red1 let me have a go at the icon grant application - i promised rafe to submit esok for two projects
i will update you tomorrow at oscc anyone else yg ada experience in this icon grant - saya dengar ada org melaka dah dapat dah ;-) On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > Ana mau tanam semangat bahawa apa perjuangan ini sebenarnya. Jika mau cari > makan, kahwin awal, dan beli kereta, lupakan perjuangan (yg tidak sia-sia) > ini. Memang ini perjuangan murni, tetapi jangan sampai ada tentera kita yang > tengah di medan perang boleh merungut, "laparrrnyaaa'. Sungguh sedih apabila > hambo dengar rungutan sedemikian. > > Seperti kisah2 hidup saya tulis dalam http://padi-malaysia.blogspot.com/sejak > tahun lepas. Ia perjuangan jauh dan lama. Saya pilih jalan ini kerana > tidak dapat elak dari kebenaran dan pengakuan tentang kebenaran. > > Begitu juga sabil FOSS ini. Bukan minta untuk menjadi pejuang tetapi > terjerumus di dalamnya. Mahu keluar sudah macam lambat. Macam Rambo sudah > landing kat tengah sawah padi berkumpuh di Myanmar mau pula fikirkan > selamat? > > Innovation and creativity means we must be willing to learn from mistakes > and change according to the circumstance. The way we Malaysians do things > not all are right. Some of it must be mistakes. Then tell me how come asyik > Stanford produce dotcom billionaires and we not a single one? Or secebis of > anyone? > > Look at Japan. When Emperor Meiji was visited by Comodore Perry with huge > warships in the 1850s, the japanese came out with the 100 year plan, to send > NOT scholars but translators to learn foreign languages and then bring the > manuals back to Japan to translate for their masses. They achieved a > startling armada that can defeat a superpower the first time ever in modern > times. > > If Japanese can think like that in 1850s, is it so difficult for us to > change our thinking in 2010s? > > Like i said Lutfi at UTM, it is up to the VC there. Samada nak atau tidak. > If he nak ke Harvard, then he goes to Harvard, but what can Harvard teach > you? UTM to be no.1 like Harvard? Think again. > > If he wants to come home and believe in our shorty little asians, then i > believe he can do it. I will be willing to serve him. Many of us will. > > So just give me one blady university that truly needs our help. That has > ownership from the top. That the VC says, "Yes! Lets do it and beat the crap > out of the west!" but no, instead they still agung-agungkan the west. Like i > said, such are acts of treason and ought to be shot by our malaysian Rambo. > > lutfi raffi wrote: > > Hoho.. I'm really really sorry red1.. terkena shotgun..... aduh.... > InsyaAllah akan diusahakan sebaik-baiknya selepas ini.... > > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:44 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > >> >> Seriously, i do not think that FOSS is viable as a busines. Not yet. >> There is more to be done at the educational and spiritual level. Many >> people still do not believe in it. Many ppl still abuse it. They want >> free lunch not freedom. >> >> So i think the funding for FOSS cannot be along those lines of asking >> for proof of business viability. It should ask for passion and activism >> that is proven. Many of us are willing to go and sing the FOSS song, but >> as freelancers on kuda kepang, i m not sure they can do so for long. At >> least i am already unable to answer beyond FOSS.my, MyGoScon, UTP, which >> all do not pay for my time. The vendors can send their speakers cos they >> are paid. >> >> Is there a fund to support evangelism work? That is not paid by >> propreitary vendors? If not, the community should figure out a singular >> mechanism to arm themselves before stepping one foot out again into the >> battlefield. No use going out, getting shot and then cry for your mummies. >> >> Live for nothing, >> or Die for Something. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to osdcmy-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to osdcmy-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
