24 December 2004
Applications are invited for CICC scholarships for OSS courses
supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan
for the Fiscal Period - May to 24 June 2005. For details see here. Closing date is 24 January
2005.
18 October 2004
Registration for the Richard Stallman talk (see below) is now closed
due to
overwhelming response! Please do not register anymore as no more
places are available (not even standing room).
8 October 2004
Public Talk on the Impact of the Free Software
Movement on the Public Sector and Education
by Richard M. Stallman on 20th Oct 2004 at KMDC, Plaza Sentral
UNDP-APDIP and MNCC, with the partnership of MAMPU and KMDC, will be
organizing a seminar by Richard M. Stallman on the Impact of the Free
Software Movement on the Public Sector and Education.
The Free Software movement highlights the issues regarding the
importance of free software for sustainable development and sovereignty.
For developing countries intending to develop a knowledge based economy
it is now crucial to assess the implications and impacts of
restrictions that are imposed by copyrights and patents and to examine
and assess the arguments introduced by the Free and Open Source
Software model.
Date : 20th October 2004
Time: 10:30am - 1pm
Venue: KDU Management Development Centre (KMDC)
Level 20, Tower 3A,
Plaza Sentral,
KL Sentral
Speaker: Richard M. Stallman
Admission: Free (limited seats
available)
About the Speaker
Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS; born March 16, 1953) is the founder of
the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software
Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He invented the
concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and
enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License)
for software.
He is a notable programmer whose major accomplishments include GNU
Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. Since the mid-1990s
Stallman has relinquished most of his software engineering duties in
order to focus on the advocacy of free software. His remaining
development time is devoted to GNU Emacs. He is currently supported by
various fellowships, maintaining a modest standard of living while
discharging his duties as an itinerant evangelist and "philosopher" of
free software.
-- from Wikipedia
Registration
Participants who are interested to attend should register via email by
sending an email to admin@mncc.po.my
with the Subject header "RMS Talk" or call Nonie at MNCC,
+603-7118 3040. [Pls call only after
Weds., 13 October.]
*Note an online email form is available by using the link below that
will put in "RMS Talk" as the subject, and you can use this instead to
register:
http://www.iosn.net/country/malaysia/events/rms-kl-2004/register
Please register early as only limited seats available.
For more information see:
http://www.iosn.net/country/malaysia/events/rms-kl-2004/
19 May 2004
MNCC-OSCC Evening Talk on 27 May 2004
at KMDC (Plaza Sentral)
Linux kernel development is proceeding at a pace faster than ever; the recently released 2.6 kernel version has a number of features which programmers should be aware of. Improvements from vendors like IBM and the broader community offer scalability and performance improvements on all scales from embedded devices through the desktop all the way to high-end servers.
Come and join the MNCC-Open Source Compatibility Center (OSCC) Evening Talk on Linux Kernel 2.6 Development Updates. Address your questions to the speaker, Mr. Rusty Russell from IBM Linux Technology Center.
This evening talk will be held at:About the Speaker
Rusty Russell is a Linux kernel hacker living in Australia, working for
IBM's Linux Technology Center whose mission is to "Make Linux Better"..
He's also a frequent and talented speaker at Linux gatherings. When
talking about Rusty in an earlier interview, Andrew Morton summarized,
"he's just a really sharp and witty guy - anyone who has attended one
of
his sessions at a conference will attest to that!"
Well known for his packet filtering efforts, having written both ipchains and netfilter/iptables, he has continued to make an impressive number of contributions to Linux kernel development. A large sampling of his current projects have been merged into the 2.6 kernel, including futexes, per-cpu counters, hot pluggable CPU support, and a complete rewrite of the in-kernel module loader. His team’s key focus area is Linux for the PowerPC processor.
RegistrationParticipants who are interested to attend should register via email
with
the subject title "E-Talk Linux Kernel Development" to Jessica at
start@kmdc.com.my with name,
position, company, company address, contact number or call 03-22738286.
Please register early as only limited seats available.
27 April 2004
MNCC-OSCC Evening Talk on 11th May 2004
at KMDC (Plaza Sentral)
Come and find out how you can take advantage of the latest in open technologies and how they can benefit you. Gain a greater understanding of what Eclipse is all about and how it forms the basis of an open computing model.
Come and join the MNCC-Open Source Compatibility Center (OSCC) Evening Talk on Software Tools for Linux Application Development. Address your questions to the panel speakers from IBM.
This evening talk will be held at:Ivan Kladnig is the AP Linux SW Sales Specialty Leader. Ivan Kladnig has managed sales of IBM's middleware products across the AsiaPacific region for 2 years. Based in Sydney, Australia, Ivan is involved on a daily basis with customers from all industries deploying Linux solutions. Ivan has over 15 years experience in the IT industry and 7 with IBM. His background includes application programming, systems programming, technical consulting and sales - mostly in the banking industry.
