Re: [ossig] Technical workshops in MIMOS?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Imran William Smith wrote:

> External presenters would be welcome, and we'd probably host in our
> auditorium which has a capacity of around 150.  Possibly 1/2 day events.
> Either free or low cost - just to cover use of the room + refreshments.
> Low key, no paid advertising, no souvenirs, just community-driven
> training / info.

why don't we get this organized as a series of workshops/lectures on
technical subjects, aimed at the administrator and developer community
locally ?

my suggestion is to create focus/expert groups on specific open source
technologies and then have those groups take turns presenting on it. for
starters (and this is only a suggestion, additions/modifications are
welcome), we could create the following focus/expert groups:

1. Linux (Kernel structures, Performance Tuning, Filesystem et al)
2. FreeBSD (Ports, CVS, Performance Tuning, Filesystem et al)
3. MySQL (Configuration, Replication, Redundancy, Performance Tuning)
4. PHP & Web App Development (incorporating Apache)
5. Java development (JBoss, Tomcat, JDK issues, IDEs)
6. Desktop Apps (KDE, Gnome, OO.o macros, conversions)

have each of the focus groups draw up syllabi for 2-3 workshops each, put
them together and you have an entire 6-month programme, with one workshop
per week. MIMOS could also approach other open source vendors (Novel, HP,
IBM) for sponsorship of workshops (tea+coffee, logistics et al). MIMOS
could also host (either on opensource.mimos.my or www.asiaosc.org) the
content of the workshops, thus having a resource of Malaysian generated
content contributed back to the open source community.

as technical chair of the mncc ossig, i can coordinate and try to form the
groups as well as leading the FreeBSD and/or MySQL groups. this will
complement the OSS101 series of awareness talks that nan phin is
coordinating with getronics and atsc. as a tongue in cheek reference to
TechEd, we can call our series OpenEd (pronounced Open Education or
Opened). :)

since imran's off on hols, we'll start discussion with MIMOS when he gets
back.

all i favour ?

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