Why wasn't Novell invited to the interview? Eric
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Najah <khairunna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yup, sure. > > The spokespersons :- > > • Mohd Fazli Azran of the Open Source Developers Club > • Professor Dr. Md Gapar, Vice President, Faculty of Info > Science & Engineering, Management & Science University > • Dr. Albert Wong, Chief Technology Officer, Jobstreet Malaysia > • Alan Ho, Senior Manager, Services Marketing, Red Hat APAC > > Media :- > 1. PC.com > 2. Berita Harian > 3. New Straits Times > 4. Harian Metro > > > The objective of the media interview:- > • Establish the importance and need for IT graduates and > professionals to enhance their skill sets in open source, cloud > computing and virtualisation to move towards a high-income economy. > • Identify value added benefits to IT graduates and > professionals as well as trends amongst IT employers. > • Identify available certification programmes which provide > local graduates with opportunities to expand their skill sets and > talents worldwide. > • Announce the formation of the Open Source Developers > Community and its goals to ensure the healthy, sustainable and > accredited growth of open source skill sets and professionals in > Malaysia. > > > Fazli Azran explained on OSDC.my, recent activities and what’s > OSDC.my’s planning. There is an urgent need to increase the number of > accredited open source professionals in the industry to meet growing > demands. The establishment of the Open Source Development Community > serves to ensure that the quality of open source professionals is not > compromised by establishing set standards which are agreed upon by > acadamia, industry players as well as the open source community > itself. > > Prof Gapar elaboration on the concept of open source and what are the > benefits of it. There is a high demand in OSS. MSU’s OSS > implementation in their education syllabus. > > Dr Albert explains more on the supply and demand in OSS. Reseach by > Jobstreet indicates that there is a definite increase in demand > amongst employers for graduates and professionals who have undergone > specific technical skills training in open source, virtualization and > cloud computing, which marks an important shift in human capital > demand in the IT industry. Dr Albert also mention Jobstreet as a case > study where Jobstreet also use Open Source Technology. > > Alan Ho explains on Red Hat’s involvement in the OSS community. > Technical skills like IT training and certification add value to the > marketability of IT graduates and professionals alike. The needs of > small and medium company, large company etc. Virtualization and cloud. > > Well, this is just a part of the discussion. Will spare some time to > update more. > > Regards, > Yun > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel > <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks yun and OSS friends for arranging this. >> >> Can you provide notes what had been discuss during the press interview? >> >> Who attending? >> >> Today is the starting point for more from companies, government >> agencies, universities and community them self to join and establish >> official OEC for our platform and forum to discuss and lobbying OSS >> education. >> >> We need to have TT session with others in our community to help us >> making this happen. >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Najah <khairunna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > we are currently in a media interview to promote this. the spokes >> > persons are from osdc.my(community), jobstreet(HR professional), MSU >> > (education) and Redhat(oss vendor). >> > >> > will update on the details later. >> > >> > :) >> > >> > Yun >> > >> > On 12/13/10, Harisfazillah Jamel <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Team >> >> >> >> Its take some time for Yun and Fazli with the help from other friends >> >> (Thanks) in the industry to get this idea moving. 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