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MyGOSSCON 2009 BOF Sessions

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:31:00 +0000

MyGOSSCON 2009 BOF Sessions

Open to all, free entrance to all Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions. Interested in joining our BOF sessions? Register yourselves

http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/2009/registration/

Thurday, 5th Nov 2009 6.30pm

Birds Of a Feather Cocktail
Level 1 : Fine Dining Area

PICC, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON) 4-6 Nov 2009

The Malaysian Public Sector Master Plan is now in the 2nd phase of implementation. Significant progress have been achieved, for example a total of 540 agencies have implemented OSS. As part of the continuous promotion of the Public Sector OSS Programme, the 3rd annual MyGOSSCON will be held from 4 – 6 November 2009. MyGOSSCON will bring together government organisations, OSS community and the industry to share on how OSS is being used to transform the public service delivery and create unprecedented value proposition for the business organisation.

More information :-

http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/

MyGOSSCON 2009 is Open For Registration

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:15:00 +0000

MyGOSSCON 2009 is Open For Registration

Dear all,

The third premier annual OSS conference, “The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference” (MyGOSSCON 2009) will be held from 4th to 6th November 2009 at Putrajaya International Convention Centre.

The registration for participating in MyGOSSCON 2009 is now open! Please visit

http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/2009/registration/

for more details.

Please also visit http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my for any other latest information on MyGOSSCON 2009.

Target Audience
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While MyGOSSCON 2009 is directed primarily at Government of Malaysia (GOM) agencies, attendance is open to participants from outside the Public Sector.

Number of Participants and Exhibition booth
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The conference is expected to be attended by at least 800 participants. In addition, a total of 40 OSS showcase exhibition booths are anticipated in this three-day event.

Hightlights of MyGOSSCON 2009
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1.Keynote and track sessions
2.OSS Showcase exhibition
3.OSS Case Study Awards
4.Programming Contest
5.OpenOffice.org Competition
6.Lightning Talks
7.Birds of a Feather Cocktail
8.Appreciation dinner

Enquiries
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Please feel free to contact OSCC MAMPU for any enquiries:
Tel. 603 83191200, Fax: 603 83193206
e-mail: contact@oscc.org.my

Thank you.

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Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference 2009

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:31:00 +0000

Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference 2009

Dear all,

MAMPU is preparing to stage its premier annual OSS conference, “The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference” (MyGOSSCON 2009). The conference is planned to be officiated by Y.Bhg Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon and held from 4th to 6th November 2009 at Putrajaya International Convention Centre. Please visit http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my for announcements in the coming weeks and months as the conference details become finalised.

Objective
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To showcase the benefits of Open Source Software (OSS). To exhort and hasten further OSS deployment and development to bring about the transformation of the entire ICT Industry in support of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan.

Who should attend
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While MyGOSSCON 2009 is directed primarily at Government of Malaysia (GOM) agencies, attendance is open to participants from outside the Public Sector.

The conference also provides an excellent forum for participants to hear firsthand from industry experts and to interact with their peers. And not to be overlooked will be the extensive networking opportunities for CIOs & IT Directors, as well as management, planning and legal staff.

Conference Theme
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This year's conference theme, “Leveraging OSS To Ride The Economic Wave” is especially pertinent at a time of global economic uncertainty. MyGOSSCON 2009 will re-emphasise GOM's desired direction for ICT development in the Public and Private Sectors.

Hightlight
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1) OSS Showcase exhibition
2) OSS Case Study Awards by Government Agencies/Institutions of Higher Learning
3) Programming Contest
4) OpenOffice.org Competition
5) Birds of a Feather Dinner

Call For Paper
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The Call For Papers is now open! Proposals for conference papers will be accepted until Tuesday, 15th September 2009. The selected papers will be announced, followed by the final programme content and the registration process.

A broad and diverse variety of papers is anticipated, e.g. basic research, novel applications and industrial experience, with different criteria for each category. Real life experiences and case studies are particularly sought.

Important deadlines
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15th September 2009 Deadline for submission of papers
29th September 2009 Notification of acceptance to authors
19th October 2009 Submission of full presentation material
4th-6th November 2009 MyGOSSCON 2009

Contact us
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Tel. 603 83191200, Fax: 603 83193206
e-mail: contact@oscc.org.my

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OSCC MAMPU Malaysia June 2009 E Newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:12:00 +0000

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1. Monthly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 4/2009 June 2009 MAMPU To Collaborate With Other Governments Putrajaya 1 June 2009. In recognition of Malaysia's achievement in implementing the Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Master Plan, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Sudan had invited MAMPU for possible collaborations to implement their OSS initiatives. MAMPU had accepted the invitations and recently visited the two countries to discuss the collaboration initiatives. Inside ● MAMPU To Collaborate Visit To Saudi Arabia, 25 – 26 May 2009 With Other On 25th May 2009, a delegation from MAMPU headed by Tuan Haji Governments Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak, MAMPU Director (BDPICT) officially visited King Abdul Aziz City For Science And Technology (KACST) in Saudi ● Unflagging Pursuit of Arabia to conduct a preliminary discussion on their OSS initiative. In OSS Vision essence, the discussion was focused on the formation of the Smart ● Exemplary Initiative In Partnership between KACST, United National and Development Programme OSS Implementation (UNDP) and MAMPU to help the Kingdom to establish a National Open Source Software Centre in their country. ● It's over 500 now ● OSS Opportunity Under the Smart Partnership, a number of OSS activities were proposed and Workshop KACST was advised to draw up the objectives and scope of their OSS initiatives for analysis by MAMPU. This heralds the initiation of a mutually fruitful partnership towards implementing OSS in Saudi Arabian Government agencies. OSCC Newsletter covers the latest issues and updates related to Open Source Software in Malaysia. OSCC Newsletter is developed by Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU. MAMPU, is the central agency responsible for leading change and modernisation in the public service. MAMPU's Open Source Competency Centre is first and single point of reference for support and guidance in the implementation of Open Source Software in the Public Sector. For more information visit http://www.oscc.org.my or contact@oscc.org.my This document is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License Malaysia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/2.5/my/ Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak (2nd from right), MAMPU Director (BDPICT) and two other MAMPU delegates with government officials of the King Abdul Aziz City For Science And Technology. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 1
2. Monthly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 4/2009 June 2009 Visit To Sudan, 8 – 10 June 2009 Upcoming Training A delegation from MAMPU headed by MAMPU Deputy Director, Madam Tan King Ing recently visited Sudan on June 8-10th 2009 on the invitation by July 14 - 15, 2009 the Nile Centre for Technology Research (NCTR) of Sudan. Sudan is Linux Fundamentals seeking to adopt OSS in government agencies and educational institutions. MAMPU presented a paper during the OSS Workshop entitled “Free and July 15th , 2009 Open Source Software in Sudan: Freedom of Change and Strategic Using MyNetwatch Vision” to share its experience and knowledge in implementing the Public Sector OSS Master Plan. To register, please visit: http://www.oscc.org.my/cont The workshop concluded with an agreement by the National Information ent/view/9/15/ Centre (NIC) of Sudan, which is a government agency equivalent to MAMPU, to submit proposal on formal OSS policy to the Cabinet in Sudan. Other Highlights Apart from the workshop, the MAMPU delegation also attended several meetings with Sudanese government agencies and universities to discuss OSSRA possible collaboration activities on OSS. Based on these meetings, Sudan Open Source Software has expressed strong interest to collaborate with MAMPU and is keen to Reference Architecture is establish a formal agreement with MAMPU to pursue this agenda further. available for download from OSCC Portal. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ content/view/201/243/ WAG Web Application Guidelines is available for download from OSCC Portal. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ content/view/202/246/ MAMPU Delegation with Sudanese Minister of Science and Technology (2nd from right), Sudan government officials and workshop participant. Unflagging Pursuit of OSS Vision Putrajaya 15 June 2009. MAMPU continues to not only encourage but proactively inspire more Public Sector agencies to implement OSS by promoting the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan through motivating talks, local and international collaboration activities (headline) and OSS showcase exhibitions in numerous events. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 2
3. Monthly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 4/2009 June 2009 These can be evidenced in the recent two conferences for which MAMPU was the co-organiser, namely the MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference Resources from May 31 - June 3, 2009, and National ICT Conference from June 9-11, 2009. OSS Implementation Guidelines OSS Implementation Guidelines is available for download from OSCC portal. http://www.oscc.org.my/cont ent/view/25/208/ OSCC Mailing list To subscribe to our mailing lists please visit http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailm an/listinfo e-Marketplace MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Datuk Normah Bt Md. Yusof flanked by Government agencies can MAMPU Deputy Director, Madam Tan King Ing, CEO MdeC, Y.Bhg. Dato' now post service requests Badlisham Ghazali, and OSCC MAMPU staff at the exhibition hall during the and find service providers MSC Open Source Conference 2009. with the new e-Marketplace. The MSC Open Source Conference was organised by Multimedia http://knowledge.oscc.org.my Development Corporation (MDeC) in cooperation with MAMPU. The four- /e-marketplace day conference had attracted a good turnout of over 650 local and international participants. Knowledge Bank MAMPU Director General , Y.Bhg. Datuk Normah Md. Yusof was also Open Source Competency present to give the opening keynote address on Malaysian Government Centre, MAMPU's OSS initiative. In addition, MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT), Y.Brs Dr. Knowledge Bank is a public Nor Aliah binti Mohd Zahri spoke on OSS Master Plan with paper entitled Community of Practice area the “Catalyst for Modernisation”. MAMPU Deputy Director, Madam Tan for Open Source Software King Ing gave an inspiring talk on the roles and success of OSCC MAMPU Implementors. in executing the OSS Master Plan. She had encouraged and motivated the For further information and to public sector to contact OSCC MAMPU for OSS implementation guidance be part of the community, and assistance. please visit The National ICT Conference was jointly organised by National Institute of http://knowledge.oscc.org.my Public Administration (INTAN) and MDeC in collaboration with MAMPU. The conference aims to bring together the public and private sectors in moving towards a Connected Government. MAMPU, as the lead agency to implement the Connected Government initiative had exclusively revealed its strategies and action plans for deliberation at this Conference. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 3
4. Monthly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 4/2009 June 2009 Upcoming Events OSS Case Study Awards 2009 Please submit your OSS Case Study for the 2009 National OSS Case Study Awards which will be held in conjunction with MyGOSSCON 2009 on November 09. For submission and enquiry, please visit Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, Chief Secretary to the Government of http://www.oscc.org.my/cont Malaysia being flanked by Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri (MAMPU ent/view/194/128/ Deputy Director General (ICT)) at OSCC MAMPU's exhibition booth at the National ICT Conference at PICC. OSS Opportunity Workshops Exemplary Initiative Registration is now open for Contributed by En. Abbas Abdul Wahab, Principal Assistant Director, National agencies not implementing Physical Plan Division , Federal Department of Town and Country Planning any OSS. A series of workshops will be held bi- Federal Department of Town and Country Planning (Jabatan Perancangan months until November 09. Bandar Dan Desa - JPBD) had spearheaded the initiative to implement OSS way back in 2002 when the Government of Malaysia endorsed the To register, please call 03- paper “Proposal on OSS Implementation in the Public Sector of Malaysia”. 83191200 or email marketing@oscc.org.my According to En. Abbas Abdul Wahab, since the beginning of 2002, all new servers at JPBD headquarters were installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a powerful OSS based server operating system. . The Unix-like MyGOSSCON 2009 operating system was later upgraded to another OSS based operating This inaugural and full- system called FreeBSD. fledged Open Source Conference organised by JPBD had implemented several new servers over the period of two years, MAMPU will be back this which include homepage server, webmail cum antivirus server, database year in November 2009. servers and main farm servers. En. Abbas further commended the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Kementerian Perumahan Dan Kerajaan Further information will be Tempatan) on their OpenOffice.org implementation in early 2009, as well as available soon. the enthusiasm to expand the use of OSS, particularly, in desktop computers in all the departments under its wing. In addition, En. Abbas plans to introduce and promote three popular OSS solutions for use in JPBD, namely the Ubuntu operating system, OpenOffice.org, and Quantum Geograhical Information System (QGIS) for Desktop computers. In JPBD, GIS is an essential and mission-critical tool for effective town and country planning activities . Quantum GIS or QGIS, You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 4
5. Monthly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 4/2009 June 2009 is a multi-platform, Open Source GIS that enables smooth migration from Windows to Open Source platform. QGIS also has an international community and active forum at http://forum.qgis.org. The beauty of QGIS is that both the Windows and Ubuntu versions look exactly alike thus no re-learning is required when users migrate from the Windows to Ubuntu platforms. The QGIS Ubuntu version running on a computer with the Ubuntu operating system integrates well and should prove to be comparatively faster as both were designed on Open Source making the system responsive and “light” when it concerns data analysis. In line with the Public Sector OSS Master Plan, MAMPU alongside JPBD encourages all Public Sector agencies to take advantage of what Open Source solutions has to offer. It's Over 500 Now The number of Public Sector agencies adopting OSS continues to increase. The recently published record shows that 505 agencies have used OSS. The number represents 69.7% of the total agencies in Malaysia. Many agencies already took the initiatives to contact MAMPU for their latest update on OSS implementation. To date, 1,603 OSS implementation are recorded with total savings exceeding RM 48.5 million. A total of 295 agencies have used OpenOffice.org that saved the Malaysian Government over RM 18.8 million in licensing fee alone. MAMPU is encouraging agencies who have not implemented OSS to contact OSCC MAMPU for support and assistance in their OSS implementation. Full information on OSS implementation status is available at: http:// www.oscc.org.my/content/view/227/139/. All public sector agencies are requested to check the accuracy of the above published record and to contact OSCC MAMPU for updates on their latest OSS implementation. In particular, agencies who have implemented OSS but are stated otherwise in the above published record are strongly encouraged to contact OSCC MAMPU for updates. To update, please contact OSCC MAMPU Marketing Department at marketing@oscc.org.my or call 03- 83191200. Alternatively, please download and send in the completed feedback form via email or fax 03- 83193206. The feedback form is downloadable from the above URL. OSS Opportunity Workshop – 18 June 2009 OSCC MAMPU has recently conducted its third OSS Opportunity Workshop on 18 June 2009, which attracted a turnout of 16 public sector agencies. The workshop kicked off with the presentation of Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan by MAMPU Principal Assistant Director, Encik Omar Bin Yaakop. As with the first two workshops, participants were presented with the MyMeeting application before they were split into groups for round-table discussions with facilitators from OSCC MAMPU. Agencies were also given the opportunity to share the challenges and barriers that detered them from implementing OSS. Agencies not implementing any OSS are required to provide feedback to MAMPU on a proposed date for their OSS implementation. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 5
6. Monthly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 4/2009 June 2009 Editorial Board 1. Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri (MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)) – Advisor 2. Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak (MAMPU Director (BDPICT)) - Chief Editor 3. Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director (BDPICT)) – Deputy Chief Editor 4. Managers & executives(OSCC MAMPU) – Contributors You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 6

