OSCC MAMPU Oct-Nov 2009 E-Newsletter

Bil. 8/2009 October - November 2009

MyGOSSCON 2009 – WOW!!!Putrajaya 9 November 2009. The recent Malaysian Government OSS Conference (MyGOSSCON) 2009 was described by most as a roaring success. MAMPU wowed the 805 participants with the most comprehensive and interactive events and activities yet in this third successive MyGOSSCON held on 4-6 November at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC), Putrajaya.

Y.B. Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department officiating MyGOSSCON 2009 on 5th November 2009

The full-fledged conference was officiated on 5 November by Y.B. Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. The conference featured 8 sessions covering 45 papers from a large repertoire of local and international speakers; 41 OSS showcase exhibition booths from public and private sector organisations; and several new activities such as the 24-hour OSS Web Development Contest, OpenOffice.org Competition, and Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) and Lightning Talks sessions.

MyGOSSCON 2009 was attended by high profile officials from private and public sectors, including MAMPU's Director General, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), PIKOM, Business Chambers and a delegation from Nile Center for Technology Research (NCTR), Sudan accompanied by His Excellency, Ambassador of Sudan in Malaysia.

The interactive conference successfully created an environment which saw participants exchanging knowledge and ideas, as well as sharing innovations in various exciting activities. The conference achieved unparalleled successes in capturing and embodying the inherent energy of OSS and its vibrant communities.

The keynote sessions were on Global Trends and Opportunities, Transforming for the New Economic Order, Shaping a Dynamic Public

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Inside● MyGOSSCON 2009 –

WOW!!!

● Competitive Spirit Abounds at Conference

● OSS Case Study Internationally Accredited

● Government Agencies Getting More With less

● World OSS News Updates

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Service through OSS and a closing keynote by the President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Mr. Michael Tiemann, whose work led to world-leading open source technologies and formed the first open source business model.

Concurrent sessions were separated into Government, Business and Technology tracks, drawing on key local and international speakers from Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Singapore, Sudan and USA, each of whom shared experiences in these sessions. Among the highlights included keynote talks on OSS being used for Presidential elections in Indonesia and the use of OSS for Geographical Information System (GIS) in town and country planning in Malaysia.

To-date there are a total of 546 agencies implementing OSS, which represents a 10-fold increase since the inception of the OSS Programme in 2004.

MyGOSSCON 2009 was officially closed by the Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, Y. Bhg. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan at the start of the Awards Dinner on the evening of 6 November. This concluding event was yet another phenomenal success, distinguished by high profile officials from private sector and Government, including MAMPU's Director General, MDeC, PIKOM, and Business Chambers who were present to participate in the closing and awards presentation ceremonies.

Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan giving a closing speech during Appreciation dinner on 6th November

2009

Also in attendance were executives from local and international organisations such as Novell, Red Hat, The MediaShoppe, Microsoft, McAfee, Abyres MSC, First Solution, Conatus, local and international speakers.

The awards ceremony kicked off with the presentation of Best Exhibitor Award going to Novell Corporation in recognition of its winning efforts for its OSS showcase exhibition booth.

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Upcoming TrainingDecember 7, 2009

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HighlightsOSSRA

Open Source Software Reference Architecture is available for download from OSCC Portal.

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The presentation of awards continued with the Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan presenting tokens of appreciation to the ICT organisations in recognition of their continuing support for the OSS Programme and making MyGOSSCON 2009 a resounding success. All finalists and winners of the OSS Case Study Awards and 24-HR OSS WebDev Contest were presented with awards and certificates acknowledging their innovative and effective OSS implementation and web development.

Competitive Spirit Abounds at ConferenceAll the competition events held in conjunction with MyGOSSCON 2009 achieved overwhelming success in bringing out the inherent energy of OSS.

The first ever 24-hour OSS Web Development Contest was officiated by MAMPU Deputy Director General, ICT, Y. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri at 11.00 a.m on 4 November and closed by Y.B. Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon.

Five teams selected as finalists to receive certificates were Bitfluent (OSS community), KRIMnet, Ready To Go (Jabatan Peguam Negara), SUK Terengganu and WALTS6 (Universiti Sains Malaysia).

Bitfluent won this event with WALTS6 and SUK Terengganu as 1st and 2nd

runners-up respectively. In addition, the NuLogic from UiTM was awarded the Best Student Team Award.

Y.B. Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon visiting a contest team before closing the 24-HR OSS WebDev Contest on 5th November 2009

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For the National OSS Case Study Awards, three finalists were selected from each of the two award categories - the Public Sector agency and IPTA (Public Institutions of Higher Learning).

The winner for category of Public Sector agency was Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Desa, Semenanjung Malaysia with case study entitled “Establishing Quantum GIS as the principal GIS for the Public Sector”. Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam and Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi were the two runners-up in this category.

For the category of IPTA, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI), Universiti Sains Malaysia emerged as winner with case study entitled “Open Source Integrated Library System (KOHA)”. The two runners-up for this category were Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Shah Alam.

OpenOffice.org competition was held for Putrajaya primary schools, with student teams challenged to prepare creative presentations on the theme, “1 Malaysia – People First, Performance Now”. The 3 finalists in this competition were:

➢ Sekolah Kebangsaan Putrajaya Presint 9(1) - 1st Place

➢ Sekolah Kebangsaan Putrajaya Presint 9(2) - 2nd Place

➢ Sekolah Kebangsaan Putrajaya Presint 14(1) - 3rd Place

The winning team presented to Y.B. Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon who then congratulated them on their achievements at OSCC MAMPU exhibition booth after the prize giving ceremony on 5 November.

