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  • 36-Hour OSS WebDev Contest - Thursday, 02 September 2010
    In its bid to spur creativity – the key to national transformation, MAMPU is organising the inaugural 36-Hour Open Source Software Web Application Development (OSS WebDev) Contest, which is to ...Read more
  • Government Saves RM 200 million through OSS - various press media - Tuesday, 24 August 2010
    Various press reports on the RM 200 million costs savings attained by the Government through massive OSS implementation in the Public Sector, which was made known to the public through ...Read more
  • MAMPU officiates the CTP Launching Ceremony organised by AMDI, USM - Monday, 23 August 2010
    MAMPU Deputy Director General, YBhg. Dato' Dr. Nor Aliah Binti Mohd Zahri delivers an inspiring speech to officiate the launching ceremony of the Certified Training Provider Programme (CTP) for ...Read more
  • Malaysian Business Magazines Reported success of the Government's OSS effort - Wednesday, 18 August 2010
    The mb-e, the technology and e-commerce section of the August 1st - 15th, 2010 issue of the Malaysian Business Magazine, reported on Malaysia's outstanding leadership and accomplishment in Public Sector ...Read more
  • MAMPU invited to participate in ICT exhibition at UPSI - Thursday, 29 July 2010
    MAMPU has accepted the invitation from ICT centre of the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) to participate in their Program Hari ICT dan Galakan Membaca 2010 on 5 ...Read more
  • MAMPU Conducted Strategic Thrust Workshop - Wednesday, 21 July 2010
    OSCC MAMPU conducted its 2010 Strategic Thrust Workshop on 3rd August 2010 at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC). The workshop was conducted to further invigorate and strengthen the drive for ...Read more
  • Michael Tiemann Compliments the Government of Malaysia in OSI website - Tuesday, 13 July 2010
    The President of the Open Source Initiative, Mr. Michael Tiemann, has complimented Malaysia for demonstrating outstanding leadership and accomplishment in Public Sector OSS implementation, especially the 97% adoption rate in ...Read more
  • MAMPU Forms Panel of OSCC Products Service Providers - Tuesday, 13 July 2010
    Government agencies planning to implement OSCC products will soon be able to receive the best technical support and consultancy services from a pool of competent and qualified ICT organisations which ...Read more
  • MAMPU Hosts 5th Asian Open Source Software Centre (AOSSC) Closed Meeting - Friday, 09 July 2010
    Malaysia and MAMPU were given the honour to host the fifth AOSSC closed meeting, which was held on 30 June 2010 at OSCC MAMPU. Read more
  • The Director General of MAMPU To Officiate MSC Malaysia OS Conference (MOSC 2010) - Thursday, 24 June 2010
    The Director General of MAMPU, Dato' Mohamad Zabidi Bin Zainal officiated the MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference held from 29 June - 1 July 2010 at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala ...Read more
  • MAMPU Conducted OSS Adoption Seminar and workshop at Sabah on 24 -25 June 2010 - Tuesday, 15 June 2010
    MAMPU conducted an OSS Adoption Seminar and OSS Opportunity workshop on 24 and 25 June 2010 at INTAN, Sabah Campus to increase OSS awareness among Government agencies from Sabah and ...Read more
  • Industry Participation Plan Workshop (IPP) - Thursday, 27 May 2010
    MAMPU has conducted its fourth Industry Participation Plan Workshop on 27 May 2010 at OSCC. The workshop was attended by 18 Private Sector Organisations such as Red Hat Asia Pacific ...Read more
  • Delivering Maximum Business Value By Leveraging Open Source Technology - Wednesday, 03 March 2010
    Open Source Technology Seminar will be held on 10th March 2010 at Putrajaya International Convention Centre. Registration is required although admission is free due to limited seats available. 10 early ...Read more
  • Open Source Day @ FSKTM UPM - Tuesday, 23 February 2010
    OPEN SOURCE DAY “to Creates Innovative Open Source Solutions for the Challenges facing the educational community” Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FSKMT), UPM is organized ...Read more
  • IIU Free and Open Source Software Day2010 (FossDay ‘10) - Thursday, 18 February 2010
    IIU Free and Open Source Software Day2010 (FossDay ‘10) will be held on 19th February 2010 (Friday) at KICT Building (ICT). This program organised by Information and ...Read more