OSCC MAMPU Malaysia May 2009 E Newsletter

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:01:00 +0000

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1. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Boosting The Local ICT Industry Putrajaya 29th May 2009. OSCC MAMPU had recently conducted the third OSS Industry Participation Plan (IPP) Workshop from 5th May to 6th May 2009 to enhance the synergy between the public and private sectors in boosting the local ICT industry towards a more vibrant and sustained growth in the face of the current economic condition. Specifically, the main objectives of this two-day Workshop are to: Inside 1. Enhance cooperation between OSCC MAMPU, business & OSS ● Boosting The Local ICT Communities in the implementation of the Malaysian Public Sector Industry OSS Master Plan. ● OSS Opportunity 2. Review roles and contributions of all stakeholders in Public Sector Workshop-Registration OSS Segment. ● Epitome of OSS 3. Identify the needs of all stakeholders in growing and sustaining the Implementation OSS ecosystem. ● OSS Case Study 4. Sustain and increase the pool of OSS providers. Awards 2009 5. Establish a platform for networking and experience sharing on OSS ● MSC Malaysia OSCON among the business and OSS Communities. ● COOOL Certification The workshop was chaired by MAMPU Deputy Director, Madam Tan King Ing with participants from the Public and Private Sectors, and IPTA. Some ● Latest OSS Adoption of the participants include MOSTI, MOHE, UPM, Red Hat Asia Pacific Pte. Trend Ltd, Multimedia Development Corporation (Mdec), Oracle Corporation ● Wondrously Portable Malaysia, and IBM Malaysia. ● MyWorkSpace ● Vietnam Mandates OSS for Govt. Staff OSCC Newsletter covers the latest issues and updates related to Open Source Software in Malaysia. OSCC Newsletter is developed by Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU. MAMPU, is the central agency responsible for leading change and modernisation in the public service. MAMPU's Open Source Competency Centre is first and single point of reference for support and guidance in the implementation of Open Source Software in the Public Sector. For more information visit http://www.oscc.org.my or contact@oscc.org.my This document is released under a Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director), OSCC MAMPU Staff and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Participants from industry after the third IPP Workshop on 6th May 2009 License Malaysia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/2.5/my/ You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 1
2. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 In essence, the workshop aims to synergise the Smart Partnership between Upcoming Training the Public Sector, business and R&D communities by leveraging their skills and resources in achieving the Phase II OSS targets. June 2nd – 3rd, 2009 The Smart Partnetship Framework explicitly introduces the Industry Intro. To OpenOffice.org Participation Plan which emphasises three important areas: June 17th , 2009 1. OSS Human Capital Development Using MyMeeting 2. OSS Technical Support and Implementation To register, please visit: 3. OSS R&D. http://www.oscc.org.my/cont ent/view/9/15/ The desired and expected outcomes, driven by discussions and perspectives of the participants are as follows; Other Highlights 1. Enhanced Industry Participation Plan with input from stakeholders. OSSRA 2. More responsive business and OSS communities with regard to Public Sector needs. Open Source Software 3. Better understanding on the Phase II Strategies of the Public Sector Reference Architecture is OSS Master Plan and its current status. available for download from 4. Ability to share experiences and to contribute their expertise to the OSCC Portal. Smart Partnership. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ The workshop also featured MAMPU's ongoing project to establish the content/view/201/243/ Panel of OSCC MAMPU Products Service Providers, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2009. WAG In addition, MOSTI/MDeC had presented the details of the funding opportunities or grants offered to eligible parties. These funding Web Application Guidelines opportunities are made available through the collaborative efforts of is available for download MAMPU and MOSTI to help develop the local ICT industry. from OSCC Portal. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ Numerous resolution were made in all the three areas of the Industry content/view/202/246/ Participation Plan. Highlights of the resolution include: • Formation of the OSS Alliance among industry players to achieve OSS Charter under PIKOM • Provision of template for improvement on e-Marketplace. • Sharing of OSCC MAMPU helpdesk summarised report to the public. • Promotion of available OSCC MAMPU resources. • Organisation and participation of “code fest” event. • Collaboration of promotional and awareness activities for MOE. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 2
3. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Registration now open for OSS Opportunity Resources Workshop OSS Implementation OSCC MAMPU is calling public sector agencies to register for the OSS Guidelines Opportunity Workshop. The workshop is held bi-monthly to continously OSS Implementation encourage, assist and support public sector agencies in their OSS Guidelines is available for implementation. download from OSCC portal. Target Group http://www.oscc.org.my/cont ent/view/25/208/ The Open Source Software (OSS) Opportunity Workshop is specifically designed for and targeted at public sector agencies who have not implemented OSS based on MAMPU's record. Registration is also open to OSCC Mailing list agencies who have implemented OSS although their places are subject to availability. To subscribe to our mailing lists please visit Objectives http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailm an/listinfo ● Ensure that 100% of Public Sector Agencies adopt OSS, which is one of the targets of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan Phase II; e-Marketplace ● Enhance the knowledge of OSS by providing latest and relevant Government agencies can OSS information to Public Sector Agencies; now post service requests ● Understand the challenges and barriers faced by these agencies in and find service providers OSS implementation; with the new e-Marketplace. ● Provide and equip agencies with the necessary information and skills to overcome the challenges and barriers to OSS http://knowledge.oscc.org.my implementation. /e-marketplace ● Develop the growth and implementation of OSS in the Public Sector. ● Stimulate and enhance the growth of local ICT industry. Knowledge Bank ● Serves as a platform for sharing of knowledge and experience. Open Source Competency Capacity Centre, MAMPU's Knowledge Bank is a public The one-day OSS Opportunity Workshop is limited to 24 persons. Community of Practice area for Open Source Software Eligibility Implementors. All public sector government agencies and public institutes of higher For further information and to learning (IPTA) are eligible, preferably, I.T personnel who can make be part of the community, decision or strong recommendation to adopt OSS in the organisation. please visit http://knowledge.oscc.org.my Registration and Enquiry Public Sector agencies who have not used OSS are now encouraged to register for the upcoming OSS Opportunity workshop which is scheduled to be held on 18th June 2009. For registration and enquiries, please contact marketing@oscc.org.my or call 03-83191200. Please register early as registration will be closed when full. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 3
4. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Session outline There will be four (4) sessions for each workshop: Session 1: Introduction to Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan and assistance available for all Public Sector Agencies. Session 2: Presentation, demonstration and installation guide on OSCC MAMPU products. Session 3: Round-table or grouped discussions on OSS implementation at agencies. Session 4: Presentation by each group on conclusion. Expected outcome Public Sector Agencies who have not implemented OSS are expected to adopt and move forward with any appropriate OSS in lieu of proprietary software in their organisations. Previous Workshop updates To date, two (2) OSS Opportunity Workshops have been successfully held by OSCC MAMPU, and were attended by 42 personnel from 33 public sector agencies. Unknowingly, many of the participating public sector agencies have been implementing OSS. In a survey to rate the effectiveness of the workshops, public sector agencies had given the ratings of “good to excellent” for all the four (4) sessions. Both the OSS Opportunity Workshops had acquainted Public Sector Agencies with MyMeeting during the second session of workshop in which demo and installation guide were presented. Encik Omar Bin Yaakop, MAMPU Principal Assistant Director, MAMPU and OSCC Staff, and delegates from Public Sector Agencies after the second OSS Opportunity Workshop on 13th April 2009 In an effort to achieve the objective of the Malaysia Public Sector OSS Master Plan Phase II, OSCC MAMPU has been striving to assist and support all public sector agencies to adopt OSS. The workshop enables OSCC MAMPU to identify the challenges or barriers that deter agencies from implementing OSS in their organisations. Full information on OSS implementation at each agency are published fortnightly on OSCC MAMPU's portal at http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/227/139/ from which agencies are able to check the accuracy of MAMPU's record. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 4
5. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Participants of the first and second OSS Opportunity Workshops The first and second workshops were attended by 16 and 17 public sector agencies respectively as follows: First OSS Opportunity Workshop on 17 March 2009: 1. Lembaga Kemajuan Wilayah Pulau Pinang (PERDA) 2. Jabatan Mufti Negeri Selangor 3. Jabatan Kerja Raya Negeri Selangor 4. Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Negeri Selangor 5. Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) 6. Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya 7. Majlis Perbandaran Kajang 8. Pejabat Daerah dan Tanah Seberang Perai Selatan 9. Majlis Perbandaran Sibu 10. Majlis Daerah Hulu Selangor 11. Perbadanan Pembangunan Ekonomi Negeri Sarawak 12. Perbadanan Tabung Pembangunan Kemahiran 13. Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Selangor 14. Pejabat Daerah dan Tanah Seberang Perai Tengah 15. Perbendaharaan Negeri Johor 16. Lembaga Perlesenan Tenaga Atom (AELB) Second OSS Opportunity Workshop on 13 April 2009 1. Lembaga Maktab Mahmud 2. Yayasan Perak 3. Perbadanan Taman Negeri Perak 4. Kementerian Belia dan Sukan 5. Lembaga Penggalakan Pelancongan Malaysia 6. Lembaga Pembangunan dan Lindungan Tanah (PELITA) 7. Pejabat KDYMM Sultan Kedah 8. Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA) 9. Jabatan Ukur Dan Pemetaan Malaysia (JUPEM) 10. Majlis Agama Islam Negeri Johor 11. Lembaga Penasihat 12. Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Negeri Sabah 13. Lembaga Pelabuhan Johor 14. Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Negeri Johor 15. Lembaga Kemajuan Johor Tenggara (KEJORA) 16. Yayasan Pembangunan Keluarga Darul Takzim 17. Jabatan Latihan Khidmat Negara (JLKN) You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 5
6. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Epitome of OSS Implementation The Solid Waste & Public Cleansing Corporation (Perbadanan Pengurusan Sisa Pepejal Dan Pembersihan Awam)(PPSPPA) has set to revolutionise its entire ICT facilities with OSS. In essence, PPSPPA is committed to replacing and adding new ICT hardware and software in the year ahead to accommodate its massive OSS deployment at headquarters and all state branches in Peninsular Malaysia. The ICT hardware and software include 1,000 PCs installed with ubuntu, printers, other peripherals, networking set-up, etc. PPSPPA is in the midst of installing and setting up a centralised server at headquarters for use by all states branches in Peninsular Malaysia. A total of eight (8) servers running on Red Hat Linux Operating systems will be installed to accommodate all applications and ICT facilities. In an effort to protect their networks and improve connectivity, Endian Firewall has already been installed on one of the server. Specifically, it is an open source Linux distribution that specializes on Routing/Firewalling and Unified Threat Management. Some of the planned or implemented OSS include: • SquirrelMail installed in the server. • Open LDAP Directory Server • Internet Access Control through LDAP Application Server. • OSCC MAMPU's MyNetWatch, MySpamGuard, MyWorkSpace, MyMeeting and MySurveillance. • OpenOffice.org For desktop application, PPSPPA is beginning to deploy OpenOffice.org for its 220 users at headquarters, and over 500 users at all states branches. Training will be conducted in-house for the above massive OSS deployment exercise. 2009 OSS Case Study Awards OSCC MAMPU is calling for submission of OSS Case Studies for the 2009 National OSS Case Study Awards, which are open to ALL Public Sector Agencies including Public Higher Education Institutions (IPTA) and Polytechnics. The awards are classified into three (3) groups; Group 1: Public Sector Agencies other than IPTA & Polytechnics; Group 2: IPTA & Polytechnics; and Group 3: IPTA & Polytechnics Students. Submissions of the OSS Case Studies are encouraged for knowledge sharing purpose. Please do not resubmit the OSS Case Studies submitted in 2008. The best OSS Case Studies will be eligible for the Final National OSS Case Study Awards 2009 which will be held in conjunction with MyGOSSCON 2009 in November 2009. Please submit enquiries and the case studies, to casestudy@oscc.org.my or call 03-83191200. If the case study files are too large to be sent by email, please provide a link. All OSS case study submissions will be compiled and uploaded to OSCC MAMPU's website. Selected case studies may also be compiled into a publication. Further information including templates and sample case study are available at: http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/194/128/ You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 6
7. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Cool Certification With COOOL Putrajaya. In a continuing response to the increasing number of OpenOffice.org migrations amongst public sector agencies, OSCC MAMPU recently launched the first Certified OpenOffice.org and Linux desktop (COOOL) certification programme on the 18 - 22 May 2009. In essence, the COOOL certification is launched for the benefit of all public sector agencies. It is approved by the OSS Certification Steering Committee. It will provide agencies with a solid technical skills in OpenOffice.org and Linux Desktop. Specifically, it focuses on the common features and use of OpenOffice.org (OOo), troubleshooting, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tools and the linux desktop usage. Successful candidate will obtain the certification issued by MAMPU that sets them apart from other office suite users. Entry Requirements: Candidates interested to register for the certification must have completed either the Linux desktop & OpenOffice.org or Introduction to OpenOffice.org course offered by OSCC MAMPU. The certification programme requires candidates to attend a four-day preparation course followed by one-day examination. COOOL will benefit agencies who need to support implementation of OpenOffice.org, which involves usage of advanced editing, functionalities and analyses. Agencies are welcomed to join the OSCC-Discuss or OSCC-Training at http://lists.oscc.org.my for updates. As of April 2009, 4,532 personnel of public sector agencies have been trained by OSCC MAMPU. The breakdown of participants into training categories is depicted below: No . o f T ra ining pa rt icipa nt s (Ma rch 2 0 0 7 - 1 7 April 2 0 0 9 ) by t he T ra ining ca t e go rie s 29 606 448 574 906 Progra mming Applica tion S ys te m Product Ce rtifie d Full details on training courses are available at: http://training.oscc.org.my You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 7
8. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 The 2009 MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference MAMPU and MDEC have jointly organised the MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference which will be held for three days at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur from 31 May - 3 June, 2009. The conference incorporates a "Quadruple play" of 4 crucial stakeholders consisting of government, businesses, developers and community in envisioning open source's contribution to the IT industry and socio-economy. It is positioned as International forum for sharing and exchanging ideas on technical advancements, applications, development and business cases on open source, and its positive impact in meeting challenges of the current economic climate. In addition, it features renowned speakers from prime Open Source Enterprises such as Mozilla, Google and Red Hat and also the developer community such as Ubuntu, BSD, Fedora, PHPs, etc . The objective of this conference: • Provide exposure and knowledge on the importance of Open Source in enhancing competitiveness by giving freedom of choice in software usage with lower total cost of ownership, hence benefiting businesses and society at large. Over 30 session tracks are made available. • Share amongst the open source community on new directions and latest innovations by the subject matter experts, thought leaders and industry gurus. • Provide a platform for conference participants to actively interact, share and exchange views, ideas, and tools on the latest trends and issues of Open Source. • Provide a platform for networking and learning. The conference is organised for: • Business executives from MSC Malaysia and Non-MSC Malaysia Status companies • Open Source developers, communities, inventors, evangelist, researchers, strategist • Government officers • Students and general public The Conference invites developers, designers, systems administrators, community leaders, innovators, CTOs and CIOs, evangelists and activists, researchers, strategists, and entrepreneurs to lead and contribute during all conference sessions, tutorials and discussions. For further enquiry, please visit: http://www.mscmalaysia.my/article/open+Source+Convention/Package Online registration for OSCONF 2009 is now closed. Please register onsite at Berjaya Time Square & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur on 31st May 2009, 8 a.m to 5 p.m. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 8
9. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Latest OSS Adoption Trend Year 2009 looks more promising for increase in OSS implementation amongst public sector agencies. To date, 485 public sector agencies have implemented OSS based on MAMPU's database. This figure constitutes approximately 67% of the 724 public sector agencies as listed in MAMPU's database. The database is updated and published fortnightly. Currently, there are 1,554 OSS implementation with total known savings of over RM 48 million. For OSS implementation by solution areas, Infrastructure solution constitutes the largest proportion, i.e. 35.6% of the total OSS implementation. The breakdown is shown below: Statistics of OSS Imple me ntation amongst Age ncie s Statistics o f OSS Imp le me ntatio n b y so lutio n Are as De s ktop S olutions Fe d. Govt. I nfra s tructure de ploying OSS 5% 2% S olutions 219 State Govt. 5% Applica tion 231 S olutions de ploying OSS 34 % Workloa d Cons olida tion Fe d. Govt. not de ploying OSS 19% High Pe rforma nce Computing State Govt. not Dis tribute d de ploying OSS Ente rpris e 8 266 36% The Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan Phase II will end in approximately nine (9) month before moving on to Phase III of self-reliance. The onus is on the 239 public sector agencies who have not implemented OSS to implement at least an Open source solution. To ensure that all public sector agencies adopt OSS within Phase II of the Master Plan, OSCC MAMPU is urging agencies who have yet to implement OSS to contact OSCC MAMPU for supports and assistance in their OSS implementation. A more detailed OSS Implementation for Public Sector Agencies is available at: http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/227/139/. All public sector agencies are requested to contact OSCC MAMPU for updates on their latest OSS implementation. In particular, agencies who have implemented OSS in practice but are stated otherwise in the above published record are strongly encouraged to contact OSCC MAMPU for updates. To update, please contact marketing@oscc.org.my or call 03-83191200 ext 826. Alternatively, please download and send in the completed feedback form via email or fax 03-83193206. The feedback form is downloadable from the above URL. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 9
10. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Wondrously Portable Latest OSS technology has brought about revolutionary changes in running computer programs. This is the promise of PortableApps.com, the portable software library. PortableApps.com is an exciting project of compilation of free and open source portable computer applications programs that run off your portable USB Flash/Thumbdrive. That's right ! You can have a full office suite (OpenOffice.org), the popular Mozilla Firefox browser and the extremely versatile media player VLC right off your USB Flash/Thumbdrives without installing on the computer. Many other applications are also available from the PortableApps.com website, including games, PDF reader, the Clamwin Anti-virus program, file archivers, multi-protocol chat program etc. All are available at no cost and without restrictive licensing. Just plug-in your drive to any MS Windows computer and select to run PortableApps.com from the Autorun list. How to Get Started? All you need to do is to navigate http://portableapps.com/suite and download the installer for Windows. You can then begin by downloading additional applications from the PortableApps.com website and begin installing on your USB Flash/Thumdrive. While a 2GB drive may suffice, a 4GB will allow you plenty of room to store applications and data. You can also save data back into the USB drive, therefore making it an ideal data/application drive on the go. Full instructions are on the website. Give it a spin, it's free in both price and freedom. You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 10
11. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 MyWorkSpace - MAMPU's OSCC Products Update MyWorkSpace is a web-based email collaboration suite. Users can read, send and organize email messages, manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. Features: • Public and shared resources (address books, notepads, calendar, task lists). • Translated into 41 languages including right-to-left scripts and unicode support. • Customizable portal screen including applets for weather, quotes, etc. • Synchronization with PDAs, mobile phones, groupware clients. Integrated user management, group support and permission system. • User preferences with configurable default values. • Strong integration, e.g. address book lookups in meeting planning, task due dates in calendar. • Platform independent: works on any web server with PHP support i.e Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X Server. • Secure, reliable and scalable solution Government agencies implementing MyWorkSpace are: 1. Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang Negeri Selangor 2. Kementerian Luar Negeri 3. Pejabat Setiausaha Negeri Kerajaan Perlis 4. Institut Integriti Malaysia 5. Polis Diraja Malaysia, Cawangan Khas 6. Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat 7. MAMPU 8. Jabatan Mineral & Geosains 9. Bahagian Hal Ehwal Undang-Undang, JPM 10. CEDEC, USM All public sector agencies are encouraged to download MyWorkSpace for free at: http://myworkspace.oscc.org.my. For further enquiries, please contact our helpdesk at 03-83191201 or email helpdesk@oscc.org.my You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 11
12. Bi-quarterly Newsletter OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 3/2009 May 2009 Vietnam Mandates Open Source For All Government Staff The deployment of Open Source in the governments are prevalent in 2008. Government agencies all over Europe are adopting, and in many cases, mandating Open Source software and standards. In addition, governments in Africa, Asia, North & South America, and all over the South Pacific were exploring and implementing Open Source in 2008. On January 2009, the government of Vietnam has mandated Open Source for both local and federal government staff by 2010, and Open Source on all government servers by the end of June 2009. This is the instruction issued by Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications. Specifically, the decision was announced by Le Doan Hop, who reportedly asked agencies to "increase the number of documents and information" that they exchange with the approved open source applications. The endorsed OSS are OpenOffice, Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox, and Unikey, a Vietnamese typing program. Three (3) explicit timelines have also been set by Ministry of Information and Communications for this radical transition: 1. By Jun. 30, 2009: All government servers must be open source software. All staff must be trained to use the Open Source Software. Half of staff must be able to use the software proficiently. 2. By Dec. 31, 2009: 70 percent of national and state agencies must use open source desktop software. 70 percent of IT staff must be trained to support it, and 40 percent able to use the software in their own work. 3. Dec. 31, 2010: All staff must use open source software in their jobs. This massive transition plan will be implemented with assistance from I.T Associations. PC vendors were requested to install open source software, rather than "cracked" commercial software, on the systems they sell. Further information are available at http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/01/822425/ Editorial Board Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri (MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)) - Advisor Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak (MAMPU Director (BDPICT)) - Chief Editor Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director (BDPICT)) – Deputy Chief Editor Managers (OSCC MAMPU) - Contributors You are welcomed to submit your article for publication in the next Newsletter. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/252/294/ or call 03-83191200. 12

