Jim Lacey, President and CEO of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
Jim is the President and CEO of the Linux Professional Institute with affiliate organizations in more than 20 countries. Jim's experience is in managing
and building international organizations with specific focus on channel development within the IT training and certification industry. His past roles include: General Manager of Linuxcare University (Linuxcare Corporation), Director of Operations and Regional Training Director for the Technology Training Division of CompUSA, and Territory Sales Manager with Serono Diagnostics (Ares-Serono Group, Switzerland) and Polaroid-Behring Diagnostics.
Jim served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and graduated with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
LPI brings together an active and committed community of companies, IT professionals, training organizations and volunteers to achieve LPI's programs. LPI is recognized worldwide as the premier organization advocating and assisting in the professional use of Linux, Open Source, and Free Software.
LPI Official Website : http://www.lpi.org/
Rizatuddin Ramli Director at UNIK, Office of Prime Minister, Malaysia
A professional manager in technology management, assessment, customer care and international marketing, With over 14 years of total working experience with more than 5 years of solid experience in managing technology & investment process including strategy, technology evaluation, portfolio monitoring, and technology mapping.
After serving multinationals Intel Corp and Oracle Corp, he joined Multimedia Development Corp in 1998, where he held various management positions, including served as Special Officer (ICT,Biotech) to then to the Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation in 2004-06. My role as Director of Global Profiling and Portfolio Management, involved developing MSC Malaysia global icons (companies) as a function of innovative companies that was nurtured from the MSC Malaysia initiatives. One of the Key program still running is the SCORE+ and Portfolio Management programme Currently serving with UNIK, Office of Prime Minister. A Unit tasked to spearhead innovation and accelerate commercialisation initiatives.
Unit Inovasi Khas (UNIK) http://www.unik.com.my/
Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM) http://agensi.inovasimalaysia.com/
Large Scale Open Source NMS deployment
During this talk the audience will learn on how to design and implement a large scale NMS solution based on Nagios. This real world showcase (deployed in Malaysia) demonstrates that it is possible to monitor over 100'000 services and thousands of hosts with opensource based NMS frameworks and therefore compete with closed source commercial NMS solutions.
The audience will also get information about how much yearly savings this specific client achieves with this solution.
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Krahenbuhl
Dr. Daniel Krahenbuhl has a wide knowledge of Linux, and business with Open-Source solutions, wireless solutions, mobile business solutions, and information security products. After his PhD in Computer Science in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT - USA), Dr Daniel incorporated Scout24, in Europe, and found two strong investors for it in Metro Group and BHS (large trading organizations). Scout24 was founded in 1998; today Scout24 is Europe's largest online market place with as many as 100 million visits per year. Scout24 was sold out to T-Online (German Telekom).
Since 2008, Dr Daniel is serving as CEO and co-founder of Intuittech Sdn Bhd, a successful start-up company in Malaysia which is fully focused on selling Asterisk- and Nagios-based solutions and services, globally. With 300% sales growth over 2009, with the Digium Award as proof factor of the reliability of Intuit services, with new products in the pipeline for 2010, with internal expansion, Dr Daniel and Intuit are setting up the standards in Open-Source business.
Microsoft Milking The Cloud
"Milking the Cloud" commenced with challenges to the developers to deploy PHP applications onto the on premise Windows platform. With the increasing community interest of the cloud, we have expanded the program to also include the Windows Azure Cloud platform. For more information please visit http://www.mosc.my/articles/item/7-milking-the-cloud-competition-for-mosc2011
Speaker : Lee Daqing - Building Open Source Applications on Azure
He is currently a Senior Consultant and a Technical Marketing Manager of a Malaysian ISV, where he works on product development, marketing, & evangelizing various IT solutions.
His focus has always been in encouraging next-generation UX application development for the web as well as desktop based applications. His area of interest are on cloud, rich internet applications (RIA), web & client application development, open source development, usability and web accessibility.
He is still actively served as a presenting speaker and/or conducted workshop sessions in various technology events around the country.
Nuts and Bolts of Virtualization : How To Deliver Cost Effective Solutions Without Compromising Performance, Scalability or Security for Your Organization
In today's fast-changing business climate, IT professional is no longer just a technology solution enabler but that of an advocate for technology selections to manage competing business needs. Increasingly, most IT professionals are being squeezed between the need to deliver cutting edge technology solutions at a flat or more likely, lower cost structure than today's IT investment.
Such industry shifts have created a fertile environment in driving the adoption of Open Source software in the business environment, in particularly, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has enable businesses to deploy and manage their IT resources efficiently. By helping them more efficiently utilize hardware, software, and personnel, Red Hat will enables them to build infrastructures that are flexible, scalable, and most importantly, economical as they strive to be truly agile business.
Speaker : Syamsul Anuar Abd Nasir
Syamsul Anuar Abd Nasir is a Sr Technical Consultant for Abyres Sdn Bhd, an MSC status company focusing in the areas of Enterprise Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Backup Management, Network Security and Enterprise DB, all based on Open Source Technology. Prior to Abyres, he managed a start-up named Warix Technologies that focus on cloud computing-related technologies for enterprise and the government and also served as Head of IT for a listed Oil & Gas company. A Fedora Ambassador since 2008, he is actively involved in Malaysia Open Source software scene especially related to Fedora, Linux, Virtualization (especially KVM and RHEV) and other open source technologies that interest him. He can be found online at wariola.warix.my and twitter.com/wariola.