  • Google Summer of Code 2010 is on! - Tuesday, 09 February 2010
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  • Symbian phone operating system goes open source - Monday, 08 February 2010
    The Symbian Foundation's announced that it has now migrated its smartphone operating system to open source. Any organisation or individual can now use and modify the platform's underlying source code ...Read more
  • PyCon Asia Pacific Conference in Singapore - Thursday, 04 February 2010
    PyCon Asia Pacific will be held on 9 - 11 June 2010 at Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Singapore Management University. It is a conference dedicated to the Python programming language ...Read more
  • Penang State Government Migrating to OpenOffice.org - Tuesday, 02 February 2010
    Penang State Government is migrating to OpenOffice.org. In 2009, a migration team was specifically set up for this purpose. OpenOffice.org training to this migration team is already underway. In 2010, it is ...Read more
  • M'sia govt touts 95 percent OSS adoption - Tuesday, 02 February 2010
    SINGAPORE--Some 95 percent of Malaysia's government agencies have adopted open source software (OSS), but the remaining 5 percent have not warmed to the concept--and is unlikely to anytime soon, according ...Read more
  • GovTech Asia 27-28 January 2010 ,Singapore - Sunday, 31 January 2010
    GovTech AsiaAmara Hotel, Singapore27-28 January 2010 MAMPU presented the following papers: Creating More Citizen Centric E-Services Dr. Nor Aliah BT Mohd Zahri Deputy Director General (ICT) MAMPU, MALAYSIA ...Read more
  • Growing OSS Deployment in Nordic and Benelux regions - Friday, 29 January 2010
    According to a regional survey conducted by by TNS Gallup on behalf of Sun Microsystem, 44 percent of all large and medium-sized companies in the Nordic and Benelux countries are ...Read more
  • Norway's national radio and TV corporation, Norsk rikkringkasting (NRK) is moving to OpenOffice and - Friday, 22 January 2010
    Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK is seriously taking the move to Open Document Format as a standard. From the first of March the majority of its 4,300 clients ...Read more
  • Enterprise PHP TechTalk 2010 - Thursday, 21 January 2010
    The Enterprise PHP TechTalk 2010 will be held for two days at MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia on 27 and 28 January 2010 to promote PHP awareness, best practices and ...Read more
  • UNIMAP Offering OSS training - Wednesday, 06 January 2010
    Universiti Malaysia Perlis is beginning to offer Comprehensive training in GNU/Linux System Administration. This hands-on course is designed for beginner and intermediate users who wish to understand & gain essential knowledge ...Read more
  • Kumpulan Sokongan Komputer Internet dan Sumber Terbuka OSS Malaysia 2009 - Tuesday, 15 December 2009
    Senarai ini diharapkan dapat membantu bagi yang mencari kumpulan sokongan komputer, Internet dan sumber terbuka, Open Source Software (OSS) bagi pengguna komputer dan Internet Malaysia. Dokumen dalam bentuk PDF, ODT ...Read more
  • Whitehouse.gov Goes Drupal - Thursday, 12 November 2009
    According to The New York Times, the flagship website of the U.S Government, Whitehouse.gov has migrated from proprietary Content Management System (CMS) to Drupal, an Open Source CMS. The U.S ...Read more
  • French Government decided to go open source - Monday, 09 November 2009
    The French Government's public finance department will replace its IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office with Mozilla's Thunderbird email service, Lightning Calendar and an open-source groupware applications. About 130,000 desktop ...Read more
  • MyGOSSCON 2009 published in the Star Paper - Friday, 30 October 2009
    The third successive Malaysian Government Open Source Software conference, MyGOSSCON 2009 has been published in the Star paper dated 29 October 2009. For full story, please click here (http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/29/nation/4941247&sec=nation). ...Read more
  • OSS Case Study Gets Accreditation From International Body - Tuesday, 27 October 2009
    The OSS Case Study of the Advanced Medical and Dental Institute (AMDI), Universiti Sains Malaysia is recognised by the Koha community in Taiwan. The Case Studies entitled ...Read more