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1. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 Impressive Yet Free Putrajaya 1st April 2009. The recently released OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 does not only boast a user-friendly interface but a slew of additional features that promise to make working with documents a breeze. The Government has started using OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 in a massive deployment exercise. Recently, about 500 headmasters and principals of all schools in Terengganu received OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 CDs from the State Inside Education Department for implementation at the schools. ● Impressive Yet Free MAMPU has also deployed OpenOffice.org 3.01 on all its PCs and ● Successful OpenOffice notebooks in the organisation. Implementation ● Proud Moment for Malaysian ● OSS Adoption Workshop ● New Milestones ● OSS Technology Updates ● Latest Adoption Trend ● International Visitation ● Formation of OIPDC ● OSCC Products Updates ● World Government OSS OSCC Newsletter covers the latest issues and updates related to Open Source Software in Malaysia. OSCC Newsletters are developed by Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU. MAMPU, is the central agency responsible for leading change and modernisation in the public service. MAMPU's Awareness Program Proof Of Concept (POC) Open Source Software (OSS) Open Source Competency Centre is Sekolah KPM Negeri Terengganu first and single point of reference for support and guidance in the implementation of Open Source Software in the Public Sector. For more information visit http://www.oscc.org.my or contact@oscc.org.my According to the benchmark report produced by R&D department of This document is released under a MAMPU's OSCC, this version has many extra features and benefits Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 compared to previous version. License Malaysia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/2.5/my/ 1
2. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 Some of the additional great features of OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 include: Upcoming Training 1. The Multi-page view in OpenOffice.org Writer allows simultaneous April 16th 2009 previewing and editing. Using MyNetWatch 2. The popular PDF export utility is now built in with the option to April 27th, - 30th, 2009 secure the PDF export with a password and to restrict the Linux Network Administration permissions of the reader. To register, please visit: 3. It has greater interoperability for it can read/open 15% more file http://www.oscc.org.my/cont formats (at 62 types) than OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, including the MS ent/view/9/15/ Office 2007 file format. 4. 20% lower memory consumption compared to OpenOffice.org Other Highlights 2.4.2. OSSRA 5. 12% faster cold starts-up than OpenOffice.org 2.4.2. Open Source Software Reference Architecture is 6. “On-the-fly” modification of languages on the paragraph level. available for download from OSCC Portal. 7. Better identification of annotators in a document by assigning different colours to the individual annotator. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ 8. Ability to import and work with the open standard SVG (Scalable content/view/201/243/ Vector Graphics) format; used in many graphical suites and in the Internet. WAG 9. OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Impress now has native table support without Web Application Guidelines relying on OpenOffice.org Calc's embedded spreadsheet. is available for download from OSCC Portal. 10. Larger sheet size support; 1024 columns for Calc and 300cmx300cm paper sizes for Draw. For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ 11. Extensions can now be updated in OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 content/view/202/246/ The number of Public Sector Agencies deploying OpenOffice.org has increased significantly by 734.3% from just 32 in January 2008 to 267 in March 2009. Total known OpenOffice.org installed seats as at April 2009 is 18,712. The following diagram shows the increase in OpenOffice.org Adoption amongst Public Sector Agencies from January 2008 to March 2009. 2
3. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 Resources No. of Agencie s Reporting Usage of OpenOf f ice.org N o . o f Age ncie s 300 OSS Implementation 247252 260267 Guidelines 250 200 OSS Implementation 137137137137137 157157 Guidelines is available for 150 107107 85 86 86 87 89 download from OSCC portal. 100 63 64 68 47 50 32 32 OpenOffice.org http://www.oscc.org.my/cont ent/view/25/208/ 0 31/01/08 1/3/08 19/03/08 7/5/08 29/05/08 20/06/08 23/06/08 02/07/08 08/07/08 22/07/08 05/08/08 14/08/08 27/08/08 08/09/08 16/09/08 22/09/08 29/09/08 13/10/08 04/12/08 11/12/08 23/01/09 13/02/09 10/03/09 31/03/09 OSCC Mailing list To subscribe to our mailing Dat e lists please visit http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailm an/listinfo Source: MAMPU's OSCC OSS Adoption Database adapted from JPA list of Public Sector Agencies. e-Marketplace With the powerful yet easy-to use features in OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, more Public Sector Agencies are expected to migrate to OpenOffice.org by the Government agencies can end of Phase II of the Malaysian Government OSS Master Plan. now post service requests and find service providers OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 can be downloaded from: with the new e-Marketplace. 1. http://mirror.oscc.org.my/openoffice/stable/3.0.1/ or http://knowledge.oscc.org.my 2. http://www.openoffice.org. /e-marketplace Successful OpenOffice.org Migrations Knowledge Bank 1. Social Welfare Department of Malaysia Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU's With the assistance from MAMPU's OSCC, Social Welfare Department of Knowledge Bank is a public Malaysia (Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Malaysia) has migrated to Community of Practice area OpenOffice.org. Implementation has already been kicked off to increase for Open Source Software additional 1,300 new PCs pre-installed with OpenOffice.org. Implementors. MAMPU's OSCC had proposed the “Train The Trainers” (TTT) program to For further information and to the Department of Social Welfare. The bespoke TTT program is specially be part of the community, arranged for the “Master Trainers” from State branches and the master please visit trainers will then arrange for training programmes at their respective http://knowledge.oscc.org.my districts. 2. Perak State Secretariat Office Perak State Secretariat Office has recently issued a policy on OpenOffice.org for its first group of 550 users at “Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan”. 3
4. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 OpenOffice.org trainings for these users have been completed, from which approximately 90 out of the 550 OpenOffice.org users are from Perak Office of State Treasury (Pejabat Kewangan Negeri Perak). Policy will be issued by end of 2009 for second group of 1,500 users from: 1. Perak Land and Mines Department 2. Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Perak 3. Perak Agriculture Department 4. Perak Town and Rural Planning Department 5. “Majlis Agama Islam Negeri Perak” (MAIPK) Training for the second group has also started for these agencies. Proud Moment For Malaysia The Malaysian team did the country proud when three out of four contestants from Malaysia emerged as champions for categories 2,3 and 4 of the international-level Open Document Format Olympiad 2009 held at Hyberabad, India from 17 – 21 February 2009. The winners for categories 2,3 and 4 are Mohd Adam Afif bin Azizan of SKBandar Baru Seri Petaling 2, Pang Yi Hui of SMK Sultan Sulaiman, and Siti Nadia binti Radhuan of Kolej Matrikulasi Pahang(KMP) respectively. The contestant from Malaysia for category 1 received consolation prize in the competition. The competition was attended by students from primary and secondary schools from India, Indonesia and Malaysia. This international participation is a collaborative effort by Ministry of Education (MOE) of Malaysia, MAMPU, Sun Microsystem and Redhat. All these four contestants were the winners of the national-level ODF Olympiad Award held during MyGOSSCON 2008 in November 2008. Winners of the ODF Olympiad 2009 at Hyberabad, India 17– 21 February 2009 4
5. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 Open Source Software Adoption Workshop In 2009, a more proactive and focused approach is being adopted to continuously support government agencies in their OSS implementation. MAMPU's OSCC has laid down a plan to conduct eighteen (18) OSS Adoption Workshops for the year 2009. The workshops are particularly designed for and targetted at Public Sector agencies who have not implemented OSS based on MAMPU's records. The objective is to achieve 100% Public Sector Agencies adopting OSS, which is one of the targets of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan Program Phase II. The first OSS Adoption Workshop has been successfully conducted at OSCC on 17 th March 2009, and was attended by 22 Government Officers from 16 Public Sector Agencies. Prior to the OSS Adoption Workhop, MAMPU's OSCC conducted a massive survey on all the agencies who have yet to implement OSS. Unknowingly, many Public Sector Agencies have already adopted OSS. It was “too good to be true” for MAMPU when 15 out of 16 participating Public Sector Agencies in the first OSS Adoption Workshop declared to have implemented OSS. Before the workshop, their OSS Implementation were unknown to MAMPU as these agencies were self-reliant in their OSS implementation. The first workshop has acquainted these Public Sector Agencies with one of OSCC products, MyMeeting, the powerful yet free online Meeting Management and Decision Making Application Suite. The second workshop is scheduled to be held at the same venue on 13th April 2009. Public Sector agencies who have not used OSS are now welcomed to register for the third OSS Adoption workshop which is scheduled to be held on 5th May 2009. To register, please contact marketing@oscc.org.my or call 03-83191200. Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director, Encik Omar Bin Yaakop, MAMPU Principal Assistant Director, OSCC Staff and delegates from Public Sector Agencies after the first OSS Adoption Workshop on 17th March 2009 5
6. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 Great Milestones 1. TaskManager goes live at Chief Secretary To The Government of Malaysia's Office MAMPU's OSCC has set another significant milestone in System Development with the launch of “TaskManager” System. TaskManager is an online task monitoring system particularly developed for The Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, Y. Bhg Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan to monitor and track all the tasks under his purview. One of the primary objectives is to monitor the status of all the assigned tasks managed in an easy-to use Calendaring System. Some of the cool features of TaskManager include: • Searching of tasks using keyword • Option to display either weekly or monthly tasks in a simple yet elegant calendar. • Tasks can be filtered into three groups, namely “Previous task”, “Upcoming deadlines” and “Outstanding task” It was developed based on Plone, the powerful and flexible Open Source Content Management System. Plone is also used in OSCC Knowledge Bank and Intranet system. The first TaskManager system was completed on 11th March 2009 and was implemented on 13th March 2009. Enhancements to TaskManager is actively underway and is scheduled to be completed in May 2009. 2. Learning Management System (LMS) Kick-off MAMPU will be kicking off the enhanced version of the MOE's Learning Management System (LMS) in May 2009 in order to achieve wider OSS adoption and implementation. The ultimate aim is to roll out this enhanced LMS to at least 50 schools nationwide. LMS is a web based Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant education application developed to facilitate the teaching and learning experience in schools. The first LMS was developed back in 2004 during Phase I of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan. Some of the benefits of the LMS include online learning and assessment, centralised data repository which allows ease of control and distribution of courseware and information, collaborative learning, training resource management, and fast report generation. It goes far beyond conventional training records management and reporting. This enhancement is built upon the success of the MOE LMS Pilot Project during Phase I of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan. MAMPU has conducted a Post Implementation Review (PIR) of LMS Pilot Project and based on the PIR findings, the following are the objectives of the LMS Enhancement Project; • Evaluate the key success factors of LMS Pilot Project and incorporate the lessons learned to fine tune and plug gaps to ensure rectification before the LMS is rolled out to more schools in Malaysia. • Reinforce buy-in for the project by including users’ recommendations to bridge the gap between current LMS performance against requirements and expectations. • Update on available technology, network infrastructure, tools and software. • Accelerate Adoption: Roll-out LMS to at least 50 schools throughout Malaysia 6
7. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 In summary, the LMS project is a crucial step toward fulfillment of the “Each District, One OSS School” program, which is a comprehensive nationwide rollout plan to encourage at least one school in each district to make use of OSS solutions, with the vision to ensure wide, broad and deep OSS adoption taking place in accelerated pace. This is in line with MOE's longer term strategic roadmap for expanding Smart Schools to about 10,000 schools by the year 2010. The figure below shows the three distinct phases of the LMS project according to the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan: Phase I - Laying t he Fo undat io n & Early Ado pt io n: LMS Pilo t - Proof of Concept for: * Open Source Technology (using Open Source LMS) * Various system architectures (desktop, thin client, hosted) * Independent learning management system * Courseware repository - Provide essential LMS features and functionalities - Implement in 3 Pilot Schools Phase II - Accelerat ed Ado pt io n: LMS Enhancement - Enhanced LMS features and functionalities: * Address shortfall & gaps in LMS Pilot * Extend LMS features and capabilities * Introduce new modules and capabilities. * Update technology * Provide a richer and complete LMS ready for nationwide users Phase III - Self Reliance - Nationwide roll out by MOE 7
8. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 OSS Technology Updates - Android The new cutting edge Open Source Technology Mobile Phone, Android has evolved. Android is both a software platform and operating system developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance for mobile devices, based on the Open Linux kernel. It is built with the fully-fledged functionalities that enable customisation based on one's needs. Some of the fantastic features of mobile applications using this state-of- the-art OSS Technologies include; • Swapping up of phone's homescreen. • Change of the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. • The built-in Photo Viewing Application can be instructed to handle the viewing of all photos. From the developer's perspective, it can amazingly combine information from the web with data on an individual's mobile phone such as the user's contacts, calendar, or geographic location. With Android, a developer can build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect. Applications can be devoloped easily with Android. It enables developers to obtain the location of the device, and allows devices to communicate with one another enabling rich peer-to-peer social applications. In addition, Android includes a full set of tools that have been built from the ground up alongside the platform providing developers with high productivity and deep insight into their applications. With its software platform capability, developers can also write managed code in Java language. It can compile application written in C and other languages to ARM native code. Most of the Android code are released under the Apache license, a free software and open source license. Android Software Development Toolkit (SDK) is available for download at http://developer.android.com/ Latest OSS Adoption Trend MAMPU's Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) is now progressing into the penultimate year of the Phase II of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan. As of April 2009, 452 agencies have implemented OSS with over 1,400 known implementation. This also shows a remarkable 1,708% surge from just 25 agencies in 2003. A more detailed OSS Implementation for Public Sector Agencies is available at: http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/227/139/. The surge in OSS adoption is becoming more prevalent among Public Sector Agencies. An ever increasing number of government agencies have now reaped the manifold benefits of OSS such as lower costs, freedom from vendor lock-in and an increased growth of knowledge-based Public Sector Agencies. To date, over RM 47 million have already been saved on licensing and implementation costs and over 30,000 Public Sector staff and community trained in OSS projects. International Visitation Mr. Hassan Al-lamushe, the Libya General Director and the president of the Libyan Internet Society, has expressed interest in seeking ideas and information exchange in OSS during his visit to MAMPU's OSCC on 19th January 2009. In a meeting chaired by MAMPU Deputy Director, Madam Tan King Ing, Mr. Hassan Al- lamushe wanted to understand the initiatives that the Government of Malaysia (GOM) took to encourage and support Public Sector Agencies in OSS implementation. He also shared information on influential groups and experts in the area of cyber security, and strategic directions of the Organisation of The Islamic Conference- Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT) which he had attended on 13th to 15th January 2009 prior to visiting OSCC. 8
9. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 The Formation of the Open Source Software IPTA/Politeknik Development Committee (OIPDC) A meeting was held at MAMPU's OSCC on 5th February 2009 to discuss the decision made by JPOSS (Jawatankuasa Pemandu OSS) about the establishment of the Open Source Software IPTA/Polytechnic Development Committee (OIPDC), its chairman and members. In essence, this establishment or formation has been endorsed by OSS Steering Committee in executing one of the key action plans, namely “OSS In Education” under the Strategic Thrust (3) of the Malaysia Government OSS Master Plan. With the formation of OIPDC in replacement of OSS Education Protem Committee (Protem), new terms of reference and governance structure were proposed. All activities will be reported to OSS Steering Committee. In essence, the proposed terms of reference for OIPDC include firstly, the adoption of OSS in teaching and R&D within and among IPTA/Politeknik, and secondly, to support of OSS activities and programs within and among the Institutions involved. MAMPU's OSCC Products Updates 1. MyMeeting Version 2.2 MyMeeting, the award-winning and Malaysian Government first fully open source software, has received favourable feedbacks from Public Sector Agencies. This award signifies that MyMeeting has reached greater heights in terms of quality and recognition on which a benchmark can be set. MAMPU's OSCC has released its latest version of MyMeeting, version 2.2, which has recently been uploaded to Sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mymeeting/, which is a popular OSS application repository. This is part of MAMPU's contribution to the global OSS community. Some of the many features that are enhanced in this latest version are:- ● Password recovery, ● Viewable history of status and project report, ● “Bahasa Malaysia” interface As an introduction to those who are new to MyMeeting, it is a web application specifically designed to help better manage your meetings and get more out of them. It was initially developed at the Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC), and is the Malaysian Government's first fully open source software. To date, twenty-two (22) agencies have installed MyMeeting. Most of these agencies have implemented it whilst a few agencies are evaluating the viabilities of this application. These agencies are: 1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2. Universiti Malaya 3. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 4. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus 5. Perbadanan Harta Intelek Malaysia 6. Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang 9
10. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 7. SUK Pahang 8. SUK Penang 9. Jabatan Pelajaran Negeri Terengganu 10. Jabatan Ketua Pengarah Tanah & Galian 11. Jabatan Audit Negara 12. Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam 13. Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya 14. Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (MOH), BTMK 15. Jabatan Pelajaran Negeri Pahang 16. Lembaga Kemajuan Kelantan Selatan (KESEDAR) 17. Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia 18. MAMPU 19. Majlis Perbandaran Jasin 20. Perbadanan Kemajuan Iktisad Kelantan 21. MOSTI 22. UST ICT Johor Any agency who is using or testing MyMeeting but is not listed above, please contact us at marketing@oscc.org.my or fax to 03-83193206. This latest version and its user manual are available for download at: http://mymeeting.oscc.org.my 2. Advanced Virtualization Facility (AVF) - Free facility to remotely try out OSS Solutions MAMPU's OSCC has been striving to provide the best services to all Public Sector Agencies. For the benefit of all agencies, a unique and free facility called Advanced Virtualization (AVF) is available to Public Sector agencies to test and evaluate OSS solutions remotely by utilizing hardware resources at OSCC. With AVF, agencies can try out OSCC products or other OSS Solutions before making a decision to implement the solution. It is provided for a fixed period to enable more agencies to utilize the facility. Benefits of the AVF include: ● Optimum use of hardware ● Cost effective test drive of OSS solutions ● Concurrent support of multiple operating systems ● Technical consultancy from OSCC during evaluation For further information, please visit http://avf.oscc.org.my. Alternatively, you may also contact our helpdesk directly to try and test OSS Solutions for free at 03-8319 1201 or helpdesk@oscc.org.my. 10
11. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 International Governments OSS Updates Various governments around the world have been embarking on OSS and have launched initiatives to reap its benefits. There is a significant trend towards incorporating OSS into procurement and development policies. Besides the large number of reports and white papers recommending OSS solutions, there are 275 Open Source Policies Initiatives around the world according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies dated July 2008. Europe is also an area with strong government interests in OSS. In particular, the European Union, Germany, France and the United Kingdom are leading the way in OSS development. 1. UK Government Policy on Open Source and Open Standards The UK government has revised its 2004 policy on open source software to take a more positive stance on encouraging the use of open source software for government IT systems. This is made viable by introducing an action plan that will ensure the theory is put into practice. The new policy is contained within the Government Action Plan namely Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use. One of the most active proponents of OSS is the National Health Service, in part due to the insolvency of a proprietary software vendor that forced hospitals to migrate to Linux. Besides, it is reported that OSS usage has since increased specifically for web server and Directgov, the official UK government website. Enterprise class OSS support services have grown, and the major I.T players are now actively supporting OSS and Open Standards. In addition to the savings on licensing fees, the business needs of wanting more re-use of existing I.T assets, more transparency in the procurement process and an establishment of a valid IT ecosystem were also drivers in this decision. The UK Government has today announced full backing for greater adoption of Open Source solutions in the public sector. According to the article at the BBC News site, Government Departments will be required to adopt open source software when "there is no significant overall cost difference between open and non-open source products" because of its inherent flexibility. For more information of Uk Government OSS initiative, please visit: http://archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-envoy/frameworks-oss-policy/$file/oss-policy.htm 2. OSS Adoption in France France started to look into the benefits of OSS in the early 2000. The French Gendarmerie Nationale (national police) is composed of the police forces and the military police with over 100,000 employees distributed across the country. In 2001, the decision to explore OSS implementation started and by 2005 OpenOffice.org (OOo) was implemented. Other OSS implementation like Firefox (web browser) and Thunderbird (email & calendaring client) soon followed. Since they have managed to develop their employees with OSS skills, their next plan is for the migration to Linux desktops. The French Ministry of Agriculture has migrated over 500 servers to Mandriva Linux since 2005. This is mainly to replace its MS Windows NT servers. A total of 15,000 employees is under this Ministry. Plans are underway to have an additional 400 servers on Linux. The French Parliament moves towards OpenOffice.org in 2007. Following that Ubuntu Linux will be used as the desktop operating system. This will be over 1,000 PCs running Ubuntu Linux, which translate to even more opportunities to use the hundreds of OSS solutions through the Ubuntu Software Repository. 11
12. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 2/2009 April 2009 Editorial Board Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri (MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)) - Advisor Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak (MAMPU Director (BDPICT)) - Chief Editor Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director (BDPICT)) – Deputy Chief Editor Managers (Open Source Competency Centre) - Contributors 12

