List of Open Source Communities, Projects and OSS Events In Malaysia All are active groups with known meetup as off December 2010. Learn and getting help about Linux, Openoffice.org and Open Source Software from this groups . Comments are my personal view.
Latest update please refer to http://cikgucyber.blogspot.com/ (1) UKM Open Source Community UKM Open Source Community Forum and website http://opensource.ukm.my/ UKM Open Source Community Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/oss-ukm UKM Open Source CommunityFacebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Komuniti-Opensource-UKM/88674989641 ---> Among active OSS groups for universities in Malaysia. (2) OSDC.my Open Source Developers Club Malaysia OSDC.my Website http://www.osdc.my/ OSDC.my Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list OSDC.my Facebook http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my ---> To produce world class developers in Malaysia (3) Ubuntu.my Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Mailing List https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-my Official Community Page https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-my Official Website http://www.ubuntu.com.my/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31352971872 (4) Community FreeBSD / PCBSD Malaysia PCBSD Malaysia Mailing List http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/pcbsd-malaysia PCBSD Malaysia Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128216922984 MyBSD http://forum.mybsd.org.my/index.php (5) FOSSChix.my Women Of Malaysia OSS Community FOSSChix.my Website http://fosschix.my/ FOSSChix.my Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/FOSSchixmy/71305599985 FOSSChix.my Mailing List http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/chix (6) Fedora Malaysia Fedora Malaysia Website http://fedora.foss.org.my/ Fedora Malaysia Mailing List https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-my-list (7) OpenSuse Malaysia OpenSuse Malaysia Website http://myopensuse.info/ OpenSuse Malaysia Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88406656545 (8) MyPenguin99 MyPenguin99 Mailing List http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mypenguin99/ Unoffical Website http://mypenguin99.grouply.com/ MyPenguin99 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10736030518 (9) JomLinux Jomlinux Website http://www.jomlinux.com/ JomLinux Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/jomlinux (10) KK-LUG (Kota Kinabalu Sabah) KK-LUG Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/kk-lug (11) Melaka Open Source Melaka Open Source http://melakaopensource.org/ Melaka Open Source Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=89972343077 (12) Kuantan Linux Users Group KTNLUG http://groups.google.com/group/ktnlug (13) Kedah Open Source Kedah Open Source Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kedah-Open-Source/105645082718 (14) PHP.net.my PHP.net.my website http://www.php.net.my/ (15) Python.my Python.my Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/pythonmy (16) Malaysia Ruby Brigade Malaysia-rb Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/malaysia-rb (17) Google Technology Users Group GTUG Kuala Lumpur http://groups.google.com/group/gtug-kuala-lumpur (18) UTM Open Source Group UTM-OSS Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/utm-oss Komuniti OSS UTM http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=158079385849 (19) Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya OSACyber Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/osa-cyber OSACyber Website http://osacyber.org/ MMU Repository http://oss.mmu.edu.my/ Linuxsig MMU Melaka http://www.linuxsig.net/ (20) foss-sm foss-sm Website http://foss.org.my/ FOSS.my Event http://foss.my/ (21) Facebook User and Developer Community (Malaysia) FBUDC Facebook http://www.facebook.com/fbudc FBUDC Website http://www.facebookgarage.my/ (22) Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) MAMPU OSCC MAMPU Website http://www.oscc.org.my/ OSCC MAMPU Mailing List http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailman/listinfo MyGOSSCON http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my (23) UPM Open Source Ubuntu and Centos Mirror for Malaysia http://www.mirror.upm.edu.my/ (24) Projek Terjemahan Bahasa Melayu Dikendalikan oleh Ubuntu-my http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-my-transdocs (25) LinuxVarsiti LinuxVarsiti Website http://linuxvarsiti.org.my/ Linuxvarsiti Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=94991914012 (26) Penguin Masuk Kampung Penguin Masuk Kampung Website http://penguinmasukkampung.org/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=186807303594 (27) Very Important Programmer VVIP PHP http://veryimportantprogrammer.com/ (28) MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/MSC-Malaysia-Open-Source-Conference-2010/194170351613 (29) MSC Malaysia OSI http://www.mscmalaysia.my/opensource (30) LinuxMalaysia LinuxMalaysia Facebook http://www.facebook.com/linuxmalaysia http://blog.harisfazillah.info/ (31) ITtutor.net Forum ITtutor.net Website http://www.ittutor.net/ ITtutor.net Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5043932077 (32) Dunia-Digital Yahoogroups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dunia-digital/ Dunia-Digital Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dunia-Digital/216290990218 (33) Mambang.org.my http://mambang.org.my/ (34) MyDebian MyDebian Yahoogroups http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mydebian/ MyDebian Blog http://debianmalaysia.blogspot.com/ (35) LinuxDotMy LinuxDotMy Network http://linuxdotmy.multiply.com/ LinuxDotMy Website http://www.linuxdotmy.com/ (36) Drupal Malaysia Drupal Malaysia Website http://www.drupal.my/ (37) Joomla Malaysia Komuniti Pengguna Joomla Malaysia http://joomlamalaysia.org Komuniti Joomla Malaysia http://www.joomla-my.org/ (38) MOSCA Malaysia Open Source Software Consultant Alliance (MOSCA) http://mosca.songketmail.org/ (39) jaring.os.linux news server http://groups.google.com/group/jaring.os.linux/topics (40) Portal Komuniti Sumber Terbuka Malaysia http://sumberterbuka.com/portal/ (41) Asia Open Source Asia Open Source Website http://www.asia-oss.org/ (42) ASEAN Summer Google Of Code http://groups.google.com/group/asean-google-summer-of-code (43) Asia Open Source Software Center http://www.oss.asia/ Compile by Harisfazillah Jamel Hafnie LinuxMalaysia version 1.1 - 8 Dec 2009 http://linuxmalaysia.harisfazillah.info/ Archive and latest update http://cikgucyber.blogspot.com/2009/12/list-of-open-source-communities-in.html On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:44 +0800, Ahmad Amran wrote: >> How about mypenguin99 yahoo groups? Quite active i think. >> > > Absolutely! I didn't mean to leave them out. In fact, I think I used > to be a member when I was still living in KK. > > I just re-joined, but my membership is pending approval. So, if someone > wants to forward the email thread I started to that list as well, I > think that would be great. > > Thank you. > >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:24 +0800, Harisfazillah Jamel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Thank you for your interest. that may be possible but each groups >> >> exist for number of reasons. >> >> For example we have KK Linux and base mostly in Kota Kinabalu. >> >> Ubuntu-my for the love of Linux Ubuntu. >> > >> > That makes a lot of sense since there are some minor cultural >> > difference >> > between East and West Malaysia due to the way the country is split >> > geographically. I'm kinda from KK. >> > >> > I hope we can all collaborate more, though. I just think that we >> > might >> > be missing out on some things because the groups are separate and >> > small. >> > >> > Personally, I hope to live in KK and travel to KL (Air Asia, >> > RM199 :) ) >> > to participate in different conferences and meetings. >> > >> > There are some problems with the existing groups... >> > LinuxMalaysia (http://groups.google.com/group/linuxmalaysia ), for >> > example lists their Web site as http://www.geocities.com/linuxdotmy , >> > but GeoCities is no longer in service. >> > >> > Linux-Malaysia (http://groups.google.com/group/linux-malaysia ) hasn't >> > had any activity since the beginning of 2006, but the "about" page >> > says >> > that there are 20 members. Maybe those are 20 people who would like >> > to >> > know more about Linux, but they don't know that there are other groups >> > out there? >> > >> > MyLinux (http://groups.google.com/group/mylinux ) shows 7 members, but >> > no activity since 2008 (and I think that was SPAM). >> > >> > I personally know at least 5 tech-savvy Malaysians who would be >> > interested in learning more about Linux and taking part in Linux- >> > related >> > groups, but they don't know anything about LUGs. Which one would I >> > tell >> > them to join? >> > >> > If I walk around Kompleks Karamunsing (shopping center in KK) having >> > conversations with people about computers (as I often do), I'll >> > probably >> > meet 30 more people who would like to know more. But I wouldn't >> > have a >> > single resource or URL that I could give them that would help them. >> > >> > >> >> But we can combine them for a purpose or project. For example for >> >> Projek Terjemahan, its by >> >> Ubuntu-my but open to all groups. >> >> >> > >> > I'm glad you mentioned Ubuntu-my. I had only looked in the Google >> > Groups for Malaysian Linux groups and didn't know about about the >> > Ubuntu-my mailing list. I've joined now :) >> > >> >> We also discussing about MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010 >> >> that >> >> will involved community around Malaysia. The activities will combine >> >> all the community. >> >> >> >> Do join us in OSDC.my mailing list >> >> >> >> http://groups.google.com.my/group/osdcmy-list >> >> >> > >> > Sudah join bah! :) >> > >> > Sometimes "Open Source" groups have a slightly different focus, or >> > feel, >> > to them than LUGs because there is a political and government aspect >> > to >> > FLOSS adoption. This isn't anything bad, but it does seem less >> > personal. >> > >> > >> >> to discuss about MSC OSCONF 2010 and about your proposal. >> >> >> >> Thank you. >> > >> > Thank YOU! I look forward to more conversations with and about the >> > groups. >> > >> > Vince Aggrippino >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Harisfazillah Jamel >> >> >> >> http://www.facebook.com/linuxmalaysia >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi everyone. I just want to introduce myself. >> >>> >> >>> I'm Vince Aggrippino. I'm an American web developer (www.ghodmode.com >> >>> ) >> >>> and a Linux enthusiast. I'm also married to a Malaysian girl >> >>> (Kadazan, >> >>> dari Kota Kinabalu, Sabah). I lived in Malaysia for about 3 years >> >>> already. Right now, we're living in Auckland, NZ, but we'll be >> >>> moving >> >>> back to Malaysia to stay in 2010. >> >>> >> >>> I hope to be very active in the IT/ICT community when I come back to >> >>> Malaysia. >> >>> >> >>> I noticed that there are many Malaysian Linux users' groups, but >> >>> they >> >>> all have a relatively small membership and low activity. I wonder >> >>> if we >> >>> could combine them all and just have one or two with increased >> >>> activity? >> >>> >> >>> Saya boleh cakap BM, tapi saya bukan sangat pandai. Saya cakap >> >>> mecam >> >>> orang Sabah sebab saya belajar sana dan keluarga isteri dari sana. >> >>> >> >>> Thank you. >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Vince Aggrippino >> >>> a.k.a. Ghodmode >> >>> http://www.ghodmode.com >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > > >> >> > > > > > > -- My Facebook http://www.facebook.com/linuxmalaysia My Blog http://blog.harisfazillah.info/ My Network http://linuxdotmy.multiply.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. 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