Registration
Participants who are interested to attend should register via
email with the subject title "E-Talk OSS Application Dev Tools" to
Jessica at start@kmdc.com.my
with name, position, company,
company address, contact number or call 03-22738286
Please register early as only limited seats available.
12 April 2004
MNCC OSS 101 Workshop on 19th and 20th April
at KMDC (Plaza Sentral)
KMDC will organize another session of MNCC OSS101 on the 19th
and 20th April at Plaza Sentral.
Interested participants can email to kllim@kmdc.com.my
with Subject Title: "OSS101 Seminar at KMDC April 2004". For further
information, please call KMDC (Kathy), telephone
number: 603-22738286
*KDU Management Development Centre (KMDC) is the
authorized training
partner for Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) OSS101
Appreciation Workshop.
11 April 2004
USAINS-CRRC Open Source Seminar and Workshop at
USM on 20-21 April 2004
USAINS Holding Sdn Bhd, the commercial arm of Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM),
together with Collaborative Research and Resource Centre (CRRC),
a Penang State Government initiative, are jointly organizing this event
to
heighten the awareness of Open Source Software (OSS) in the Northern
region.
The 2-day event is supported by the Malaysian National Computer
Confederation (MNCC).
Other supporting organizations are: School of Computer Science, USM;
Centre for Knowledge, Communication and Technology, USM; and
Multimedia Prospect Sdn Bhd (MPSB).
IBM and SUN are the major sponsors for this event.
Programme details are available here and
here is a brochure for the
event.
For enquiries and more information, please send email to Anna Lau (annalau@cs.usm.my)
15 March 2004
MNCC OSS101 Train The Trainer (TTT) Program
MNCC is offering a Train The Trainer (TTT) Programme for participants to become trainers for the MNCC OSS101 Workshop. The programme is offered to training centers, institutions or individuals who are interested to conduct the MNCC OSS101 Workshop . See here for more details.
5 March 2004 (updated 11 March 2004)
Open Source and the Healthcare Industry
Open-source software is growing in importance in the healthcare
industry. In line with this, the MNCC-OSSIG together with the Primary
Care Doctors Organisation (PCDOM),
Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA) and the Institute of
Health Management (IHM), MOH Malaysia
will be organising an evening talk on 18 March 2004 on:
"The Roles of Open Source in Healthcare:
Implications to IT and Healthcare Practitioners"
Speaker: Dr HM Goh
Panelists: Lee Nan Phin (Chair), Nah Soo Hoe, Dinesh Nair, Dr Mohd
Azrin Zubir
Coordinator: Dr Molly Cheah, WG Open Source in Health
Date: 18 March 2004
Time: 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Venue: Institute of Health Manangement (IHM), Kuala Lumpur.
(Click here for map to IHM.)
Admission: Free (registration is required.)
To register, please send and email to admin@mncc.po.my
with Subject "Medical Informatics" or call Nonie at MNCC
+603-7118 3040
More details may also be found at:
http://www.ehealth.org.my/article_a.asp?id=63
15 January 2004
Evening Talk in Penang on Open Source
An evening talk to promote open-source software awareness will be
held by members of the MNCC-OSSIG OSS101 team at KDU Management Development Centre (KMDC),
Penang on 4 February 2004.
Date: 4 February 2004
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30 pm
Venue: KMDC, 11th Floor, Wisma TNB, No. 30, Jalan Anson, 10400
Penang
Admission: Free
Programme
6.30 - 8.00: "Overview of Free and Open Source Software" by Nah
Soo Hoe
8.00 - 9.30: "OSS Daily" by William Wong
Those who are interested to attend please contact Lena Koay
(cnkoay@kmdc.com.my) or Chan Hooi Hoon (hhchan@kmdc.com.my) or Thomas
Kok (ytkok@kmdc.com.my) or call up KMDC, Penang at 04- 2287098.
14 January 2004
OSS101 Workshop in UNIMAS on 11-12 February 2004
The first MNCC-OSSIG OSS101 for 2004 will be conducted in UNIMAS, Sarawak on 11-12 February 2004. If you are interested to attend, please contact MNCC by sending email to admin@mncc.po.my with the subject title "OSS101 Sarawak". Please provide your name, job, company and contact number. The workshop fee is RM 100. See here for more information.
30 December 2003
Evening Talk on OpenOffice.org on 8 January 2004
MNCC-OSSIG will kick off 2004 by organising its first evening talk for the new year on 8 January, entitled: "OpenOffice.org - Is it an Alternative to Microsoft?" The is a presentation to address issues like why OOo, the OOo movement, licensing, the MS Office compatibility aspects of OOo, the additional features (like one-click PDF export, export to Macromedia Flash, etc...), accessibility, internationalisation, and some of the projects we've run or participated in, e.g. how a local company, atSC, is providing CDs that come from the UK to schools here.
The talk is targetted at:
Those who are interested to attend please contact Ng Chin Hooi
(chng@kmdc.com.my) or Kathy Lim (kllim@kmdc.com.my) or call
up KMDC at 03- 22738286.
Reservation is on a first come first serve basis.