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1. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 RM40 million Savings From OSS Adoption Putrajaya 23rd December 2008. MAMPU has revealed that total known licensing fee savings from OSS adoption in Public Sector is estimated to be approximately RM40 million. The savings could be utilized elsewhere to develop Malaysia's GDP growth. Public Sector agencies are encouraged to implement OSS, which will help boost ICT Services industry. Savings on licensing fee alone by adopting OpenOffice.org have already exceeded RM12 million, which is based on the total installed seats of 12,760 at public sector agencies. Other OSS projects in Public Sector Agencies with substantial savings are: Inside Projects Savings (RM) 1. OSS Infrastructure in 250 offices for Perak State Secretariat Office (SUK Perak) 900,000 ● RM40million Savings 2. OSS On Every Desktop in Melaka Historical From OSS Adoption City Council (MBMB) 120,000 ● MyMeeting Wins 3. OSS For Applications – Terengganu State “Innovation Awards For Economic Development Corporation (PMINT) 700,000 Public Service 2008” 4. Cube Application – Ministry of Health 5,349,658 ● MyGOSSCON 2008 ● Other Major MyMeeting Wins “Innovation Awards For Conferences Public Service 2008” ● Latest OSS Adoption Putrajaya 27th November 2008. MyMeeting, a product originally developed Trend by OSCC MAMPU for Government IT and Internet Committee (GITIC), has ● Editorial Board won the prestigious Innovation Awards For Public Service 2008. This is in conjunction with the Public Sector Quality Awards (AKSA), which is the event organised by MAMPU to give recognition and appreciation to Public Sector Agencies. YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Prime OSCC Newsletters covers the latest Minister has presented the awards to all winners. issues and updates related to Open Source Software in Malaysia. OSCC Newsletters are developed by Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU. MAMPU, is the central agency responsible for leading change and modernisation in the public service. MAMPU's Open Source Competency Centre is first and single point of reference for support and guidance in the implementation of Open Source Software in the Public Sector. For more information visit http://www.oscc.org.my or contact@oscc.org.my ● Prime Minister YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi accompanied by This document is released under a Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia Y. Bhg Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Hassan, presenting the AIPA Award to MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' License Malaysia. Normah Bt Md. Yusof. http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/2.5/my/ 1
2. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 In essence, MyMeeting was awarded in recognition of its online paperless Upcoming Training meeting management application system which uses state-of-the-art ICT technologies and functionalities in managing and monitoring meeting January 6th to 8th , 2009 decisions effectively, allowing efficient and effective information sharing PHP Programming & MySQL integrated with many other powerful features. For more information on Database (Basic) MyMeeting, please visit http://mymeeting.oscc.org.my. January 8th , 2009 Using MyNetWatch January 12th - 15th , 2009 Linux Network Administration Other Highlights OSSRA Open Source Software Reference Architecture is available for download from OSCC Portal. Prime Minister YAB Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi accompanied by Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia Y. Bhg Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, For more information, please MAMPU Director General Dato' Normah, MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah and MAMPU Deputy Director (BDPICT) Madam Tan King Ing content/view/201/243/ for MyMeeting demo at OSCC MAMPU booth. The Public Sector Quality Awards (AKSA) are viewed as a recognition and appreciation given particularly to agencies in the Public Sector that have WAG shown outstanding performance in quality management. The awards are part Web Application Guidelines of the activities under the Excellent Culture Practices. is available for download Few other awards were also presented in conjunction with the event such as from OSCC Portal. Prime Minister’s Quality Award (PMQA), Innovation Award for Joint Research For more information, please between Public Sector and Private Sector and Premier Award for Local visit http://www.oscc.org.my/ Government Authority (PALGA). content/view/202/246/ MyGOSSCON 2008 Malaysia Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON) 2008 was held at Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC) from November, 5th and 6th 2008. The conference is an event organised by MAMPU in line with the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Master Plan which was launched on 16th July 2004. It is held to further support the Phase II (Accelerated Adoption), after the completion of Phase I (Laying the Foundation & Early Adoption). Please refer to www.oscc.org.my for further details on OSCC and the master plan. 2
3. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MyGOSSCON 2008 is the second MyGOSSCON which was held following the success of the first MyGOSSCON in 2007 and was organised by Resources MAMPU with co-operation from Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry (PIKOM). OSS Implementation Guidelines The theme for the conference was Accelerate OSS Adoption for Innovative Public Service Delivery. OSS Implementation Guidelines is available for Please refer to mygosscon.oscc.org.my for further details on download from OSCC portal. MyGOSSCON. http://www.oscc.org.my/cont ent/view/25/208/ The objectives of MyGOSSCON 2008 were; ● To enhance the quality of public service delivery through OSS. OSCC Mailing list ● To proliferate OSS development and implementation in the To subscribe to our mailing public sector. lists please visit ● To enhance synergy between Business, Public Higher http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailm Education Institutions and Public Sector Communities. an/listinfo ● To stimulate and increase growth of the local ICT industry. ● To provide a platform for sharing of knowledge and experience e-Marketplace among the participants. Government agencies can now post service requests and find service providers with the new e-Marketplace. http://knowledge.oscc.org.my /e-marketplace Knowledge Bank Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU's Knowledge Bank is a public Community of Practice area for Open Source Software Implementors. MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Bt Md. Yusof. officiating For further information and to MyGOSSCON 2008, on behalf of Chief Secretary to the Government of be part of the community, Malaysia Y. Bhg Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan. please visit http://knowledge.oscc.org.my MyGOSSCON 2008 featured a host of local and international speakers who had presented 34 papers covering global trends, technology, education, success stories and many more interesting topics. The slides are available for download at mygosscon.oscc.org.my/index.php/papers. 3
4. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah, with International speakers during MyGOSSCON 2008. The two days conference was targeted to participants from the Government agencies, lecturers and students from National Higher Education Institutes (Universities and Colleges), Non-Government Agencies (NGOs), Business / Industry Sector utilizing OSS and OSS Communities / Groups. OSS Showcase Exhibition was also made available to the general public to visit for latest OSS products and services. MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah presenting souvenir to international speaker during MyGOSSCON 2008 on 5th November 2008. 4
5. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah, MAMPU Director (BDPICT) Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak, MAMPU Deputy Director (BDPICT) Madam Tan King Ing, Managing Director of Dataware Sdn Bhd, Mr. Thed Chor Yong with OSCC and MAMPU team members after the success of MyGOSSCON 2008. Among the highlights in MyGOSSCON 2008 were: 1. Case Study Award - Organised as an incentive for government agencies to share knowledge on OSS implementation and showcase Malaysian OSS initiatives locally and internationally. 2. ODF Olympiad Award - An initiative to promote faster adoption of ODF which would further help in reduction in digital divide. MAMPU Director General, Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Binti Md. Yusof had presented prizes to the winners of these awards at the prize-giving ceremony. Case Study Winners: Category : Infrastructure Solution Winner : Ministry of Finance (MOF) Title : PERKASA - Web Server for National Budget Highlights : Every September each year is a busy year for MOF when www.mof.gov.my in average receive more than a 1,000,000 hits after and during Annual Budget is being announced. Previously, during Annual Budget announcement, the MOF web server was not able to handle the request resulting the server crashed and were not able to handle the users. In 2006, MOF solution to use four servers running proprietary software was an expensive solution in total and most importantly the web server still stall due to the excessive network load congesting the server resources and was not able to handle the load efficiently. In 2007, MOF has decided to leverage on the capability of OSS technology and contacted OSCC for consultancy and assistance. As a result, PERKASA - Web Server for National Budget which comprised of two servers running lighttpd on CentOS was implemented. It was awarded as winner for its innovations to use Open Source Technology which has increased the public service delivery efficiency with minimal total cost of ownership. 5
6. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Bt Md. Yusof. accompanied by MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah in presenting the OSS Case Study Award to Minister of Finance, the winner for Infrastructure category. Category : Application Solution Winner : Ministry of Health (MOH) Title : MOH CUBE Application Highlights : MOH email server was originally utilising Microsoft Exchange which was costly and not flexible. In 2007, MOH Cube was introduced to reduce cost, increase module flexibility and security. By implementing MOH Cube which was utilising OSS, the ministry had saved over RM5 million in licensing cost alone. With MOH Cube, emails can be accessed in various mediums such as via web, handphones or PDA. Besides providing email capability, MOH Cube comprised of news, calendering, e-learning as well as document management. To date, MOH Cube is utilised estimated over 30,000 users from MOH including all agencies, 135 hospitals, Pusat Kesihatan Daerah, Klinik Kesihatan, Klinik Pergigian, Kolej Jururawat and Kolej Pembantu Perubatan. This application was awarded as a winner in recognition of its substantial savings, international level quality and security. 6
7. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Bt Md. Yusof. accompanied by MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah in presenting the OSS Case Study Award to Minister of Health, the winner for Application category. Category : Desktop Solution Winner : Terengganu State Secretariat Office Title : OSS Training at Bestari.com ICT Training Centre Hightlights : Aligned with the vision, mission and objectives of State Information Management Unit for the Terengganu State Government, Bestari.com ICT Training Centre was formed. Main objective of the centre is to provide an information centre for the community which will provide facilities for the community enabling them with information as well as medium for the community to have two ways communication with State Government. In addition, OSS trainings are also being provided to the community to reduce digital divide and increase ICT literacy. Main technologies used in the training center are Open Source Solutions due to obvious benefits in return such as minimal total cost of ownership compared to proprietary solutions, enhanced security etc. By utilising OSS, Terengganu State Government had saved more than RM 500,000 in the licensing alone. It was awarded for its direct contribution that helps realize the Malaysian Government OSS Master Plan and its substantial savings. 7
8. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Bt Md. Yusof. accompanied by MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah in presenting the OSS Case Study Award to Terengganu State Secretariat Office, the winner for Desktop category. ODF Olympiad Winners: Primary 1-3 : Lim Li Fern of SJK Chung Hwa Wei Sin Primary 4-6 : Ahmad Afif Adham Bin Azizan of SK Bandar Baru Sri Petaling Secondary 1-3: Pang Yi Hui of SMK Sultan Sulaiman Secondary 4-6: Siti Nadia Binti Radhuan of Pahang Matriculation College MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Binti Md. Yusof and MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Bt Mohd Zahri with all the winners. 8
9. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 Other Major Conferences Besides MyGOSSCON 2008, two other major conferences were also organized in November 2008: 1. International Conference On Open Source Software in Healthcare (INCOSSH) - 23rd-25th November 2008 at Penang 2. Open Source Economy Conference (OSEC) - 19th November 2008 The International Conference On Open Source Software In Healthcare (INCOSSH) was jointly organized by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI), United Nation University (UNU), International Open Source Network (IOSN) and inwent with the cooperation from MAMPU and Open Source Healthcare Alliance (OSHCA). This conference provided a forum for all Health ICT adopters and potential adopters in applying open source strategy and principles to Health Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), opportunities for establishing network and collaboration in the Free/Open Source Health Care Software (FOSS) community in the deployment of FOSS health care applications. MAMPU/OSCC booth received favourable feedback from participants with regards to Open Source Software. MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Bt Mohd Zahri delivering keynote address on behalf of MAMPU Director General Y.Bhg Dato' Normah Binti Md. Yusof at INCOSSH 2008. 2. Open Source Economy Conference (OSEC) - 19th November 2008 The Open Source Economy Conference was co-organized by MDEC and Sun Microsystems, and supported by MAMPU OSCC to help achieve competitive edge in the innovation economy by adopting Open Source Software. It featured, in particular, the open Source database, MySQL from Sun. 9
10. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT) Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Bt Mohd Zahri with organisers at OSEC 2008. Potential OSS Adoption Trend The number of government agencies adopting the Open Source Software has been increasing. Recent survey by MAMPU shows that there are over 307 agencies who are planning to implement OpenOffice.org over next 6 months, as depicted in the following diagram. The top three applications being considered by most Public Sector Agencies are: 1. OpenOffice.org – Office Suite 2. Firefox – Web Browser 3. MySQL – Database using Open Source Technology OSS Considered In The Next 6 Months (as of Dec 08) 350 307 Email Client Web Browser 300 OpenOffice.org CMS CRM ERP 250 Web Server Mail Server Groupware No. of Agenc ies 200 Collaborative Tool Workload Schedulers OS Virtualisation Database 150 Others 100 50 0 OSS Applic ations /Sy s tem Currently, there is an increase of over 100 agencies since announcement of MAMPU OpenOffice.org Migration Policy. . This is largely attributed to MAMPU OpenOffice.org migration in March 2008, which spearheaded the OpenOffice.org adoption. 10
11. OSCC Quarterly Newsletter Bil. 1/2009 January 2009 Editorial Board Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri (MAMPU Deputy Director General (ICT)) - Advisor Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak (MAMPU Director (BDPICT)) - Chief Editor Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director (BDPICT)) – Deputy Chief Editor Managers (Open Source Competency Centre) - Contributors 11

