Time management – how important it is to me now.

I need a hair cut.

That’s Martha, Nicholas’ daughter (of OSCC). She won the OLPC hands down during FOSS.my 2008, beating all other grown ups in a little game for OLPC giveaway. I think she’s the youngest audience in the hall. Nice trick Nic, I know you want the OLPC for geek self :p!

FOSS.my 2009 - little Martha holding her OLPC

Computer User

• See first hand the power, user-friendliness and robust from Viruses of Open Source Operating System powering your desktop, laptops, netbook, home server and handphones (even toaster, serious).
• Learn from experts howto tune your Open Source Operating System and detect missing driver, slow performance and guides on the best application that open source can offer.
• Save your expenses for more important matters in these tough times (girlfriends, food and wedding) rather than wasting time and money installing and buying those antivirus, Operating System and Productivity Applications.
• Learn the fundamental of Linux and Unix-based system and how they are different from Wisdows to impress friends, girlfriends, teachers and off course enemies / rivals.

Business Owner

• Do you want to save / monitor your company cost by using the best of breed ERP Solution? Checkout Open Source ADempiere Business Suite. Its the world’s number 1 Open Source ERP Project in the world and delivering solid business experience in a wide range of industries.
• Learn from the expert: World reknown leader of ADempiere, Mr Red1 will be there at MSC Open Source Conference to share and teach you how easy and complex ADempiere Business Suite and howto cater it to your business.
• Wanna save more dollar and cents? Lookout for the Open Source Desktop and Open Source Applications around you. The community and vendor are more than happy to help and guide you to the wonderful (money savings) world of Open Source.

Executives

• You’re an executive being pressured to look for more cost saving, dealing with reduce IT budget and dont know where to look? Look no further, MSC Open Source Conference is for you. We will showcase Virtualization, Open Source Desktop, Open Source Development Kit, Open Source ERP, Open Source Development Framework and Open Source T-Shirt to show your spirit. There will something for everyone at MSC Open Source Conference 2009.
• We will also share with you Open Source success stories, case studies and howto build your business case towards Open Source Migration.
• Some of the big Open Source and Open Source-Friendly company will be there on show to show you the FOSSnovation and like-for-like replacement for your current infrastructure.

Parents

• Yes parents also got their fair share of stake in the Open Source Community. We will be showcasing the Sugar OLPC (yes the famousOne Laptop Per Child) live CD for the parents to give their loved ones. This CD can run in any notebook and PCs for the children 1st iteration to the world of computing and application in the safest and enjoyable environment.
• Also some education-oriented games will be showcase to show how wide variety Open Source ecosystem is.

Undergraduate

• So you are looking for jobs or will be graduating soon? and wanna be in the Open Souce boat? Jobstreet will open up booth on the event floor. Go there and show the world how good you are!!
• Heard of Open Source but never really sure what it is? Do you know that most graduate with Open Source skills are far better at getting jobs than those that aren’t? Come over and we show you what the fuss is all about !!

IT Companies

• Business stagnanting? Solutions not being accepted well in the market? We show you the latest trend and where the market is heading in terms of technology, demand and innovation.
• Looking into Open Source-related business but don’t know where to look? Head over to all the participating companies booth and illustrated speakers and strike some deal / enquiries moving forward. Those coming are some of the biggest in the game e.g. Redhat, Novell, Canonical, Sun Microsystem and Google Inc.

Coders / Developers

• Looking for new code to hack? new itch to be scratch? Checkout the Developers track where some latest and biggest Open Source Project showcasing their shiny codes and over-the-top applications.
• Share your knowledge either formally or informally either during the hackathon or the lightning talks session. Be an instant celebrity here, only in MSC Open Source Conference 2009!!

Open Source Community

• Meet new and online-only friend here at MSC Open Source Conference and share a drink. Its been a while since the last big gathering of Open Source Community in Malaysia.

Here’s to the big event.

REGISTER NOW!!

MSC OSCONF 2009

Visit official website
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Who should attend?

• Business executives from MSC Malaysia and Non-MSC Malaysia Status companies
• Open Source developers, communities, inventors, evangelist, researchers, strategist
• Government officers
• Students, general public

Why you should attend?

1. Provide exposure and knowledge on the importance of Open Source in enhancing competitiveness by giving freedom of choice in software usage with lower total cost of ownership, hence benefiting businesses and society at large. Over 30 session tracks are made available.
2. Share amongst the open source community on new directions and latest innovations by the subject matter experts, thought leaders and industry gurus.
3. Provide a platform for conference participants to actively interact, share and exchange views, ideas, and tools on the latest trends and issues of Open Source.
4. Networking, learning and having great fun!

Alien's note

2. KSN’s new system is applying FOSSchix.my’s theme. OMFG. Why can’t it use default Plone theme, change the base color to purple or something.

3. Hey we got sijil penghargaan for sumbangan melaksanakan projek inovasi MyMeeting, with my name incorrectly spelled on it.

