Re: [ossig] MyOSS Magazine - Call for Papers

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:26 +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 15:41 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > > Can the write-up in Malay? 
> 
> > I seriously do not know if this is OK. The target is not only for
> > M'sians but OSS Community and Converts in general. If doing the write-up
> > in BM, then the audience will be limited (I think to only
> > M'sian/Indonesian?).
> 
> Then we can take out the Malaysian from "Malaysian Online Open Source
> Magazine".

To me It was M'sia because it started here and supported by the local
community.

> I personally would like to see more BM articles, so that we can
> represent the entire .my FOSS community which also includes the mostly
> BM mypenguin99 and itutor communities.
> 
> Volunteers to translate (from BM to English and vice versa), I feel
> would only promote even more co-operation while reaching out to a larger
> Malaysian audience who are not comfortable in English.

If we can get people to collaborate and translate Malay into English and
have both in the same Magazine, it would be "having your cake and eating
it too" or in BM "ada kek sendiri dan boleh makan sendiri" (i think I
screw that up :-)

I have no problems with this at all. 

Localisation is good while at the same time reaching the wider audience.
What we need in M'sia is an integrated community as the current one is
fragmented.

/me thinks of that one movie that was under a corporation named "The
Umbrella Corp" which is really a cool name.



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