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OSCC MAMPU Malaysia Oct 2008 Newsletter1 - Presentation Transcript

1. OSCC Newsletter OSCC Newsletter October 2008 MyGOSSCON 2008 – November 5-6 The MyGOSSCON 2008 is back this year on the 5th November and 6th November 2008 held at Putrajaya International Convention Centre, (PICC) Putrajaya. This conference will be officiated by the Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, Y. Bhg Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan. The Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) has successfully completed Phase I of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan Programme, which focused on Laying the Foundation and Early Adoption stages. The programme is currently in Phase II - Accelerated Adoption stage, which targets to further accelerate OSS adoption in Public Sector. The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON) is an event held to support the Phase II - Accelerated Inside Adoption. Following the success of the first MyGOSSCON in 2007, this popular event is back again this year to bring you the latest trends in OSS. ● MyGOSSCON 2008 A host of local and international speakers will present 35 papers covering ● Latest OSS Adoption global trends, technology, education, success stories and many more Trend interesting topics. The OSS Showcase Exhibition will have about 40 booths ● Linux Certified displaying various OSS solutions available for both public and private Administrator 01 sector users. ● OSS Case Study Awards 2008 OSCC Newsletters covers the latest issues and updates related to Open Source Software in Malaysia. OSCC Newsletters are developed by Open Source Competency Centre, MAMPU. MAMPU, is the central KSN officiating MyGOSSCON 2007 agency responsible for leading change and modernisation in the public service. MAMPU's Open Source Competency Centre is first and single point of reference for support and guidance in the implementation of Open Source Software in the Public Sector. For more information visit http://www.oscc.org.my or contact@oscc.org.my The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent those of the Government of Malaysia. This document is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License Malaysia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/my/ OSS Showcase Exhibition
2. OSCC Newsletter OSCC Newsletter October 2008 In line with the Phase II targets, the theme for this year is “Accelerated OSS Adoption for Innovative Public Service Delivery”. Upcoming Objectives Events • To enhance the quality of public service delivery through OSS November 22nd and 23rd • To proliferate OSS development and implementation in the public National Healthcare Seminar. sector • To enhance synergy between Business, Public Higher Education For more information, please visit : Institutions and Public Sector Communities http://bpio.amdi.usm.edu.my/incoss • To stimulate and increase growth of the local ICT industry h2008 • To provide a platform for sharing of knowledge and experience November 5th & 6th among the participants MyGOSSCON 2008 at PICC For more information, please Target Participants* visit: • Government agencies http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/ • National Higher Education Institutes (Universities and Colleges) • Non-Government Agencies (NGOs) • Business / Industry Sector utilizing OSS Upcoming • OSS Communities / Groups Training • November 10th to 13th * The Conference participants are by invitation only. The OSS Linux Network Administrator Showcase Exhibition is open to the Conference invitees as well as to the general public. November 13th Using MyMeeting November 17th Latest OSS Adoption Trend Certified Linux Administrator 01 Training Putrajaya 6th October 2008 – The number of government agencies adopting the Open Source Software has been increasing. Latest statistics show that 327 agencies have implemented OSS with over 936 known Other Highlights implementations. OSSRA The breakdowns of OSS Adoption among Public Sector Agencies into solution areas is depicted below:- Open Source Software Reference Architecture is now available for download from OSCC portal. Breakdown of OSS Adoption Among Public Sector Agencies For more information, please visit http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view /201/243/ 258 Desktop Solution WAG Infrastructure So- 295 lutions Web Application Guidelines now Application Solu- available for download from OSCC tions Portal Workload Consol- idation For more information, please visit: High Performance http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view Computing /202/246/ Distributed En- terprise 75 30 73 205
3. OSCC Newsletter OSCC Newsletter October 2008 Other Highlights Linux Certified Administrator 01 (Continued) The increase of OSS adoption have led to a substantial need to increase the number of personnel with relevant OSS skills in the Public Sector. The Certified Linux Administrator 01 (CLA01) is the main certification for Linux Administrators who need to install and maintain enterprise solutions using Linux and its administrative tools. Resources The certification path as shown requires the candidates to do a OSS Implementation practical and written test. This will be followed by a report on the Guidelines candidates participation of an OSS related project. Full details of the certification can be found at the OSCC portal. OSS Implementation Guidelines is now available for download from OSCC portal OSCC Mailing list To subscribe to our mailing lists please visit: http://lists.oscc.org.my/ mailman/listinfo OSS Development Toolkit A collection of OSS tools suitable for use in Windows environment and intended to be used for application development. For more information, please visit: http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/solutio n-areas/application/oss- development-toolkit/oss- development-toolkit/view OSS Case Study Awards OSCC is calling for submission of OSS case studies for the purpose of knowledge sharing. Those who have submitted before are also encouraged e-Marketplace to resubmit their improved/edit version of their case studies. The best case Government agencies can now post service requests and find service studies will be eligible for the National OSS Case Study Awards at providers with the new e- upcoming MyGOSSCON 2008. Marketplace. Please submit enquiries and case studies, to casestudy@oscc.org.my. http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/e-marketpla before the deadline on 10th October 2008, 5.30 p.m. If the case study files are too large to be sent by email, please provide a link. Knowledge Bank More information including templates at the following link: New and updated knowledge bank is now available. http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/194/128/ http://knowledge.oscc.org.my Additional Resources OSS Implementation Case Studies http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/case-studies/malaysian-case-studies OpenOffice.org The free and open productivity suite http://www.openoffice.org

MyGOSSCON 2009 Call for Papers

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:14:00 +0000

MyGOSSCON 2009 Call for Papers

Malaysian Government Open Source Conference (MyGOSSCON) provides a national platform to share experiences and information technology updates on open source software for the government and industry. You are invited to submit papers for presentation in the conference.

Submit you talk for MyGOSSCON 2009 now!

http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/2009/call-for-papers/

Topics of interest (but are not limited to)

* OSS provides a competitive advantage for organization or company
* Successful Case study on OSS implementation
* Latest Trends in OSS
* OSS implementation of open document standard
* OSS, preparing meets the Technical Human Capital demands
* Software As A Service
* Security
* Database
* Next Generation Data Center
* Network Communication
* Mobile Computing
* Practical Software Development
* Open Bioinformatics
* Open Source in Defense Industry
* Cloud Computing
* Social Networking
* Legal services/IPR
* Knowledge Base Society
* Going to Open Source: Essential Guidelines
* Case Study: Bridging Digital Divide
* Case Study: Starting up Open Source business
* Case Study: Commercialisation of Open Source solution

Call for paper submission procedure:

Submission of synopsis for proposed paper and speaker biodata

o Speaker’s biodata
+ Full name of presenter with contact number and email address
+ Liaison officer (if any) with contact number and email address
+ Speaker designation and organisation
+ Speaker biodata
# The information will used for website and printed materials.
+ Submission without biodata will not be considered
o Synopsis of paper
+ Title
+ Indicate if demonstration required
+ Sufficient synopsis for evaluation purposes
+ Please note that presentation must be able to fit 25 minutes speaking slot, including Q&A
o Format of submission
+ Online submission of synopsis

Upon acceptance of paper, speaker are to submit:

o Updated biodata with photo
o Presentation materials in not more than 5 MB. Format being ODP or PDF only

Evaluation criteria

1. Originality
Topics must be unique in perspective and viewpoint or way of doing something.

2. Timeliness and Interest
Topics must contain new and relevant material.

3. Educational Value
An objective presentation that meets the educational needs of the audience is optimal to enhancing the credibility of the speaker, the speaker’s employer and the conference.

4. Talks containing sales pitches will NOT be considered and may be removed even if synopsis submission was accepted.
Notification of acceptance

*** Accepted applications will be notified and all presentation materials must be submitted by the specified date. Please be aware of the following:

1. Reference Materials are Required
Our audience appreciates receiving supporting documentation to enhance their conference experience and serve as a reference when they return to the office. (If you rely on live demonstrations, your reference materials will be an outline of the demonstration with key reference points.)

2. 100% Adherence to NO COMMERCIALISM Policy
The presentations at MyGOSSCON are NOT the appropriate place for promoting your company, product, service or solution.

3. No Substitutions
Speaker and panelist substitutions are not allowed, except in the case of an emergency. In the event that a speaker cannot fulfill his/her commitment due to an emergency, a substitute may be submitted in writing for approval, however this does not guarantee a speaking slot for the substitute.

Important dates

15th September 2009 – Deadline for submission of proposed papers
29th September 2009 – Notification of acceptance to authors
19th October 2009 – Submission of full presentation material
5th & 6th November 2009 – Conference days
Contact

Email: mygosscon [at] oscc.org.my

or visit website for online form http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/2009/call-for-papers/

MyGOSSCON Official Website

http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/

MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is Open For Registration

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:03:00 +0000

MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is Open For Registration

Official Website of MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is now fully operational.

Registration is now OPEN...

http://www.mscmalaysia.my/osconf

Don't miss out on one of Malaysia Premier Conference 2009... See you all there.

MSC Malaysia's inaugural and full-fledged Open Source Conference to incorporate a 'Quadruple play' of 4 crucial stakeholders consisting of government, businesses, developers and community in envisioning open source's contribution to the IT industry and socio-economy.

Organised by MSC Malaysia and MAMPU and jointly supported by the Malaysian Open Source Community and MOSTI, the Conference invites developers, designers, systems administrators, community leaders, innovators, CTOs and CIOs, evangelists and activists, researchers, strategists, and entrepreneurs to lead and contribute during all conference sessions, tutorials and discussions.

Join us

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78169245399

Our Twitter

http://twitter.com/mscosconf

In the News

Mampu aims to adopt open source tech for cost savings

http://mscoscon.blogspot.com/2009/04/all-malaysian-government-agencies-to.html

OSCC MAMPU is calling for submission of OSS Case Studies for the 2009 National OSS Case Study Awards

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:27:00 +0000

OSCC MAMPU is calling for submission of OSS Case Studies for the 2009 National OSS Case Study Awards.

http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/194/128/

This OSS Case Study Awards are open to ALL Public Sector Agencies including Public Higher Education Institutions (IPTA) and Polytechnics.

Presentation of the Awards will be held in conjunction with MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference in May 31th to June 3rd 2009.

The Awards are classified into three (3) groups;

Group 1: Public Sector Agencies other than IPTA & Polytechnics;
Group 2: IPTA & Polytechnics; and
Group 3: IPTA & Polytechnics Students.

Submissions of the OSS Case Studies are encouraged for knowledge sharing purpose. Please do not resubmit the OSS Case Studies submitted in 2008.

http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/case-studies

The best OSS Case Studies will also be eligible for the Final National OSS Case Study Awards 2009 which will be held in conjunction with MyGOSSCON 2009 in November 2009.

The OSS Case Study Awards are for the following solution categories:

* Desktop
* Infrastructure
* Application

Submission Template
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A template for submission is provided. It is recommended that the main sections are kept as it is, however additional sub-sections can be added. Submission in Bahasa Malaysia are also accepted provided that they follow the same formats. English is encouraged, as these case
studies will also be used to showcase and share Malaysian OSS implementations to international audiences.

Submission Deadline
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The submission deadline is on 8thMay 2009.

NOTE:Finalists will be able to update their submissions for final national awards in November 2009.

Eligibility
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All Public Sector agencies, IPTA/Polytechnics and their students are eligible.

Submitting Submissions
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Please submit enquiries and the case studies, to casestudy@oscc.org.my before the deadline. If the case study files are too large to be sent by email, please provide a link.

Finalists & Winners
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Group 1 - 3 finalists will be selected and awarded for each solution category. 1 winner will be selected for each category from the finalists.

Group 2 - 3 finalists will be selected and awarded for all solution categories. 1 winner will be selected for all solution categories from the finalists.

Group 3 - 3 finalists will be selected and awarded for all solution categories. 1 winner will be selected for all solution categories from the finalists.

This will make a total of 15 finalists and 5 winners.

All OSS case study submissions will be compiled and uploaded to OSCC MAMPU's website. Selected case studies may also be compiled into a publication.

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More about MyGOSSCON
http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/

More about OSCC MAMPU
http://www.oscc.org.my/

More about MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009
http://www.mscoscon.my/

Open Source Software Talk UTeM 2009

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:13:00 +0000

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The Malaysian Government Interopersbility Framework For Open Source Software MyGIFOSS

View more presentations from Harisfazillah Jamel.

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The Malaysian Government Interopersbility Framework For Open Source Software MyGIFOSS - Presentation Transcript

1. The Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program MyGIFOSS Open Source Software Seminar Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) 21th March 2009

2. BASELINE Questions that you ask yourself before using OSS. How (How you are going to do it?) What (What you want to do?) Who (Who will doing it?) When (When to do it?) Where (Where to do it?)

3. GUIDELINE MAMPU has produced numbers of guidelines related to OSS. OSS Implementation Guidelines Malaysian Public Sector OSS Initiative Open Source Reference Architecture (OSSRA) Web Application Guideline (WAG) Pilot Projects

4. MyGIFOSS Contains information on OSS, open standards and technical specification for adoption in Malaysia Recommendations for interoperability in the usage of OSS in public sector Guide for government agencies in adoption of migration to OSS

5. DEFINITION Minimal set of standards and technical specification Governing the use of OSS and info access Adopts internationally recognized and ratified open standards MyGIFOSS covers Examples of OSS within solution area Recommendations for info and services access

6. OBJECTIVES To enable both proprietary and open source in government info system to communicate and inter- operate efficiently and effectively To promote and foster the OSS adoption within the government To promote vendor-neutral and technology-neutral implementation To reduce the total cost of ownership of government information system

7. BASIC OF RECOMMENDATION Interoperability Internationally recognized standards

8. SCOPE Covers the use of OSS and open standards Scope of the application. covered within the 6 solution areas Workload consolidation High performance computing Distributed enterprise Application solution Infrastructure solution Desktop solution

9. How To Use MyGIFOSS ? This document is structured in the following manner Discusses about open standards Selection and examples of OSS Recommendations on information access Discussion about set of standards and specifications that are compliant to specific domains.

