Re: [ossig] Election Release

["Raja Iskandar Shah" <ris.riscniaga@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

so can we vote now ?

mari lah mari, kita mengundi....


Raja Iskandar Shah
http://riscniaga.netfirms.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:09 pm
Subject: [ossig] Election Release

> Dear all, 
> 
> 
> 
> A copy of this release can be found at
> 
> http://mossia.projects.inigo-tech.com/news-general/election-release
> 
> Introduction
> 
>        Some of us (hopefully that includes you), are trying to 
> set up a 
> for-profit, 
> open source organisation with the main purpose of promoting open 
> source, 
> pooling of resource among small open source companies. 
> 
>        This started out as a discussion on the ossig mailing list 
> related to 
> forming 
> an industrial association for open source companies. During a 
> subsequent, 
> physical meeting among 17 members of the communities, it was 
> concluded that 
> the best way to proceed with this is to set up a Sdn. Bhd. type 
> organisation. 
> Provisionally, this organisation is referred to as MOSIG.  Detail 
> of the 
> discussion can be found on the ossig mailing list archive and 
> http://mossia.projects.inigo-tech.com/meetings/initial
> 
> 
>        One of the problem with the original idea was, there were 
> no ( or lack 
> of) 
> organised effort to set up this company and important aspect such 
> as business 
> model, share holder issues. A shareholder agreement was drafted 
> but no 
> decision had been made on what to do with this particular 
> agreement.  
> Therefore, we have decided to setup a pro-term committee to 
> oversee the 
> formation of this new company.  The pro-term committee will be 
> replaced when 
> the company is form and list of member is finalised. 
> 
>        Anyone who is interested in this idea is welcome to join 
> the initial 
> effort, 
> participation alone does not mean an obligation to join at the 
> later stage. 
> 
> Howto participate 
> You may join the MOSIG mailing list at 
> http://lists.inigo-tech.com/mailman/listinfo/mosig
> 
> At the moment the following individual are being nominated for the 
> following 
> positions : 
> 
> President: 
> Dinesh Nair , 
> Yusseri Yusoff, 
> Raja Iskandar
> 
> Vice-president: 
> Yusseri Yusoff,
> Dinesh Nair
> 
> Secretary: 
> Khairil, 
> Jason Tan
> 
> Treasurer: 
> Jason Tan, 
> Raja Iskandar
> 
> Committee: 
> Tan Tze Meng (elected without contest)
> 
> Dosier of candidates ( in no particular order)
> 
> Note : Dosier was prepared by candidate themselves.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
> Jason Tan Boon Teck
> 
> Here's a little write-up before the cold medicine takes effect: 
> 
> I started my articleship with KPMG (it was called KPMG Peat Marwick
> then) straight out of form six on my birthday in 1999. Left the sweat
> shop in 1995 to join TPDA S/B as a Finance (& IT) Manager to get the
> company listed on the KLSE. Unfortunately, the economy took a nose 
> divein August 1997 when we were 95% of the way there.
> 
> Hopped over to Kenn Kenn Auto Accessories & Services S/B (a subsidiary
> of Foremost Holdings) as the Finance & Admin (& IT) Manager, to finish
> up that last 5%. After getting Foremost listed, life became 
> mundane and
> meaningless there, although I was also the Quality Manager doing 
> the ISO
> 9002 implementation.
> 
> Came out with some colleagues to do some financial consulting 
> under VC
> Associates S/B. Did a merger & acquisition for a client producing golf
> buggies in 2001. We saw good potential in that business and 
> decided to
> venture into that business forming Champino S/B in the process, which
> eventually took up 100% of our time. Champino now markets buggies as
> well as design and build tram cars. My role there has evolved into 
> "oneleg kick all" (chinese proverb) except for the assembly work 
> itself. 
> 
> I've been trying to move away from accounting to IT but circumstances
> seems to pull me back every time I move too far in that direction.
> 
> My exposure to Linux was back in the early 90's when you've to 
> feed 50
> floppies to install the OS. I went in and out of Red Hat boxes 
> over the
> years depending on the demands on my time by projects I was doing. For
> FOSS, I'm more a user than a programmer since my programming 
> skills are
> not that canggih (powerful).
> 
> I've to confess that I'm not a full FOSS user as I need to use AutoCAD
> (3-D designs) and the occasional non-epileptic inducing games. I'll
> also leave the Windows OS if I can get my Lexmark Z33 printers to work
> properly in Linux.