The answer to this is quite obvious – open source environment. Malaysian government should have its own sourceforge where all these systems can get in there and show off. Doesn’t matter if they’re build from scratch or by using frameworks, elegant code or not, it’s supposed to be where malaysian government servants should feel comfortable at, at least as a playground for programmers in the government sector. I like the idea when other people come and see my code and suggest some new features or report bugs or better yet, submit patches. My apps will not only get better, but I get to learn too. This of course varies to each of us, some of us may be get intimidated at the idea of others who’s probably better programmers looking at our wee wee code. Some will right away jump at the opportunity to the point of annoying everyone. Some will just accept it as it is and do nothing about it. I’m sure you’ve heard this a million times: it’s the first step that counts. Here’s an advice: take that step and see where you’ll end up.

Who cares if the app is not perfect, then again, which app ever is. It’s the continuous development along with the requested features that will make it ‘perfect’. A success of a software doesn’t depend on how advance the code or the tool is, it’s when the user says “I like this software. It helps me alot in my day to day tasks. I use it everyday”. Now wouldn’t that something every developers would want to hear. You’ve developed a small app still using PHP with every page you have to mysql_connect at the top but everyone in your bahagian/seksyen/jabatan/etc depends on it, I will say to you – you rock!

For you men of real martians, you get to feed you ego. Ya ya everyone will know you as the so and so contributor, you have stories to tell to you fellow colleagues and later on your kids, you get to brag, and sometimes you can make some money out of it even though open source is not really about money. Just be careful, ego too big will cut your life short. Too small it’s a turn off ok. And girls, this is the time for us to rise and show the world what we’ve got. There’s so many of us graduating in IT/CS in Malaysia, alot working in the government as IT Officers – where are you? Get in here ladies. First step: join FOSSchix.my.

I think what could stop them from sharing apps even if we have this kind of sourceforge is they probably think if they share it, they’ll lose ownership of it. Pride. One of the deadliest sin – seems the deadlier it is the more people has it. Or they think if they share their app, they’ll share their confidential info too. Hmmpphh… shows how much open source education is needed. Lack of understanding and exposure is one item we still have to beat and it’s not going to be easy.

Ooohh didn’t mean to write this long. Just feeling bad for the people I helped today – it’s better if they can just browse and download and install.

Alright girls, it is important that I announce this one:

Mailing list for FOSSchix.my has landed on earth

Come join and participate okay. It’s new so no activity in there yet but it’s coming! If you’re in IT, please subscribe as you’ll never know. I’m an open source chick but hey girl, no matter what OS you using, as long as you’re interested in contributing to the Malaysian open source arena, this could be the first step for you (and surprise surprise you don’t even have to be a developer to join). Come and join and make acquaintances. Learn and share knowledge.

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Cool in-house bunting design using what else, Inkscape!

On another note, I want to shamelessly put this here.

Anyway, if you can’t see the url, it’s http://trac.oscc.org.my/mymeeting. Really took a huge amount of courage to put it here. So there it is…

I knew I had to finish up some stuff this weekend but I kept on delaying it until the last minute, this very wee hour. You know what I did the whole weekend? Friday night, I was out with family. Saturday, the whole day I spent watching tv – you don’t know how tv-deprived I was. Saturday nite, I can’t remember what I did actually. On Sunday, I woke up really late doing stuff I don’t remember what the night before. I didn’t go straight to work, instead I went cleaning up my room, rearranged and refolding clothes, took a long shower (my heater is broken! isk), watched some more tv, watched some dvd’s, well until it was 11. I went to play games after that (that expert level on Majesty rox). Made some coffee, grilled some fish, downloaded some music, then only I started looking at the work I was supposed to do. It was 2am.

Why did I procastinate?

On a side note, have to work on FOSSchix.my soon. I don’t think any meeting can be held before that FOSS meetup. So sad, there’s something coming up on 3 – 5 Dec. Damn you government for holding so many events and what’s that star rating.

Now that’s an example of how an open source event should be – laidback, fun, ‘protocol-less’, various informative tech talks, responsive audience and most importantly everyone was there for one same reason: the love in open source and building a community, not because they had no choice ordered to go there by their bosses.

If you weren’t there, honestly speaking, you missed out on ALOT. Whether it was because of other commitments or just plain intimidated that you didn’t come that day, well, come to FOSS.my 2009 then (hopefully there’ll be one). You will surprised at how friendly and helpful these people are!

I can’t stress enough how awesome it was and how much you missed out if you weren’t there. Worth my weekend.

Full house at FOSS.my 2008

Q-ing for food

FOSSchix.my killing some free time

FOSSchix.my side session with Pia Waugh of Software Freedom International - there were actually more girls behind the camera

FOSSchix.my side session with Pamela Fox of Google - had to move to bigger room since audience was alot more than expected

And I AM SO PROUD OF FOSSCHIX.MY MEMBERS WHO WERE THERE. That’s a sign of true passion and I really appreciate it. May we become stronger together and you rock! I love you mwah mwah mwahhhh!!!

Chix, let’s have fun, our way.

Come and visit us. See you there!