company that can have better support in OSS or have thats many engineers, developers and management with OSS support. And for menjadi pelobi. Yes we still can have that but we need to prepare facts and figure. How big is the demand for OSS, how big is our community and what impact can we have in term of economy. Red1 Im in for this adhoc committee, but we need to disscuss points and facts that we can used if we want this kumpulan pelobi to success. and Thank You to friends in MDeC and MAMPU thats keep on supporting us. If you want them to keep on supporting us, we need to keep them in OSS porfolio or seksyen. To do that we need to show numbers and support to their bosses. Baru senang kita hendak melobi dan mereka membantu. Komuniti OSS buka sahaja mengajar saya tentang gotong royong melakukan sesuatu, malah jika mahu membuktikan sesuatu kita perlu melakukan ia dahulu baru kita boleh minta orang lain turut bersama kita. Thank you. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:58 PM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear fellow inmates, i mean freedom fighters. Sorry for this but after > watching lots of Al-Jazeerah, it finally hits me. We should no longer be > afraid of voicing out our grievances against govt's depts inefficiencies and > failures in promoting local talent or at least believing in locals as > budding technopreneurs who can one day succeed, given real support instead > of intimidation. > > No, no i am not saying that we are living under a 30 year dictatorship. I am > saying we are living in a P. Ramlee's era of been afraid to voice out and > that is why P. Ramlee died a pauper, broken man, broken in by his own > country. > > What Tahrir's Square teaches us is that today's youth and mostly in OSDC.my > are indeed hungry for change and self-sufficiency in using FOSS, but lacked > the support the govt supposedly is there for, which sadly comes in bits and > scraps, some big RM10m promise and then silence and denials as well as > diversions and excuses. We are worse than Tahrir Square. > > Such big events happening across the thousand year history of Sahara desert > must bring something home to us. It must at least stir us to reach for more > solidarity and courage to kick ass. I once again call for the formation of > an adhoc committee (non-registered, to hell with ROS) for MOSS to put > political pressure on the govt to change the unwritten policy of supporting > proprietary software and paying lip service to FOSS all this while. > > red1 > > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification > http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert > -- Malaysia Open Source Software Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 LinuxMalaysia Network http://www.facebook.com/Bukan.Sekadar.Internet.Sahaja -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
