[ubuntu-my] Balasan: Agenda

[Zulfa Juniadi b Zulkifli]

> How would you propose this be done? Set a date say 3 months from now,
plan an event, and go for gold?
I was thinking along that line. Make it official, create a media buzz,
get sponsorships, etc. Invite state officials and ministers (Maybe the
PM too?), CEOs and head decision makers, because these are the people
that really can make a difference. Of course, we'll need the cooperation
from other Malaysian oss communities. If we can get some people from
Canonical ltd to come down to Malaysia, it would be great.

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:48 +0800, Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:18 +0800, Zulfa Juniadi b Zulkifli wrote:
> > Dear Malaysian Ubuntu enthusiast,
> > 
> > Maybe something like an Open Source Awareness day or something like that
> > to create awareness among the Malaysian community. Most Malaysians I've
> > met still doesn't really understand "free" as in "free speech not free
> > teh tarik".
> How would you propose this be done? Set a date say 3 months from now, plan an event, and go for gold?
> 
> > We could also start up our translation team, because it seems that the
> > Bahasa Melayu translations in Ubuntu, Gnome, KDE, and OO.o packages is
> > non existent / can still be polished. We could make an on-line project
> > pages for this so that other people can contribute as well.
> https://launchpad.net/~malaysianteam
> https://launchpad.net/~gnu-l10n-ms
> https://launchpad.net/~ms-translators
> 
> > Down the line, It would be great if we could spread the Ubuntu word
> > around schools and colleges as Ubuntu is great for education, plus it
> > helps rural schools with slim budgets. I've installed beafanatix (Breezy
> > based distro) in some schools in Sabah, seems that they really it.
> Good job :)
> 
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