My experience as an Open Source Architect
S. P. T. KrishnanChairman, donorweb.org
[kris@donorweb ~]$ who am i
RHCE of the year 2007, APAC
Red Hat Certified Engineer
President’s Social Service Award 2004, Nominee
Invited to Istana
Reception forPSSA nominees
@ Istana
My most trusted distro:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
My First Linux Distro: Red Hat Linux12 years with Linux
Principal Architect: donorweb.org
Researcher, Developer, Sysadmin… what is donorweb.org?
Born in Y2K, v1 In NUS, as student project
Won e-innovator award from Singapore Government
Adopted by Singapore Red Cross
Y2K + 1
Official Singapore Blood Stock Indicator
V2, Y2K + 2
SMS Gateway 91734293
V3, Y2K + 3
CMS (broadcast), Forums
V4, Y2K + { 4, 5 }
Oct 07Home page
1) R3CASEAN++ Blood banks
V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}
2) BMOSBloodmobile CRM
V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}
3) SMS5(bulk SMS, multi-user)
V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}
4) Stocks3(Live + History)
V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}
Oct 2007As at
Softwarestack
Hiring !!! …volunteersWeb CMS, new VM-based architecture
V6, next year
Costs savings(tax payers, please note )
1 2 3 40
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Cost (S¢)Capacity (MB)
1 2 3 40%
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Capacity (MB)Cost (S¢)
Cost (S$) Capacity
160 100MB50 600MB30 27GB15 1TB
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THEN THEY LAUGH AT YOU…
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Today…
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