Cyber Merdeka Cyber Sovereignity By Azrul Hasni Madisa Lightning talk MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 3 June 2009. 5pm Bronx V http://www.mosc.my/ http://www.mscmalaysia.my/opensource http://www.osdc.my/

1. Cyber Merdeka
(azrulhasni@gmail.com)

2. Who are these people

4. What did they do

5. They struggle for our independance

6. AND STRUGGLE THEY
DID!!

7. Today …

8. Our independence is again under threat...

9. Our IT independence that is

10. Our government's data

11. … is stored in propreitary file format

12. … and in propeitary databases

13. … running on propeitary systems

14. … whose IP are owned by foreign
companies

15. Who love software patent like Britney loves
her poodle

16. Who can pull the plug on us at any time..
you know, like tomorrow

17. OR RIGHT NOW!

18. What are we?

19. Crazy!!@

20. We have to fight for our IT independance!!

21. By using Open Source

22. So that we are in control

23. The government says...

24. We have to be neutral

25. Neutral??

26. Neutral my stiking foot!!

27. We have to be BIAS

28. … towards our own interest

29. The Americans ...

30. … are always protecting their interest

31. Why don't we?

32. Open source not owned by anyone.

33. It's not ours

34. But...

35. It's the next best thing

36. We can modify it and change it …

37. … heck

38. … we can publish the code on TV, for all we
care

39. … and that is OK

40. ( As if Malaysian TV is not boring enough
already)

41. What platform

42. Doc. mgmt Workflow Whatever...
Scala,PHP,
Ruby, Phyton PHP, Ruby,
Phyton
JVM
Open source OS (Linux,Solaris, BSD ...)
Open source HW (OpenSPARC)

43. What can you do?

44. Blog

45. Twitt

46. Chat

47. Convince

48. ...people around you, especially if they are
not in IT

49. of the importance of IT sovereignity

50. Malaysians are nobody's PANSY!

51. I had a meeting with MDEC

52. 50.6% of MSC companies are struggling to
look for Java Programmers

53. … and yet our university grads only know
VB

54. … and VB 6 at that

55. Cyber Merdeka is not just a call

56. For hippies

57. Who hug trees

58. And burn bras

59. … if you do wear a bra

60. Of course

61. You can burn someone else's bra too

62. (Sorry I digress)

63. This call makes ...

64. BUSINESS SENSE!

65. So if our forefather give their lives for our
independance

66. We need to give our code

67. … and our sweat and our time and our
attention

68. … to Open Source

69. For our independance

70. MERDEKA!!
( Freedom )

71. Did I sound like William Walace from
Braveheart?
:)

72. Is Mel Gibson in the room?

73. TQ
(azrulhasni@gmail.com)
(ejn3.blogspot.com)

74. Do want schools to be named after you!

75. So fight for our Cyber
Merdeka!