OSCC
2008-05-21
Sharing Information on FOSS usage in Government
Working on projects at OSCC, provides access to a large amount of information regarding OSS adoption. Mechanisms are being put in place to get this information out in the open.
- http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/search?Subject%3Alist=OSCC
- http://knowledge.oscc.org.my/case-studies/malaysian-case-studies
Of note are the adoption charts and detailed breakdown of known implementations by all agencies federal and state.
2008-04-02
FOSS Centres
IOSN has always had two large mailings lists, one of which FOSS-PDI http://lists.iosn.net/mailman/listinfo/foss-pdi is a major list for international policy makers. So it's sad to see that none of of them wanted to take over maintenance of this list and just simply disable it. Planet IOSN is also dead.
People and organisations who are not passionate about FOSS should not work at a FOSS centre, or if they are an organisation should not use the name. The reason is that, they're not commercial organisations. If you're at OSCC, you're working for your people, your country. If you're at IOSN you're working to help developing countries.
It's a heavy responsibility, because there is a community that out there that is looking up to your centers for help, the work is endless and the rewards are not monetary.
2008-03-11
OSCC: Looking for FOSS researcher/community person
If you're a fresh grad or somebody with less than 3 years experience and interested in mostly none-technical work with FOSS give me a buzz.
What you would be working on is networking government agencies interested in FOSS, doing market research and trends related to FOSS in public sector and some interesting new community projects.
If you ever felt like wanting government to use more FOSS, this is about as good an opportunity as it gets.
You'll be working with me, so in addition to learning how to manage projects, you'll also get to work on the technical side on some projects too.
If your'e interested, email me your CV and expected salary to khairil@oscc.org.my and please, please.. don't send it in .doc. Plain text and odf preferred.