> 
> I see the future and opportunities for FOSS is inevitable and one 
> may as
> well embrace it since "resistance is futile".
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------
> Dinesh Nair
> 
> ok here's mine, and bear in mind that as i'm writing this i have 
> not slept 
> for 52 hours (and counting).
> 
> back in 1983 when i was a wee kid of 13, the folks asked me what i 
> wanted 
> to do and i said, "play computer". so the folks bought me a 
> commodore vic 
> 20. that soon gave way to an amiga, then a sinclair zx spectrum 
> and in 
> 1985, a spanking new apple ][+ clone. i was using the boxen for 
> games (what 
> else !!) and a little bit of coding in basic, pascal and Z80 and 
> 6502 
> assembler. at the same time, i was moonlighting on the side 
> writing game 
> reviews for battlezone (in.tech's grandfather) and as one of Uncle 
> Ho's 
> early minions, breaking copy protection on apple ][ games as fast 
> as they 
> came in. my partner in crime in that venture is today microsoft's 
> head 
> developer evangelist for asia-pac. ironic how things turn out, eh ?
> 
> at about the same time, this hippie-infested university released 
> an 
> operating system derived from Unix called BSD Unix, and some folk 
> were 
> porting that to the apple's 6502 processor, a project called A/UX 
> (or apple 
> unix). it's also about this time that a new networking protocol 
> called 
> internet protocol started to make it's rounds, and i took on the 
> task of 
> porting the BSD IP stack to A/UX.
> 
> most software ('cept games) then was open source, for these were 
> before the 
> clone wars and the emergence of the evil empire. my long hours of 
> 300 baud 
> connect time to the US based servers was sort of sponsored by the 
> incumbent 
> telecommunications company, though they didnt know that they were 
> providing 
> me nice international trunks to play with. someone should have 
> told them 
> that their switches ran unix and curious kids with time to spare 
> can 
> discover interesting things.
> 
> wasn't too long before i scooted off to USM in penang for my 
> undergraduate 
> degree, where i got to play computer some more, this time big ass 
> encore 
> multimax boxen (with nice blinkenlighten) and later on, a whole 
> sun sparc 
> 630MP which was mine, all mine as well as sole control of the 
> blazingly 
> fast 9.6kbps SL/IP internet connection which served all of USM. 
> (insert 
> maniacal laugh here). cs.usm.my was thus born (and exists till today).
> 
> 4 years in USM were a haze of parties, deejay gigs and basically 
> goofing 
> around. it was during this time that the clone wars were taking 
> place, with 
> the likes of compaq and hp taking on big blue for dominance of a 
> new 
> market, the personal computer. somewhere in between the clash of 
> the 
> titans, the seeds of an evil empire were being sown in redmond, 
> and by the 
> time i was in my final year in USM, their dominance was 
> established. 90% of 
> my batch mates used MSDOS for their final year thesis research. i 
> was the 
> only unix head, with the rest opting for MacOS. i missed the 
> clones wars 
> and the PC revolution, leaving USM with unix knowledge but 
> absolutely no 
> experience on the platform which was sweeping the world, MSDOS/x86 
> and 
> later windows/x86.
> 
> first paid job as a graduate was with bass consulting, who were a 
> software 
> dev/sys integrator in the stock broking and insurance industries. 
> i was the 
>  resident unix head for the lots of sun spacs, hp pa-risc and the 
> occasional sgi indigos we sold. did lots of systems programming, 
> including 
> a kernel firewall for sunos 4.2, the percusor to sunos 5.0 and 
> solaris. 
> that firewall was serving bass consulting from 1993 till 1996. it 
> was here 
> that i connected bass into the first dot com in the country, first 
> bass.my 
> then later bass.com.my. (dinesh@bass.my is still listed on some 
> internet 
> white pages).
> 
> i exitted bass consulting stage left in 1995 to start my own 
> consultancy/research unit with a bunch of other unix, 
> telecommunications 
> and internet heads. we consulted for a couple of local cellular 
> providers 
> (ok, maxis and celcom. no one else existed then) and at the same 
> time did 
> contract research into data and computer networking, specifically 
> tcp/ip 
> and distributed processing mechanisms. by this time, freebsd was 
> already 
> our OS of choice for it's BSD roots and tcp stack. in 1996, a 
> little known 
> browser company bought our technology out, just after sy thian and 
> i won 
> RM50K for teaching an arrogant ceo a lesson.
