Asia Open Source Community Produced 6 Ready To Use Solutions
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SUKABUMI, WEDNESDAY-- A number of open source activists gather in Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Conference and Training Camp Asia Source II produced 6 ready to use solutions that can be used freely by the community. The event was held in Sukabumi, West Java on January 22 to 30.
The 6 solutions are for small medium enterprise (SME), non-govermental organization (NGO), security system, audio video processing, open publishing for public journalism, and Camp4us to manage trainings. Each of them contains relevant free software or open source applications. The provided one package solutions are effort from Asia's open source community to fulfill people's need who hesitates to migrate to open source.
"Open source applications have little differences than the proprietary ones, it needs a will to try," said Bona Simanjuntak, one of ICT Watch founder and manager. Although, he did not deny so many people do not know open source. He hopes that the one package solution can help them to migrate from proprietary systems to open source.
Besides, Simos Xenitellis, one of Asia Source participant from Greece, stated that open source usage in developing countries like Indonesia has many advantages. Other than reducing investment cost, it has great community support all over the world. The Ph.D. student from Information Security Royal Holloway University of London is experienced in helping and give trainings to organizations who wanted to migrate to open source and involved in translating open source software to Greek.
He valued the government support on open source through "Indonesia, Go Open Source!" which is supported by 5 ministries and departments is a positive step. Until now, the IGOS program has delivered ready to use applications and became a standard in Research and Technology Ministry Office and soon to be introduced to other institutions.
Translated into English by Oni Budipramono
Original link in Bahasa: http://www.kompas.com/ver1/iptek/0701/31/153702.htm
The 6 solutions are for small medium enterprise (SME), non-govermental organization (NGO), security system, audio video processing, open publishing for public journalism, and Camp4us to manage trainings. Each of them contains relevant free software or open source applications. The provided one package solutions are effort from Asia's open source community to fulfill people's need who hesitates to migrate to open source.
"Open source applications have little differences than the proprietary ones, it needs a will to try," said Bona Simanjuntak, one of ICT Watch founder and manager. Although, he did not deny so many people do not know open source. He hopes that the one package solution can help them to migrate from proprietary systems to open source.
Besides, Simos Xenitellis, one of Asia Source participant from Greece, stated that open source usage in developing countries like Indonesia has many advantages. Other than reducing investment cost, it has great community support all over the world. The Ph.D. student from Information Security Royal Holloway University of London is experienced in helping and give trainings to organizations who wanted to migrate to open source and involved in translating open source software to Greek.
He valued the government support on open source through "Indonesia, Go Open Source!" which is supported by 5 ministries and departments is a positive step. Until now, the IGOS program has delivered ready to use applications and became a standard in Research and Technology Ministry Office and soon to be introduced to other institutions.
Translated into English by Oni Budipramono
Original link in Bahasa: http://www.kompas.com/ver1/iptek/0701/31/153702.htm
Last modified 2007-02-20 11:29 AM