10. Overview Open standard is a standard that publicly available and has various rights Open = royalty free technologies Standard = rules that are published by the major internationally recognized standards bodies such as ISO, IEEE, W3C Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

11. Open Standards and OSS Both are intimately connected Open Standards enable OSS to achieve interoperability with proprietary software Open Standards help to spread the usage and acceptance of OSS Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

12. Overview Selection of OSS to be used in ICT implementation Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

13. Guidelines / Standard Matrix Guidelines of OSS for use within identified implementation areas Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

14. Operating Systems LINUX BSD (“Berkeley Software Distribution) Family of OS Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

15. Desktop Applications Office Productivity Suites – Openoffice.org Web Browser – Mozilla Firefox, Konqueror Desktop Environment – KDE and GNOME

16. Server Applications Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) – Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim Database Server - MySQL, PostgresSQL Web Server – Apache, Lighttpd

17. Network Security Firewall – Iptables, IPFilter Network Intrusion Detection System - Snort Virtual Private Network – OpenVPN Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

18. Vertical Applications Content Management System (CMS) Joomla, Drupal Leaning Management System (LMS) Moodle Geographic Information System (GIS) GRASS Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

19. Products from OSCC MySpamGuard MyNetWatch MyWorkSpace MySurfGuard MySurveillance MyMeeting

20. Overview Components and Technical specs required to enable users to access public sector information and services via delivery channels (WWW) and devices (PC, Mobile Phones and PDA)

21. Recommended Standards / Specification Document (ODT)/ Spreadsheet (ODS) / Presentations (ODP) Graphical Image ( JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG) Compression (Zip, GNU Zip, Bzip) Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

22. Overview Supplements the recommendations of OSS for the public sector To be compliant with MyGIFOSS, OSS should be used on daily basis for ICT work , both at server and desktop Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

23. Minimum Requirements Operating environment OS – Linux , BSD Family OS Networking – TCP/IP Standards User Interface – Dekstop GUI and Server GUI File and Printer Sharing – NFS and CUPS Internet Services Websites and Web contents – Conform with W3C standards Web servers – Compliant with HTTP Email – IETF protocol (Internet Engineering Task Force)

24. R&D OSCC Proposal Share our problems with IPTA Smart partnership in RnD Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

25. MyWorkSpace Clean integration with LDAP and DBmail User Administraion GUI New LDAP schema for Dbmail and Horde intergration Secure connection using SMTPS http://myworkspace.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

26. MySpamGuard Senarai Putih E-mail Kerajaan (SPEK) SpamAssassin rules in Malay and SPEK scoring http://www.blue-quartz.com/rbl/ http://spamikaze.org/ http://myspamguard.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

27. MyNetWatch Integrating with Cacti Auto discovery and rebuild scripts Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

28. MyMeeting Calendar integration with MyWorkSpace Sign-on using OpenID http://mymeeting.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

29. MySurveillance Integration with MyNetWatch log monitoring and analysis http://mysurveillance.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

30. MySurfGuard Rules for Malay content websites Exception rules for government sites http://mysurfguard.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

31. MyGIFOSS is constructed to be a “live” document providing guidelines and recommendations for OSS adoption within public sector and can be used by others. Help us to improved OSCC Products Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

32. Harisfazillah Jamel linuxmalaysia@gmail.com http://blog.harisfazillah.info/ YM : linuxmalaysia Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit

OSS Startegic Thrust - Discussion Group

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:10:00 +0000

OSS Startegic Thrust - Discussion Group

Salam sejahtera & good morning,

We would like to share with you on the following development :-

1. Once again, we wish to extend our sincere appreciation to those participated in our Strategic Thrust (ST) workshops previously and we hope you be able to contribute further.

2. We have created a mailing list, st at lists.oscc.org.my incorporating ST Lead and Participating Agencies names. Please encourage the others to joint this ST community by subscribing to http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailman/listinfo/st and wait for email confirmation. Relevant information with regards to ST will be disseminated through this mailing list.

3. OSS ST Discussion Group (OSTDG) http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/forum/strategic-thrusts now available for all Strategic Thrusts participants, build using our Knowledge Bank http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/

4. The OSTDG http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/forum/strategic-thrusts is open to all ST agencies and anybody interested to participate.

5. In order to participate in this forum, please register to our Knowledge Bank at http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/join_form first, wait for confirmation, and then go to the OSTDG forum site at http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/forum/strategic-thrusts to start.

6. OSTDG http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/forum/strategic-thrusts objective is to enable the ST Lead and Participating agencies to virtually communicate and discuss respective ST action plans and activities. This would create an avenue for us to be better prepared for the next ST Workshop and other events.

7. OSCC is the moderator for the OSTDG http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/forum/strategic-thrusts and we will keep on contributing materials for discussion.

8. There are 4 ST discussion groups created as follows:

a. ST3 - Train and Develop Human Resources to Support OSS Implementation. Lead Agency is MOE. Participating Agencies are INTAN, IPTA, MLVK, MOHE and MOHR.

b. ST4 - Promote Creativity and Innovativeness via R&D to Harness Competitiveness. Lead Agency is MOHE & MOSTI. Participating Agencies are IPTA, MDeC and MIMOS.

c. ST6 - Provide Incentives to Prosper the Development of OSS Solutions. Lead Agencies is MAMPU. Participating agencies are MOSTI, EPU and JPA.

d. ST8 - Optimize Resources by Encouraging Smart Partnership with Relevant Organization. Lead Agency is MOSTI. Participating agencies are MOE, MOHE, IPTA, MDeC, MAVCAP, MIMOS.

9. Please contact us should you need further assistance or clarification, via email, phone or best via OSTDG http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/forum/strategic-thrusts

Thank you

Marzuki Mohammad

MAMPU OSCC

http://opensource.mampu.gov.my/
http://www.oscc.org.my/

More about OSS Startegic Thrust
http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/35/44/

Malaysian Agencies OSS Adoption Status with Charts and Tables

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Malaysian Agencies OSS Adoption Status with Charts and Tables

MAMPU currently collects and tracks OSS adoption statistics and trends for all agencies in Malaysia. This data is now made public for the benefit of all agencies and the general public. They are updated every two weeks.

http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/227/139/

MAMPU

http://www.mampu.gov.my/

Open Source MAMPU Malaysia

http://opensource.mampu.gov.my

Files

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12452612/OSCC-MAMPU-Adoption-Chart-as-at-130209

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12452607/OSCC-MAMPU-Latest-OSS-Adoption-as-at-13022009

OSCC MAMPU First Quarterly e-Newsletter Jan 2009

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:10:00 +0000

Newsletter Jan 2009 is Published on OSCC MAMPU Portal

OSCC's first Quarterly e-Newsletter kicks off with:

1) RM40million Savings From OSS Adoption
2) MyMeeting Wins “Innovation Awards For Public Service 2008”
3) MyGOSSCON 2008
4) Other Major Conferences
5) Potential OSS Adoption Trend

Download PDF (PDF File)
http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/newsletters/first-quarterly-e-newsletter-jan-2009/view

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10188848/OSCC-MAMPU-January-2009-Enewsletter

OSCC MAMPU January 2009 E-newsletter

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What if Public sector software systems were open source?

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:02:00 +0000

What if Public sector software systems were open source?

http://linuxuser32.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/what-if-public-sector-software-systems-were-open-source/

The building of and use of open source software systems in the public sector sounds promising. There are many interesting aspects to this topic.

The public sector includes local authorities, health boards, police forces, the fire service, primary and secondary education, etc. It can be argued that they share common processes which have supporting software systems, between regions for a common organisation, and to some extent between organisations. For example, human resources departments provides payroll services, a Hospital has numerous data-entry systems to support wards such as surgery and oncology, local authorities have systems to process council tax.

http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/practice-areas/government/what-if-public-sector-software-systems-were-open-source

The Open Source Software Reference Architecture (OSSRA)

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:06:00 +0000

The Open Source Software Reference Architecture (OSSRA) document by OSCC MAMPU is designed to assist and guide the System Administrator and Technical Support within government agencies in architecting and designing the ICT infrastructure in compliance with all current published ICT policies,guidelines and standards.

http://www.slideshare.net/linuxmalaysia/oss-reference-architecture-oscc-mampu-malaysia-2008/

OSS Reference Architecture OSCC MAMPU Malaysia 2008

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: mampu oscc)

ODF OLYMPIAD 2008 Malaysia

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:37:00 +0000

ODF OLYMPIAD 2008 Malaysia

ODF is an international standard for office productivity format, adopted by ISO.

ODF is fundamental to enabling computer education globally.

ODF is the National Standard of countries such as South Africa and Uruguay.

ODF is easy to learn and specifies the way documents, presentations and spreadsheets are stored in a computer by popular Office Productivity Softwares such as OpenOffice. Anyone who has used any presentation software can immediately start using ODF software such as openoffice.org

http://www.odfolympiad.org/malaysia

MyGOSSCON 2008 Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:02:00 +0000

MyGOSSCON 2008

Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference

5 - 6 November 2008, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Location : Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC), Putrajaya, Malaysia

The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON) is an event held to support the Phase II - Accelerated Adoption. In line with the Phase II targets, the theme for this year is Accelerated OSS Adoption For Innovative Public Service Delivery.

The Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) MAMPU http://www.oscc.org.my/ has successfully completed Phase I of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan Programme, which focussed on Laying the Foundation and Early Adoption stages. The programme is currently in Phase II - Accelerated Adoption stage, which targets to further accelerate OSS adoption in Public Sector.

MyGOSSCON 2008
http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/

Contact information

Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) MAMPU
3rd Floor, Apt E302 - E304
Lot 12076, Persiaran APEC
Enterprise Building 3
63000 Cyberjaya
Selangor, Malaysia

Telephone:
+603 83191200 (General Line)
+603 83191201 (Helpdesk Line)

Fax:
+603 83193206

Email:
contact [at23] oscc.org.my

OSCC MAMPU Online Form

An Interview with MyMeeting Senior Developer

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:01:00 +0000

An Interview with MyMeeting Senior Developer

Original link

http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/09/an-interview-wi.html

Posted by ditesh on Saturday, 27 September 2008 at 02:42 AM

MyMeeting ( http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/solution-areas/application/mymeeting ) (download http://trac.oscc.org.my/mymeeting/wiki/Download ) is a web application specifically designed to help better manage meetings in government agencies. Initially developed at the Open Source Competency Center http://www.oscc.org.my/ (OSCC), it is the first Malaysian government software to be released publicly under the open source BSD license.

We conducted an email interview with Abdullah Zainul Abidin ( http://blog.abdullahsolutions.com/ ), the senior developer on this project. The answers are below verbatim (with some minor formatting changes).

0) Tell us the story of how MyMeeting came about being developed. Who's brainchild was this? Who were the key developers? How many developers were allocated to work on MyMeeting? Was there management buy-in before development started? Was the development of MyMeeting conducted in OSS manner (ie open mailing lists, bug tracking software, public access to SVN/CVS/git etc)?

MyMeeting actually started life as a custom system for the management of decisions made in the GITIC committee. GITIC (Government Information Technology And Internet Committee) is a committee chaired by the Chief Secretary Of Malaysia that discusses the implementation of government IT policies and so it has members from every government agency in Malaysia.

Once the GITIC system was complete, MAMPU saw that MyMeeting could actually be useful to other government agencies too thus most of the customized for GITIC portion was taken and turned into settings which could easily be changed by the various agencies for their use. Then it wasn't really open source yet. We were using all the open source technologies (PHP, MySQL, Apache, SVN) but the development wasn't really open for all to see.

It was when we wanted to redo MyMeeting for MyMeeting version 2 that we saw MyMeeting is a perfect candidate for a completely Malaysian Government Open Source Software project. Most probably the first of it's kind. So yes, development of MyMeeting is conducted in OSS manner. You can access the bugtracker at http://trac.oscc.org.my/mymeeting , download it through svn at https://svn.oscc.org.my/mymeeting , register to it's mailing list at http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailman/listinfo/mymeeting-users and also edit it's wiki at the knowledge bank http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/solution-areas/application/mymeeting .

1) MyMeeting was developed on CakePHP ( http://cakephp.org/ ). What was the reasoning to choose CakePHP over other PHP frameworks? Did using an ROR-style framework help speed up development? Were there any problems faced when using CakePHP and how did the developers go about solving the problems?

The reason we choose CakePHP was exactly because it was an ROR-style ( http://www.rubyonrails.org/ ) framework. At the time when we decided to redo MyMeeting, there was a suggestion that we should use ROR especially after we saw Kamal's presentation on ROR ( http://www.slideshare.net/kamal.fariz/web-development-with-ruby-on-rails-mygosscon-2007 ) at MyGOSSCON ( http://mygosscon.oscc.org.my/ ).

But I was worried about the learning curve that we would have to face and also considering the limited amount of time we have it was just not realistic to expect all of the OSCC developers to grasp a completely new language (none of us have any kind of experience with Ruby) and a completely new approach to web application development. I mean doing programming with the MVC concept after so long of mixed PHP and HTML hackery it certainly is very different. But I knew that we would not be able to go far with "traditional" way of developing php software. We have to overcome MVC.

So we choose CakePHP because it was marketed as clone of ROR. The initial learning curve of a new approach was pretty steep but once that was all over we find that it did help speed up development as it keeps things clean. Everyone knew where things need to go and where to look if there are problems.

2) Is there any plans to officially support PostgreSQL (and other free databases) in future versions of MyMeeting? Also, why the support for MySQL only in this release?

There is no "official" plans to support PostgreSQL and actually cakephp does support other free and non-free databases. Only there are some queries which we had to hack in as they are too complex for CakePHP. And to be honest we haven't had much experience with other databases. So if someone really needs it, or even gave us the patch to support it (hint,hint ;) we'd be more than glad to implement it into the main tree of MyMeeting.

3) Has there been any patches fed back from the FOSS community? If members of the FOSS community are interested in contributing to this project, where should they go to information on getting involved?

We had one patch submitted by SuMarDi ( http://twitter.com/sumardi ) that actually changed the theme of MyMeeting. It was really good. But as of date (11/09/2008) we have not yet put it in because he also changed some tags in the views so we need to make sure we don't break anything if we put it in. Apart from that we've got some good feedback from angch ( http://twitter.com/angch ) and he even updated the wiki in Trac.

We welcome any contribution and involvement from the community regarding MyMeeting. If anyone is interested they should first register themselves at the OSCC Knowledgebank ( http://knowledge.oscc.org.my ) and from there they can read up on the latest MyMeeting documentation ( http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/solution-areas/application/mymeeting ).

They should download the source code and try out MyMeeting (the Knowledgebank would have information on how to do that). If they find some bugs or would like to suggest some feature they can do so at the mymeeting trac site ( http://trac.oscc.org.my/mymeeting ) by logging in with their Knowledgebank account.

