Hi all, Some time back I floated the idea that we needed to get our act together to present a OSDC.my as a knowledgeable and articulate group. The branding exercise is a good move, but how many of us can answer in an effective and coherent way when someone asks, "What is OSDC.my and what does it do?".
This is important as we grow from more than just a group of socially awkward and acerbic geeks into an organisation that can be a source of smart, capable and effective FOSS professionals in turn can be fed into the FOSS needs of the market. It will be catastrophic if we cannot even be articulate in making a case of, "What is OSDC.my?". Thus we can forget about being taken seriously, much less be considered for sponsorship. The About page at http://202.190.177.148/about gives an excellent introduction of OSDC.my. Since we are looking at making it, may we consider changing the word Club to maybe Committee? (or something better? Any ideas?). Tun Mahathir may have launched a Club, isn't it about time we grow to something better? A club, unless you are Man Utd, Liverpool or Arsenal, doesn't carry the same weight of being a serious player for talents nor someplace I will go for paid professionals. It doesn't help if the general perception of FOSS is free as in teh-o ais limau kurang manis(!) and in come a FOSS club?! Simple said you want the $$$ the word club may not be suitable. It is time for us to grow from geeks who gets boners playing with FOSS to people who are articulate, professional and radiates confidence and positive energy. So perhaps I can humbly put forward my suggested pitch to answer What is OSDC.my? Here we go, my 3 -minute pitch: *The Malaysian Open Source Development Club is a non-governmental grassroot movement by concerned Malaysians to bring together the best FOSS talents in Malaysia to work and share our talents in making FOSS a compelling computing platform for all Malaysians. We believe that FOSS is a great opportunity equaliser, greatly lowers the entrance barriers for businesses and allows us to be more competitive to easily and legally share the fruits of our labour with the world. OSDC.my aims to be a one-stop reference for all FOSS talents, references and coordinate all efforts to promote FOSS in Malaysia. * Please do comment constructively. Time is fast approaching MOSC 2011. -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