Case Study Internationally AccreditedThe winner of the 2009 OSS Case Study Award for IPTA category, Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia (AMDI, USM) recently achieved another significant milestone when its OSS Case Study entitled “Open Source Integrated Library System (KOHA)” received accreditation from the Koha community in Taiwan.

The community requested permission from AMDI, USM to translate the OSS case study to traditional Chinese and post the case study at KOHA community related websites for users' reference.

The community envisions that the case study will encourage and help more institutes to build their own or adopt KOHA within their libraries. They further commended AMDI, USM for providing proof of the usefulness and low cost of maintaining the KOHA Integrated Library System.

Koha is an integrated library system (ILS) and was the first open source solution in this area. Koha was created in 1999 by Katipo Communications for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand.

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Upcoming Events

OSS Opportunity Workshops

Registration is now open for agencies not implementing any OSS. A series of 10 Workshops will be held monthly until December 09.

To register, please call 03-83191200 or email [email protected]

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AMDI, USM successfully customised the Open Source Integrated Library System to accommodate its specific needs. KOHA was commended for its low maintenance cost and ability to control operations such as making changes, system customization, data retrieval tests and system deployment.

Total cost savings of over RM 1.3 million can be realised based on a 5-year projected cost savings analysis conducted by AMDI, USM.

Government Agencies Getting More With Less MAMPU continues to proactively encourage and inspire more Public Sector agencies to implement OSS by presenting a paper on “Getting More with Less Through OSS” in the recent I.T Showcase Asia Conference at Berjaya Time Square on 6 - 7 October 2009.

Madam Tan giving her talk at I.T Showcase Asia on 7 October 2009

Citing the eight OSCC products developed using OSS, the Deputy Director, ICT Planning and Policy Division, MAMPU, Madam Tan King Ing stressed that Open Source Software (OSS) enables government agencies to do more with less.

“Malaysia does not want to buy a package and use only a few modules but we'd rather develop our own software for our own use and OSS enables us build the software once and use it on many platforms by all agencies without having to pay license fees,” said Madam Tan.

In an effort to further widen the use of OSS in Public Sector, Madam Tan highlighted some of the free services offered by OSCC MAMPU to Public Sector agencies such as OSCC products and services, comprehensive training courses, OSS Development Toolkit, Advanced Virtualisation Facility and OpenOffice.org Migration Pack.

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World OSS News Updates1. Linux saves networks from disastrous virus attack

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the computer networks of Australian power supplier, Integral Energy were recently attacked by a nasty virus, affecting all its facility's 1,000 computers, which had to be repaired.

Integral Energy quickly swapped the infected Windows boxes for machines running Linux to prevent the virus from taking over all the operator displays in the control room. Fortunately, their power grid control servers run on Solaris that eventually saved the day.

For full story, please visit:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/australian-power-grid-attacked-by-virus-linux-saves-the-day/

2. Linux endorsed as safe for Internet Banking

According to cybercrime experts from Australia, Linux or the Apple iPhone was endorsed as the safe systems to use for Internet Banking.

Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the NSW Computer Crime Investigation Unit gave evidence on the security feature provided by Linux at a public hearing in Sydney.

"If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a Linux boot up disk - such as Ubuntu or some of the other flavours. Puppylinux is a nice small distribution that boots up fairly quickly.

"It gives you an operating system which is perfectly clean and operates only in the memory of the computer and is a perfectly safe way of doing internet banking," van der Graaf was quoted as saying.


http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157767,nsw-police-dont-use-windows-for-internet-banking.aspx

3. French Government switches 130,000 PC's to Open Source

The French Government's public finance department will replace its IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office with Mozilla's Thunderbird email service, Lightning Calendar and open source groupware applications.

About 130,000 desktop PC's will be switched to Mozilla's email and calendar applications. An ever increasing number of government agencies from around the world are embracing OSS to reap the benefits of cost savings and better license agreements.

The city of Los Angeles has also decided to use Google Apps to save cost. About 30,000 city employees will use Gmail and have access to Google Docs. Full story is available at http://bit.ly/CFbUU

4. Whitehouse.gov Goes Drupal

According to The New York Times, the flagship website of the U.S Government, Whitehouse.gov has migrated from proprietary Content Management System (CMS) to Drupal, an Open Source CMS.

The U.S Government clearly realised the benefits of Open Source such as lower risks, avoiding vendor lock-in and lower costs. White House's adoption of Drupal matches U.S President Barack Obama's push for open and transparent government. Drupal adoption and awareness are growing rapidly within the U.S. government and will also grow across all governments world-wide.

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http://bit.ly/CFbUU

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157767,nsw-police-dont-use-windows-for-internet-banking.aspx

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/australian-power-grid-attacked-by-virus-linux-saves-the-day/



http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/drupal-moves-into-the-white-house/?scp=1&sq=white%20house%20drupal&st=cse

Editorial BoardY. Brs Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri (MAMPU Deputy Director General, ICT) - Advisor

Tn Haji Muhammad Rosli Bin Abd. Razak (MAMPU Director, ICT Policy and Planning Division) - Chief Editor

Madam Tan King Ing (MAMPU Deputy Director, ICT Policy and Planning Division) – Deputy Chief Editor

Managers & executives (OSCC MAMPU) - Contributors

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