Wah we hit with the chicken and eggs situation. What to do first. Do we just teach OSS to our students like OpenOffice.org and Linux Desktop or server anf then lets the market change.
or we change the market demand that exist now. Teaching OSS in school, we did have thats experience during the implementation of projek perkomputeran makmal sekolah fasa 3 around years 2005 and 2006. Arafat, Husni, myself and many more in the project, as a trainer and went to schools around Malaysia teaching the use of Linux in School labs. We try our best to deliver what is Linux and how to use it. But, for me, we failed. We failed because we don't have many knowledge persons that can supports all the teachers and labs around Malaysia. The OSS had already landed in our school but what happen during the execution we lack of experience how to maintain and support the OSS in school. We don't have local company that can push support and lobbying of OSS until to the level that, the administration of schools, PTD, Negeri and Kementerian can see the benefits. LONG TERM benefits. Yes we can tell government with OSS the cost is free and we are free as independence from depending on one company. But what happen with the implementation, its not free. License is free but implementation still costly. To maintain is also costly. Without proper support and knowledge workers with OSS, its a lockin. Teachers need to wait for supports that also don't know about Linux. And what happen next, PC covert into Windows and dual boot PC only have Our kerajaan has tried it and they will always will. But I don't want the cycle failure of this process hits us again and failed us. We need to come out with a different plan and we need to think outside the box. How ? How we want to do this, politically winning it and we show the cost of implementation much more cheaper (ROI) Where ? In schools or in Universities. Which is which What ? Desktop or servers or programming Who? OSS community? We as OSS community need to support this seriuously. What? What we want to used. Ubuntu ke? OpenSuse ke? FiMOS ke? nanti distros war lagi. We as OSS community need to push this. Bukan lagi menyalak, tapi dengan cara pelaksanaan. 2011/3/13 Raja Iskandar Shah <rajaiskand...@gmail.com>: > excellent point ! > > tajul has also pointed out a very valid point. ms windows and ms office are > available to schools and students at a very discounted price. > > the larger problem is that all the it lab manuals / books are written based > on ms products. therefore fimos need to address this larger overiding issue. > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
