MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is Open For Registration

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.

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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

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/

Archive

http://blog.harisfazillah.info/2009/04/oscc-mampu-is-calling-for-submission-of.html

Open Source Software Talk UTeM 2009

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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

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

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

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?

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