Red1, It will scare the sh*t of those bureaucrats to get feedback from the rakyat. Same reason why Warkah for PM site went down so soon. They just couldn't handle the truth; or more appropriately the volume of the truth....
The Pau lady, nothing bad to say about that coz it was genuinely a good result for a cottage industry. Dude holding an exhibition about NKRA will most probably end up a makan2 session for Govt servants at PICC. Anyone who is sane will try to avoid going to PICC unless absolutely necessary. Perhaps a roadshow will be more appropriate than a single exhibition. Give a pen freebie or something and some reading material and hold them in shopping malls. But then again it will hit a brick wall due to budget constraints. Hmmm...odd they can find the $$$ to fly Najib and his posse around the world.... Until the Government/Civil Service realises that they exists to serve the needs of the people (and not a particular group), has the chutzpah to face and accept the truth and the people are the boss, they will forever be trapped in a circle of narcissistic idiocy. As a dyed-to-the-bone Malaysian I would sincerely love to help. But am seriously demoralised.... Eric On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, red1 <r...@red1.org> wrote: > One good idea is to do what the main trunk of the govt is doing - hold an > exhibition of your NKRAs and explain to the crowd so that it reflects the > excitement as it should. Otherwise we have to depend on the 5,000 per day > 'pau' lady. > > Come to think of it why didn't the govt allow open blogging and voting on > their NKRAs instead? > > > On 12/22/09 1:05 AM, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > > ooopppss... sorry tertinggal. > > the other reason for oss: > > 1. repo : why go to website, download software then double-click ? when > a person can simply apt-get or yum on one line ? and it automatically > checks > for all dependencies ! or set-up your own repo server, and update hundreds > of servers automagically. > > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Raja Iskandar Shah < > rajaiskand...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> current experience with 2 ministries in putrajaya >> >> ministry #1 - tender specifically requests for oss. besides cost, the >> purpose is not to be locked down with licensing. and they can share with the >> 6 agencies under them. >> >> ministry #2 - already knew what feature was needed and required oss so >> that they can integrate with existing system. >> >> other 'overlooked' reason for oss: >> >> 1. inhouse development. very few ict officers like to fill long forms, >> write kertas kerja, and wait till next year to have a software. and >> typically, users wanted it yesterday. so the alternative is download oss >> and >> have it running by the end of the week. >> 2. features: spent the whole of the last 2 weeks reading through 58 >> oss case study awards. what struck me was that 80% of them regarded oss as >> superior (the other 20% was in desktop deployments) >> >> at the moment the situation is still in the 'trial' stage which means that >> they are using whatever is available. >> >> i constantly look at tenders / requests for quotes specifically for web >> based applications. more than half specified open source. most recent is >> from a ministry which specifically requested development on joomla. >> >> and it scares the shit out of m$... cutting prices to the govt academics >> by a huge 85%. tying up with php companies and sponsoring a booth at >> mygosscon. coming up with installer for several oss cms for windows. >> >> instead of bitching, pitch one more time, >> instead of blaming, fix one more bug >> >> we need lots more oss developers.... there are heaps more work that can be >> done. >> >> >> > > -- > 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<osdcmy-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en > -- 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
