One market we should also focus on is the small time organization market (note it doesn't have to be SMEs, it could be your Persatuan Pekebun Kecil whatever somewhere). I really hope Adempiere could follow the ubuntu model. Call it "The ERP for the rest of us".
1) Single CD + a few clicks install 2) Dead simple to use 3) Integrated with online services (for example, for organizations, a link to ROS, for SME, maybe to LHDN etc.) 4) Mobile components 5) Dead simple addons - ala Android Marketplace Then, just like Ubuntu skyrocketed Linux from the backwaters of OSS, can Adempiere make most Malaysian realize the importance of an ERP. And thus the Center Red1 proposes. And frankly, just like Canonical has fulltime employees, so should the Center. Volunteers have done wonders for Adempiere, imagine what people can put in if they focus 100% of their working energy on it. This is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity for MDeC*. I, as an individual, do not necessarily need this center. I can earn my living, work my way the usual way and have a happy life and family. Worst case scenario, I just move out of this country (and lately I've been thinking more and more about doing just this) and I'm sure any talented Malaysian dev. out there are in the same situation. MDeC, please listen... and I'll try to be as polite as possible, we, as developers can survive well enough if Red1's center is not created. We'll find jobs, we'll raise our family and earn enough to pay for a vacation once in a while. We do not need the center per se, but Malaysia, as a country, and MDeC as the caretaker of the country's ICT, SOOO DO NEED IT. If not, 100 years from now, in our history books, MDeC would probably be just a footnote somewhere instead of a whole chapter if this center is not set up. Frankly, I'll be patient and see if MDeC takes the challenge that Red1 proposed, but this is probably the final straw. If not, a whole bunch of us are probably would leave the Malaysian OSS scene and probably the county. *If you are an MDeC employee, please do not think of my rant as an attack on you personally. I do think that people in MDeC are also individuals who choose to work with MDeC when they can pour their talent somewhere else. Heck, I know a few good people in MDeC who were courted by oversea companies and yet they decline the offer for the love of the country. If anything, they are more into it then us developers. I believe that people in MDeC are heroes but some of the policies are real time-wasters. Azrul Sensei On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > > After a short struggle this year long, i can now smile that at least few > people can now come up to me and say, > > "Mr. Redhuan. I finally am enlightened of what the hell you been > screaming about. FOSS is not about the code. It is about branding in a > blue ocean." > > Inspired by such new taliban, I spent these 2 days writing up a simple > plan for us to consider as Malaysia's Gift to the world. > http://www.red1.org/MSC8.pdf > > It is exported from AppleMac Keynote (manyak dasyot the animation, so if > you really wana see the movie, belanja me free teh tarik). > > So please discuss or vote for acceptance and make it our key flagship. > Whether it become reality or not we leave to Allah. Our tugas is done. > > WARNING: If you do not vote or counter then your tugas to > Allah/Karma/Tao/Money is not done. In a few years its 2012, possibly a > magnetic pole shift, sending chaos and 90% world population to alam > lain. Mana tahu, Malaysia is the next superpower to continue in the new > alam. :) > > red1 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
