or at least the ones in the Kuala Lumpur, and Petaling Jaya area.
Come midnight 5th June 2008, Malaysians braced themselves for the worse. They prepared at least a bottle of water, perhaps even some snacks, and maybe brought a friend or family member along to keep them company. They were getting ready for the adventure of their lifetime. Their future uncertain, and we all know how much we fear uncertainty.
What was all this for? To line themselves up for perhaps an hour or more trying to save 20-50 MYR on gas.
Thus proving that they value their money more than their time.
Spammed on several places:
We have two presentations lined up for the night:
1. Gavin will provide a survey of different methods of handling missing references in various programming languages with emphasis on Scala. This stuff has been popping up a lot on Reddit. For a good backgrounder (in Ruby), see http://blog.thoughtfolder.com/2008-03-16-navigating-nil-method-chaining-in-ruby.html
2. Aizat will live build a Jabber bot that integrates with Twitter, provides system monitoring and makes coffee in the morning. Expect lots of BDD love with Autotest and RSpec.
Also, I have one last FREE PeepCode Episode Coupons to give away!
When: Thursday, March 27th 2008, 7:30PM
Agenda:
7:30 - 8:00pm Socializing
8:00 - 8:15pm Opening by the Organizer
8:15 - 8:45pm “Survey of different methods of handling missing Preferences” by Gavin Bong
8:45 - 9:15pm “Developing a Jabber bot … LIVE!” by Aizat Faiz
9:15 - 9:30pm PeepCode Episode Coupon Lucky Draw and Close
Cost:
Free. No registration required, just come right in, have a seat, and join the crowd. Invite your friends.
Contact:
kamal.fariz@gmail.com
+60123099143
aizat.faiz@gmail.com
+60176908783
Where:
Open University Malaysia Angkasa Raya
Floor Tingkat 3, Bangunan Angkasa Raya,
Jalan Ampang
Kuala Lumpur
Located near Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC)
15 minute walk from the KLCC LRT station.
Praying facilities are available on the campus.
From the FOSS-SM site.
Special guest speaker Kenneth Wong will talk about the challenges of running a FOSS company in China while juggling mission critical systems with over 1 million EUR daily transactions, 30+GB pgsql databases and 20+ debian servers. Second part of the meetup will be quick meeting to formalize registration of FOSS-SM with Registrar of Societies, Malaysia.
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Topic: Running a FOSS SME in China
Kenneth Wong
Director of Software Development
Exoweb
Kenneth Wong is the Director of Software Development at Exoweb. Exoweb is a software development company focusing on agile development and open source in China.
He will talk about the challenges of running a FOSS company in China while juggling mission critical systems with over 1 million EUR daily transactions, 30+GB pgsql databases and 20+ debian servers.
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Topic: FOSS-SM Registration
This meeting is to formalise the registration of FOSS-SM by electing interim committee members and for the community to provide live feedback on issues such as the constitution and direction of FOSS-SM to support our local FOSS community.
Can’t code or not a technical person? Would like to contribute in some way to FOSS?
Then we NEED YOU!
Yes you, no, don’t look away, I know you’re closing the browser, but stop right there and read on!
We need a secretary to help deal with the paper work to get us registered, as well as be the official voice for many of our aims and activities. We are also looking for somebody to be the treasurer to help handle increasing amounts of funds that this society will be receiving in the near future to better run our various activities.
No experience needed, what we need are people enthusiastic about FOSS and have some time each week to help run FOSS-SM.
If you’re interested please contact committee@foss.org.my
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When
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Wednesday, January 13th 7:30 PM
What - Meetup Agenda
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7:30pm - 7:45pm Opening by the Organizer
7:45pm - 8:30pm Running a FOSS SME in China - Kenneth Wong, Exoweb
8:30pm - 8:45pm Q&A
8:45pm - 9:30pm FOSS-SM Registration Process - Khairil
Cost:
Free. No registration required, just come right in, have a seat, and
join the crowd.
Contact
kaeru@inigo-tech.com
+60-16-3111330
Where:
OUM Angkasa Raya
Open University Malaysia
Floor\Tingkat 3, Bangunan Angkasa Raya,
Jalan Ampang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
TEL: 60-3-2148 8400
Located near Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC)
15 minute walk from the KLCC LRT station.
Praying facilities are available on the campus.
About MyOSS Meetups
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Interested in helping out the Free and Open Source Community in Malaysia?
Check out http://foss.org.my/projects/meetups/howto
If you would like to do a presentation, please contact me at the above email address.
Learn more about the MyOSS Meetups at
http://foss.org.my/projects/meetups/about .
This meetup is possible due to the support and facilities provided by Open University Malaysia.