> 
> since i could not stomach becoming an employee again, i teamed up 
> with 
> another chap to work on a fledgling national project, the smart 
> card based 
> national passport. we worked together with the same chaps who 
> built the 
> mondex payment system in the UK and wrote the crypto components 
> for the 
> smart card operating system. at the same time, one doctor from 
> kedah 
> announced this koridor raya multimedia thing with it's flagship 
> applications and together with iris technologies, we bid for and 
> won the 
> national smart id card flagship, today called MyKad. finished both 
> the 
> projects and moved back into unemployment when we were bought out.
> 
> goofed around for a few months before teaming up with a couple of 
> other 
> folk to bid for the msc teleconsultation flagship project in 1998. 
> we got 
> that one, and spent the next 5 years architecting, building and 
> then 
> operating the 42 node nationwide network for the ministry of health.
> 
> five years was enough for me and i divested my interests in 
> worldcare to 
> work on an open source driven national software development 
> investment 
> programme with a venture capitalist where i discovered that no 
> matter how 
> noble the idea and the plan, politics and dirty deeds will always 
> win the 
> day. dead agungs can cause people to put aside larger interests 
> for their own.
> 
> today, with my old friend and partner, we've started two 
> skunkworks to 
> build some funky stuff using embedded platforms and operating 
> systems 
> (picobsd based, natch), network routing and security technologies 
> and 
> telecomms switching matrices. FCS is in a couple of months, so 
> we've got to 
> remain in stealth till then. it's also the reason why i've not 
> slept for 52 
> hours.
> 
> why do i want mosig to happen ? because it's time that open source 
> delivers 
> on the promise we've been hyping all this while. the only way this 
> can 
> happen is for it to bridge the chasm from being a hobbyist's 
> plaything into 
> a stack of technologies which enterprises can bet their bottom 
> dollars on. 
> for this to work, we need strong delivery capability in open 
> source 
> technologies, not just engineering and integration, but software 
> development and business smarts as well. we must go beyond piddly 
> application programming and start working closer to the metal, 
> lest we be 
> left behind and end up making sneakers.
> 
> 'nuff said.
> 
> now, i need to go and catch 7,385 winks for i turn 35 in exactly 5 
> hours.-------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------
> 
> Yusseri Yusoff
> 
> 
> Right, first off, I talk and write too much.
> 
> I have a BEng. in Electronics Engineering (Computing) from Uni of 
> Sheffield, 
> an MSc. in Telecommunications and Information Systems from Uni of 
> Essex and 
> PhD from the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences from Uni 
> of Surrey 
> for digital video stuff. Initially planning to spend my whole life 
> as an 
> academic, I sort of fell into working when I decided to take a 
> break after 
> all those years of study and applied for a system engineer job in 
> KL. Somehow 
> or other, I never got round to going back to university, though I 
> still plan 
> on doing so someday.
> 
> My first ever job (not counting the 7-11 one after SPM) was as the 
> R&D Manager 
> at Open Source Systems S|B -- that was where I applied to just be 
> a sys 
> engineer, actually. This was from Aug. 2000 to Jan 2002. Part of 
> the job 
> scope there was to dick around with clusters (beowulf, LVS, HA, 
> etc.), 
> virtual reality (my imaging bg was good here), and other bits and 
> pieces. 
> 
> I then joined DRB-HICOM Information Technologies S|B as a product 
> engineer in 
> Feb 2002 (at this point I was still valiantly trying to avoid any 
> sort of 
> mgmt job). Was elevated to my level of incompetence as the CTO in 
> Aug 2002, 
> or thereabouts. Became a director of the company in late 2002 or 
> early 2003. 
> Part of the team that did the Komnas 2020 PCs, I was also involved 
> in 
> formulating the proposal to the government in executing a public 
> sector OSS 
> initiative. Also dicked around on other stuff. Some of which 
> involved sushi.
> 
> Left DHIT in May 2003 and joined Advance Synergy Bhd. as the Asst. 
> GM, ICT 
> where I am also CEO of one sub, Deputy CEO of another, Director of 
> a number 
> more. In other words, all hell broke loose when I got to ASB. 
> There are good 
> reasons for that happening, which I would rather not get into here.
> 
> Since I was part of the original team from DHIT that worked on the 
> proposal to 
> the govt. on their OSS initiative, I stayed on as Project Director 
> of that 
> thingy until today, too.
