Re: [ossig] Technical workshops in MIMOS?

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>]

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Dinesh Nair wrote:

> 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)
I suggest one extra. How to intergrate diff desktop and server into one  
centralize depository via NIS or OpenLDAP. Some advance sys admin issue.


> 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 ?
>
> Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
> dinesh@alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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