correction .. Dr. Uwe Dippel, i believe, lectures in UNITEN. He is retired but just loves the corridors of a university and mingling with FOSS ppl.
He attended my first ever university lecture on ADempiere in 2007 there. Boh Yap wrote: > hi, > > Haris, that is exactly my point, we are the 'rakyat' from the IT > community. Just as gov gets feedback from the rakyat in other areas of > policy, .... WE shld be providing that feedback from the IT > perspective. > > IT initiative and policy is unlike 'just another' EP (Economic Policy) > e.g. the so called 'growth corridors', ... hey, lets get investors to > come in and do MORE OF THE SAME THING. But if we are gonna build > indigenous knowledge, its NOT doing 'more of the same thing'. > > IT has the potential to 'bootstrap' our economy to the next level, > that of a global challenging knowledge economy! The only other tech > that can do that is bio-tech, but these 2 work hand in hand, re: the > Human Genome Project. > > We have to be innovative and creative, we have to create a thinking > and creative culture, we have to develop skills and so on..... and > what we develop have to be free from encumbrances of the big vendors > (MS, Oracle, ...) else we are dragged back into a dependency > relationship (economic or otherwise). Hence I strongly believe only > FOSS can free us from this. > > But we have to increase the awareness of FOSS, to everybody/sector, > from gov. to private sector, to students and man in the street. But we > have strong obstacles from the marketing forces of the likes of MS. > One of the 'failures' of FOSS is that we don't have any marketing > activvities or BUDGET as opposed to the $M spent by the likes of MS. I > believe we dont need much, we can be creative and 'go with the flow', > for e.g. > > whenever the BSA nabs someone organization with pirated SW, we just > take out a full page Ad saying "Stop Piracy, go FOSS" or "Let us make > you Free..." or whatever catchy slogans we can think of. > > Hence FOSS needs a marketing fund. > > The other thrust is to build skills, we need more who can work with > FOSS, sys admins, programmers, web designers.... But this is also > difficult if its is not driven from the demand side, ie: MS is pushing > the message that students with MS skills are easilly marketable... we > have to push a similar message for FOSS. > > As a side note, this is already a fact, but it is not known... I was > talking to Dr. Uwe Dippel, a fellow speaker in MyGOSSCON, lecturer in > Multimedia Uni, and he was saying that he can easily find work for any > of his OSS-skilled students, the same cannot be said for MS! (Too > many MCSE perhaps?) > > Also I feel that many Edu instituitions, or those that make policy for > Edu don't know about FOSS. So we also need to educate the > educators.... and perhaps there should be a program to do this. > > I guess thats enough ranting... I don't believe in just ranting, > actions have to follow. So, anyone care to really start putting all > this on paper... as Haris? said earlier a "Community Lead National IT > Plan"? > > Let's start brainstorming... > Perhaps OSDC should lead this. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
