Re: [ossig] Technical workshops in MIMOS?

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>]

OpenEd title great idea, trouble is it may parse as 'opened' if people 
don't use
caps.

Corporate sponsorship - I'm against, doesn't save much money and it will
take us guys longer to arrange the sponsorship than the money it will 
bring in.
I prefer to keep it very simple.  If it becomes lots of organisation at 
this end,
we 'll end up having less workshops.

I would add another expert group or two:

7. Security (firewall, IDS, networking topics etc)
8. Email+internet infrastructure (DNS, sendmail, POP+IMAP,
antivirus, antispam, mailing lists)


Ken Wong already mentioned antispam to me.  That got me thinking that
a full antivirus+antispam day would be good - intro/theory, tools and 
techniques.
For that, I can explain Bayesian spam filtering and walk through the code in
Mozilla that implements it.  Maybe somebody from Jaring can cover blacklists
and how they work (I'm only partly joking) as well as antivirus, since 
Jaring
already has an antivirus option.

My only worry is if it becomes too good I'd personally like to be able 
to prepare slides in 3-4 hours
for a 45 min presentation as part of a 1/2 day session conducted by several
people.  , how do we limit numbers :) ?
Maybe also we should be careful not to over-engineer in case it puts 
potential
presenters off. 


Imran


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)
>
> 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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Imran William Smith
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