[ossig] malaysian distros - embun

Sun May 6 00:01:43 MYT 2007

Apologies first, first I should not have said 'stealing' as you are free
to use the code.  'taking' would be more appropriate.

Second of all, what I said is actually a general statement and not
directed towards embun.  If you are curious there is another group that
rebrands Open Office, and sells it locally.  Do they contribute back to
OpenOffice, I have no freaking idea.  Forgot the name of the project.
But if Malaysia was to adopt ODF, wouldn't these people benefit most
from it?  Shoudln't these be the people who should help us out?

What I'm trying to say is that there are ALOT of pockets of FOSS users,
groups, and companies in Malaysia which need to work together for the
benefit of FOSS.  If not for the benefit of FOSS, then for the $$$.
Either way the company and the community wins.  The company gets the
$$$, the community (hopefuly) gets closer to its goal of having every
house wife and toaster using FOSS.  The community gets case studies
successful deployments, or something.

If you want, forget the community, but we need to know that
people/companies exist that cover/support different areas of FOSS
technologies.  We need this because we are shooting ourselves in the
foot.  How? People are demanding FOSS. But if we cannot redirect them to
competent people to do the job, then they may have to look at nonFOSS
technologies.

We lose a potential client/convert.

Does embun have a developers blog?  Add it to
http://planet.foss.org.my , lets hear what you guys do!

Stand up, be heard, and be counted.

Don't hide your head in the sand for whatever reason.

Regards,
Aizat

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 16:54 +0800, Patrick Cheong wrote:
> Ezwan, I'd check my facts before shooting from the hip. Contributions 
> come in all forms and sizes ... even raising the visibility of OSS is 
> contribution with due credit given. We do not need to publicise our 
> contributions back to the community ...

> To get Embun, go http://www.xanadu.com.my/embun
> 
> Forums are at http://embun.xanadu.com.my
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
> > Who is this embun people?
> >
> > Any URL? Why most of OSS people with big ambition try to hide their
> > head in the sand?
> >
> > On 5/4/07, Raja Iskandar Shah <ris.riscniaga at time.net.my> wrote:
> >   
> >>  after ketupat linux, we had the mimos gnu linux. and a few others in
> >> between and after that..
> >>
> >>  now we have embun. there's a free live cd in this months' maiden issue of
> >> malaysian technology guide - MTG.
> >>
> >>  embun is based on ubuntu (not sure which version and which repository).
> >> cool stuff on it are malay and chinese language pack. add tamil and we would
> >> really have a cool desktop os for sekolah kebangsaan. jawi and arabic
> >> language / font packs will be good to have - and can be used to promote to
> >> the various sekolah agama. heard that mimos aims to do some project for
> >> these schools. i would guess the total number of chinese, tamil and agama
> >> schools is almost equal to the number of sekolah kebangsaan. i know that moe
> >> will be very interested - no one has approached them yet with a total
> >> solution for their requirements (including syllabus, interoperability, etc)
> >>
> >>  other things that embun could have done was malaysian based themes. not
> >> necessarily malaysian flags, but tropical colors and screens will be welcome
> >> over the arid ubuntu default themes.
> >>
> >>  if it had been me, i would have bla.. bla.. bla.. but i did not go out and
> >> do it. so, best wishes to the embun people.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Nicholas Adrian Suppiah wrote:
> >>  Right, it is something that is stuck to being Malaysia's most popular
> >> distro. I am sure if you check some older forums and newsgroup you can
> >> find more stuff.
> >>
> >> Then again, this is not an item usually discussed over tea!
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ossig-bounces at mncc.com.my
> >> [mailto:ossig-bounces at mncc.com.my] On
> >> Behalf Of Dinesh Nair
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:52 PM
> >> To: ossig at mncc.com.my
> >> Subject: Re: [ossig] Invitation for all Malaysian Linux community
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2 May 2007 01:47:10 -0700, Azhar Ahmad wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>  Skudai. When i mention about ajaran sesat, and ten wives thingy, my
> >> lecturer laugh at me. The he ask, where you get that info? Me? silent!
> >>
> >>  that was the original founder of ketupat linux. if your lecturer doesn't
> >> know this, then he's quite obviously clueless on ketupat linux's
> >> origins.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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