I came across this blog which is a review of the recently concluded SunTech Days in Malaysia. What struck me were the recommendations for a future.
- Get local (foss) developers to talk. Though I would prefer FOSS
developers, just getting more local people to show case their stuff is
important to show that we, as Malaysians, are moving forward. We can
produce stuff. - Start/Emphasis/Help local (Open)Solaris/Java User Groups.
- Get students to talk, its can make a stronger point to the students attending.
- Its Free Software also damnit!
I am really glad that we had India Sun engineers present at Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad. Not only that, we had two speakers from the Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group who gave some captivating presentations. Can you believe that 100 folks signed up for Hyderabad OpenSolaris User Group after that? This is just the folks who remembered to sign the piece of paper we circulated for getting memberships. I understand that it is a lot easier to do the above in India since we have an Engineering Center here. The same would be difficult for Malaysia. Hey, may be, we can call Sun engineers from Singapore who can help bootstrap the local community in Malaysia.