> 
> Started using Linux (slack) in 1994, when a friend recommended it 
> in 
> Sheffield. A Malaysian, my friend has remained there until today 
> (probably 
> likes the bitter too much). Full, daily usage of Linux started in 
> the summer 
> of 1995, because it was a lot easier to read USENET at home 
> (alt...binaries....) than at school. Also had C programming work 
> that was 
> easier to do on Linux box instead of using Turbo C on DOS, since 
> using Sun at 
> uni. Did FreeBSD in '98, I think, and gave up when I realised that 
> I didn't 
> have my department's dev libs (http://ravl.sourceforge.net/) on it 
> and it was 
> too much work porting it over.
> 
> Wrote most code on Linux box for MSc and PhD, mainly on C and C++ 
> with a bit 
> of csh, tcl, tk and perl thrown in. Was taught finger gymnastics 
> on Emacs by 
> lecturer in Essex (alien@essex.ac.uk). Still believe that it's the 
> best 
> everything-but-the-kitchen sink around.
> 
> Never cared much for Free/OSS until '96 when a student from 
> Singapore started 
> rubbishing Linux, GNU and anything else "free" because, well, it 
> was free. In 
> other words, the idiot basically said that nothing free can be any 
> good and 
> MS was where it's at. Took it as a personal affront since I was 
> writing 
> f**king good code, using "free" stuff. Was writing a lot of image 
> conversion 
> stuff at that point. Though I never released them, what with 
> imagemagick, 
> gimp and the above RAVL (some of my algos are in there, I think. 
> Never 
> bothered to check).
> 
> This is taking too long so I'll end there. Can't be bothered to 
> expand on the 
> corporate stuff.  Am currently in severe pain since I had my 
> wisdom (yeah, 
> right) tooth pulled out.
> 
> DISCLAIMER: When writing description of self, it is always 
> selective history.
> 
> Finally, if you love this group, vote the other guy!
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> yusseri
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------
> Tan Tze-Meng
> 
> Ok here's mine
> 
> Where shall I start? :)
> 
> Studied at St John's Primary and Institution up to 1979, then went 
> to 
> the UK to continue my studies at Wellington School, Somerset, England.
> Graduated BSc(Eng) Computer Engineering from Queen Mary College, 
> University of London in 1986 and returned home to work.
> Worked at Computer Protocol and Industronics (pre Berhad) and 
> joined 
> Telekom Malaysia IT Division in 1988. Transferred to fledgling ISP 
> in 
> 1995 which is TMnet today. While at TM I managed the external 
> network 
> (the transit and peering links). In 1996 I was introduced to 
> FreeBSD by 
> my current partner in OpenSOS, Mike Choo. Left TM in mid 2000 to 
> start 
> a consulting company, IDCconsult Sdn Bhd which eventually became a 
> Patimas subsidiary, SED Technology Sdn Bhd, an Enterprise 
> distributor 
> for Sun Microsystems. While at IDC/SED was involved in a number of 
> projects including MyLoca, Maybank2U (Singapore) and PBB Internet 
> banking. Left SED at end 2002 to operate OpenSOS Sdn Bhd full time 
> after securing a contract with Apple South Asia for PS and consulting.
> 
> OpenSOS is a professional services, hosting services and 
> consulting 
> company (2 partners, 1 engineer) focussing on Open Source Internet 
> infrastructure solutions (email, web, DNS, directory, etc etc) and 
> we 
> specialise in FreeBSD, Mac OS X solutions but can handle anything 
> that 
> looks like Unix :) For consulting we handle IT practice and 
> procedures, 
> security, network, performance assessment and capacity planning.
> 
> Haven't done any serious programming since leaving Industronics in 
> 1988 
> - an MSDOS/Turbo Pascal based physical security device 
> monitoring/reporting software for Bank Negara.
> 
> Thats my working life in a nutshell :)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> Raja Iskandar
> 
> Raja Iskandar is the founding member of RISC Niaga Enterprise (a small
> office firm) and manages the overall business of the firm besides his
> expertise on business information systems. He has over 12 years
> experience in the study, design, development, sales, implementation,
> support, and review of business information systems for large
> corporations as well as small 锟� medium sized enterprises. He 
> graduatedwith a BSc (Hons) Economics & Accounting from the 
> University of Bristol,
> United Kingdom, and was previously employed in Arthur Andersen & 
> Co and
> HICOM Holdings Berhad.
> 
> why am i 'not' declining nominations:
> 1. someone has to do it
> 2. this is just for a pro-term committee
> 3. i want oss to make money in a 'socialistic' manner
> 4. i have had some experience with business models
> 5. let's get it on and move on
> 
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