Soon.... This is only pre-launch to start the momentum. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Slaya Chronicles - Geeko Acolyte <msiantuxlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. We want its to be >>> >> the starting point for the community to establish a good relationship >>> >> with education sector and industry through council... >>> >> >>> >> Its a start, we need more feedback. >>> >> >>> >> --------------------
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