They should also register with the mymeeting-users mailing list to keep up with the latest happenings with mymeeting at http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailman/listinfo/mymeeting-users . Apart from that, sometimes the mymeeting developers can be found in the #oscc irc channel on freenode. We'd be glad to help in any way we can so that the community can contribute.

4) Are there plans to integrate into existing legacy calendaring systems? Are there plans to integrate into FOSS calendaring software? How about integrating into existing proprietary calendaring software?

We have a vague plan of exporting the meeting calendars with iCal or something. But that is still a long way to go in the pipeline.

5) What is the roadmap for future releases of MyMeeting?

We haven't got a lot of feedback from the community yet as of where we should be heading. So most of it is only in the developers head of what next we should do. Yeah.. we're still very new at managing an open source project. It should be in trac.. :P

6) Why was the decision to keep MyMeeting development within OSCC before version 1.0 ?

That was actually the default way of doing things here at OSCC. We're actually trying to introduce something new with MyMeeting version 2 with it being completely open source and all.

7) Will future projects appear to the public prior to v1.0?

That would have to depend on the management.. :)

8) How is the team adapting to releasing the code?

We were pretty nervous at first. Not knowing whether our codes were any good and all. But we're okay now. Still got a long way to go to be fully disciplined in the open source way thought (release control and all) but insyaAllah we'll get there.

9) Management must be well educated to have the source code released. Was this an issue, and did you need advocacy sessions?

We are supposed to be the Open Source COMPETENCY Centre. :) So management should already know about the advantages of doing it in open source. We didn't need advocacy sessions.

10) How does your team / Management / OSCC / MAMPU rationalise the sharing of Intellectual Right of copyright and software patents?

We want Malaysia to be seen as a contributor of knowledge and technology to the global community.

11) How many seats has this been rolled out to (#Agencies / #Seats) and how much would this have cost for an equivalent commercial product?

There is at least around 6 agencies that is actively engaged with us to use MyMeeting. And since MyMeeting is freely downloadable there could be more out there that we don't even know of that's using it. Our current estimate is that it would cost at least RM 100K per agency to get something like MyMeeting commercially. So that's RM 600K at least already. :)

12) How much would your team foresee saving the Govt over the next 5 to 10 years from MyMeeting, and other OSCC products?

For MyMeeting? In 5 years maybe more than RM 15 million. If we can get all (and we mean ALL) of the government agencies and bodies to use MyMeeting. Not sure about the other products though.

13) Govt is cutting back on spending generally. Do you foresee that it will cut back on OSS investments?

Actually I think the right way to go is to put in more on OSS investments if they want to cut back. So I don't think they will.

14) Any new projects from OSCC labs we should look out for?

MySurveillance is rolling out soon. It is a HIDS system based on Prelude.

15) Can the private sector make use of the applications from OSCC?

Yes of course. But we won't be able to officially provide support though. We're more focused on government bodies.

16) Will OSCC provide support, or do they have recommended partners?

We would recommend partners wherever possible.

17) There have been cases where proprietary software vendors have opposed OSS initiatives by the government. Has there been any negative feedback from these vendors on the release of MyMeeting code, and if so, what has happened thus far?

No problems so far.

We would like to thank Abdullah Zainul Abidin for his time in answering the many questions. We are encouraged by the fact that the Malaysian goverment is moving so far as to open source its software projects. Indeed, the incredible interest from other government agencies clearly proves that the open sourcing of MyMeeting was a far-reaching wise investment. It has clearly allowed for efficient use of ICT resources by all, not to mention many millions of tax ringgits that are being saved through the choice of liberal OSS licensing. With their efforts leading to the promotion of OSS innovation and creativity, this initiative will surely lead to increased and sustained growth of the local ICT ecosystem.

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Accelerated Adoption for Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:10:00 +0000

Accelerated Adoption for Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program

Originated from cabinet decision of the Government of Malaysia, the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan was launched on 16 July 2004 to create and enhance value using OSS within the Public Sector ICT framework in providing efficient, secure and quality services. MAMPU was tasked to establish and operate the Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC), which is the single point of reference to guide, facilitate, coordinate and monitor implementation of OSS in the Public Sector.

OSS awareness has been a success in Phase I and the OSS Master Plan officially entered into Phase II - Accelerated Adoption on 12 June 2007 with full endeavor to accelerate OSS usage throughout the whole Public Sector nation wide.

A full eco-system to allow natural growth of demand and supply in OSS is targetted to be achieved in order to move forward to Phase III - Self Reliance in the near future.

Source : http://www.oscc.org.my/

Malaysia's schools get OpenOffice.org

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:37:00 +0000

Malaysia's schools get OpenOffice.org

By Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
27/08/2008

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62045435,00.htm

The Malaysian government has unveiled plans to roll out OpenOffice.org in schools across the nation--a move that will affect some 300,000 PCs.

Announced Wednesday by the chief minister of the state of Terengganu, the initiative will see all 467 schools in the Malaysian state using the open source office suite from January next year.

Some 100 schools in the state are already using OpenOffice.org, after the first phase of deployment began in January this year, according to a statement from the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU). MAMPU is a government agency that was set up to study the feasibility of implementing open source software in the public sector.

The decision was made based on case studies of other government agencies in the country, which have had successful implementations, Khairil Yusof, a MAMPU spokesperson, told ZDNet Asia in an e-mail interview.

Noting that increased security and knowledge-sharing were some of the positive findings of these case studies, Yusof said: "[The] open source deployments were not affected by viruses. The case studies also highlighted that staff were able to build their skills and knowledge due to the wealth of free information and tutorials associated with open source technologies available on the Internet."

The savings on licensing costs were an added draw for the government's decision to embark on open source deployments. MAMPU said: "Combined, [government agencies] have saved millions of ringgit for licensing fees [with the] expenditure now spent [elsewhere] to provide better public services."

Already an open source supporter
Yusof noted that open source software is not new to Malaysia's government agencies. Melaka, Kedah, Pahang and Sabah have adopted OpenOffice.org--with Melaka and Kedah at the forefront having done so since 2003, he said.

Overall, 281 agencies nationwide have adopted open source software, according to MAMPU.

"The migration at the agencies in which MAMPU has assisted, have had positive results," Yusof added, citing successful implementations at the Ministry of Human Resources and Meteorology Department as examples.

"The Ministry of Human Resources has migrated over 2,000 users with very few problem reports To date, over 10,000 seats in over 15 agencies have fully migrated [to open source software]," he said.

He noted that news of the move to OpenOffice.org has caught some by surprise, because of the lack of fanfare accompanying each deployment.

"Some have been [involved] since 2003 with little information shared [publicly]... [so, it seems as if] suddenly [people] are finding out that entire states are moving [to open source]," Yusof said.

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Malaysian Government launches new initiatives for increased Open Source and OpenOffice.org deployment in public sector and schools

http://blog.harisfazillah.info/2008/08/malaysian-government-launches-new.html

Malaysian Government launches new initiatives for increased Open Source and OpenOffice.org deployment in public sector and schools

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:28:00 +0000

Malaysian Government launches new initiatives for increased Open Source and OpenOffice.org deployment in public sector and schools

MAMPU Press Release

Malaysian Government launches new initiatives for increased Open Source and OpenOffice.org deployment in public sector and schools

Chief Minister of Terengganu launches state wide pilot of OpenOffice.org deployment in schools in conjuction with OSS Accelerated Adoption Seminars. Awards given for best case studies of successful government Open Source projects.

Kuala Terengganu, MALAYSIA. (May 27th 2008) -- Coinciding with the fourth regional OSS Accelerated Adoption Seminar this year, Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), the Ministry of Education and the State Government of Terengganu are launching initiatives for increased adoption of Open Source Software in government and schools.

The OSS Accelerated Adoption Seminars is a national initiative to promote increased awareness and adoption of OSS by government agencies. To encourage knowledge sharing of successful deployments, MAMPU has been providing awards to the best case studies that have been shared from each region. They are provided for categories of IT infrastructure, business applications and desktop applications. To date they have highlighted successful implementations such as the Meterology Department regional network, the desktop implementation for Melaka and statewide deployment of OpenOffice.org in Kedah. For the East Coast states over a dozen case studies have shown successful Open Source software implementations of e-government applications from Pahang and Terengganu.

OpenOffice.org in Schools Pilot lauched today by the Chief Minister of Terengganu supports the increased adoption of OSS and deployment for the upcoming generation of Malaysians. OpenOffie.org is an Open Source software alternative for office productivity software. The pilot phase in the state involves deployment to over 100 schools since January 2008.

From January 2009, all 467 schools will start using OpenOffice.org in the state. It is planned that this will be expanded nationally to over 300,000 PCs in schools. The savings in licensing costs, support for open standards and platform neutrality and increased security from threat of document viruses of this software will provide better delivery of education services by students and teachers.

Seminars highlight accelerated adoption of OSS in public sector

The proven success of Phase I of the governments' Open Source Master Plan has shown that the the adoption of OSS in the government sector in several pilot projects are cost effective and provide better service delivery.

Now in Phase II, the OSS Accelerated Adoption Seminars are an initiative of MAMPU to promote and highlight increased adoption of OSS throughout the public sector. This seminar with over 500 attendees, the final of the year for regional seminars is held in Kuala Terengganu for the states of Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu. To date over 281 agencies have already adopted OSS for the provision of IT services. This represents a ten-fold increase since original launch of the Master Plan in 2003.

Adoption of the open source office suite, OpenOffice.org for state government agencies is now official in the states of Melaka, Kedah, Pahang and Sabah. States like Melaka and Kedah have been deploying OpenOffice.org and OSS since 2003. Most recently Pahang State Government has issued a circular on the states intention for all state agencies to migrate to Openoffice.org. Combined they have saved millions in ringgit for licensing fees, expenditure now spent locally to provide better public services in their respective states.

In conjunction with the seminars, awards are given to recognise the best case studies of OSS implementations for each region. Highlights for the East Coast include Terengganu State Government Data Centre and e-Government projects all fully utilising open source software. The Terengganu State government has also setup a community training centre that has trained over 20,000 state citizens with IT skills using open source software on 585 Linux desktops.

In Pahang, an online information system for Vetrinary Services developed locally using OSS software has won national awards for innovation. A common finding for the case studies was increased security as OSS deployments of OpenOffice.org and Desktops were not affected by viruses.

The case studies also highlighted that staff were able to build their skills and knowledge due to the wealth of free information and tutorials associated with the OSS technologies available on the Internet. Furthermore with OSS, these initiatives can be deployed and developed and shared with other agencies without expensive licensing costs further providing avenues for cost savings, skills and knowledge sharing nationally within the public sector.

MOE launches pilot project of OpenOffice.org deployment in schools

The Ministry of Education with the support of MAMPU and the state government of Terengganu, also launched the pilot project for the deployment of OpenOffice.org in schools. The pilot starts with the deployment of OpenOffice.org in over 100 schools in the State of Terengganu. These include both urban and rural schools.

To date most school administrators and staff in the state have already been trained on the use of OpenOffice.org. Over the next 2 years, the Ministry of Education plans to build on this initiative and deploy OpenOffice.org in over 300,000 PCs in schools throughout the country.

The project is being implemented with the support of the Terenganu State Education Department with commitment and financial support from the State Government of Terengganu through the Implementation Committee chaired by B. En. Ahmad Razif bin Abdul Rahman the director for the Science, Technology and Human Resources Committee for the State of Terengganu. The implementaiton of this project hopes to achieve increased knowledge sharing and innovation for computer users with the optimum license and minimal cost.

About OSCC, MAMPU

Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit MAMPU's Open Source Competency Centre is first and single point of reference for support and guidance in the implementation of Open Source Software in the Public Sector. OSS Initiative is a cabinet decision. The Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit, (MAMPU) was directed to study the feasibility of implementing OSS in the Malaysian Government Agencies.

In response to the directive, MAMPU has prepared a Memorandum entitled "Proposal on OSS Implementation in the Public Sector of Malaysia". The proposal recommendations were tabled by MAMPU and endorsed by the Malaysian Government on 19 June 2002. OSS implementation in the Public Sector will be carried out concurrently with the building of necessary infrastructure such as technical support and human resource reskilling and development. However, changes will be introduced in stages to ensure that there is least disruption to the services offered by the Public Sector and that change is managed well.

About Ministry of Education

The Malaysian Ministry of Education objective is to develop a world-class quality education system which will realise the full potential of the individual and fulfill the aspiration of the Malaysian nation. It oversees all primary and high school education in Malaysia.

http://www.moe.gov.my/tayang.php?laman=utama&unit=utama&bhs=en

About Terengganu State Government

The Terengganu State Government is comprised of the Chief Minister and elected State Assembly which governs the state of Terengganu.

Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman ("Abode of Faith"). The coastal city of Kuala Terengganu which stands at the mouth of the broad Terengganu River is both the state and royal capital as well as the largest city in Terengganu.

About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org provides everything most people need in an office productivity suite. It is stable, reliable, and robust, built up over twenty years' development. It is actively developed, with several releases every year. The main components of the OpenOffice.org Suite are the Writer wordprocessor; the Calc spreadsheet; Impress for presentations; Draw for graphics; and the Base database.

OpenOffice.org uses the OpenDocument Format OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as supporting legacy file formats such as Microsoft Office, and is available on major computing platforms in over 80 languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial.

http://marketing.openoffice.org/press_kit.html

Additional Resources

Open Source Case Study Awards
http://www.oscc.org.my/content/view/194/128/

Open Source Case Studies on OSCC Knowledge Bank
http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/case-studies/malaysian-case-studies

Malaysian OpenOffice.org adoption wiki
http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/solution-areas/desktop/OpenOffice.org/openoffice-adoption

Media Contact

OSCC MAMPU
contact [21@] oscc . org . my
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Fax: 603 8319 3206

OSCC MAMPU Unofficial Archive Web Site

noreply@blogger.com (LinuxMalaysia) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:25:00 +0000

OSCC MAMPU unofficial Archive Web Site

OSCC MAMPU
http://www.oscc.org.my/

Knowledge Bank OSCC MAMPU
http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/