Keeping Your Feet on the Ground with PHP and noSQL in the Cloud
Keeping Your Feet on the Ground with PHP and noSQL in the Cloud. A developer's real-world dissection of Amazon Web Services and MongoDB.
The cloud and noSQL memes have taken the Internet by storm, now synonymous with modern Internet development and the de facto prerequisite for a well-written application. Cloud computing promises solutions for old problems that are better, faster and cheaper, while noSQL is the web-scale elixir for an antiquated SQL.
But with all of the hype and promise, on daily basis we as developers and IT architects must solve established challenges while dealing with new technical minutia that's behind the marketing.
Hans Zaunere, Managing Member, Stackware, LLC and Founder, New York PHP, clears the air surrounding the cloud and noSQL buzz by looking at the actual technology in use, it's impact on your real-world development, and the challenges it can solve - and introduce.
In this talk:
- The Technical Cloud
○ Setting expectations by defining cloud offerings and comparing to standard hosting.
- Defining the "no" in noSQL
○ What you gain and lose when saying no to SQL.
- The Top 5 PHP Development Challenges Meet the Cloud and noSQL
○ The pros and cons of solving old problems with nascent technology.
- Putting PHP and noSQL in the Cloud
○ How it's changing development and the future of application architecture.
Speaker : Hans Zaunere
Hans Zaunere is a senior systems and startup architect with over 15 years of experience advising on, architecting, and implementing mission critical solutions around the world.
Mr. Zaunere uniquely provides strategic insight backed by technical expertise in demanding military, financial, medical and start-up environments.
Mr. Zaunere creates innovation and opportunity by building and then leading global technology communities, frequently lecturing, writing, and producing events.
Mr. Zaunere is Managing Member, Stackware, LLC, where he manages a technical solutions team for select customers worldwide and engages communities in North America, Asia and Europe.
Innovation Relative To Security Software
An overview of the security software market in the region with an analysis of M&A activity impacting the future products. Correlation between innovation and the influence of financial markets is looked at as well.
Speaker: Devtar Singh
http://www.idc.com.my/analysts/Devtar_Singh.asp
Devtar Singh is the Associate Market Analyst in the Software team based in Malaysia. In this role, Devtar focuses on infrast
ructure management, information management analytics and security software research in Southeast Asia. He heads the Technology Investment Research practice for Southeast Asia where he works with venture capital firms and investment banks on technology investment strategies. He also authors reports and participates in regional consulting projects.
Prior to joining IDC, Devtar worked for Accenture as the Technology Analyst focusing in the oil/gas and fund management industries. Here he was involved on M&A and sequence engineering projects. During his tenure with Accenture, Devtar obtained his ITIL IT Service Management and Oracle Order and Service Management certification.
Devtar graduated from Multimedia University, Malaysia with a Bachelors of Information Technology majoring in Security Technology. Throughout his bachelors, he was a Microsoft Student Partner for Multimedia University, Malaysia. Devtar was a mentor for Google’s Open Source Programs Office through the Summer of Code program.
Published Research: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF003480
Koha Workshop
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. http://koha-community.org/
Speaker : Mrs. Irma Birchall
http://au.linkedin.com/in/irmabirchall
Irma Birchall is the founder of CALYX information essentials, a Koha and Kete support provider in Australia. She worked at Sydney University's Fisher Library and other libraries for 10 years after graduating in Library Sciences and is an active member of the Australian Library and Information Association. She is also a member various free software user groups and takes part in many GLAM (Galleries/Libraries/Archives/Museums) sector activities.
During implementations, Irma's focus is on training, and she brings to her clients a solid understanding of Koha, library processes, international library standards and of the Australian library context. Irma speaks French, German and is learning Spanish.
Speaker : Mr. Robin Sheat
http://nz.linkedin.com/in/robinsheat
Software Developer - Koha Team at Catalyst IT Limited
Robin Sheat has broad experience in various open source related technologies, mostly in the domain of software development. I have worked on large, scalable web systems in Perl, web and desktop applications in Java, system administration scripts in Puppet and shell scripting, and a number of other similar things.
Along with this industry experience, I have also gathered a range of more academic skills, such as artificial intelligence and data mining.
Google App Engine With Gaelyk
Easy cloud application development. Or why using Gaelyk is like cheating the cloud development game.
Speaker : Teo Choong Ping
Teo Choong Ping is a passionate software developer and Software Architect at FavoriteMedium. He is an avid technology reader and someone who try to have fun and profit in this crazy software development industry.
RFID Application with Open Source Technology
Management and Science University has developed a number of application using open source technology. The different idea or concept for the system is to optimize manpower or resources in the administration, to expedite report generation and integration with smart card and RFID. The use of RFID and Mifare card enables further development of the system which will include door access security, electricity utilization and class attendance. This paper discusses the development of web-based application using RFID in open source environment.
Speaker : Prof. Md Gapar Md Johar
A certified e-commerce consultant, he has over 30 years working experience in software and application development and has developed many applications such as Housing Loan Accounting System, Commercial Vehicle Licensing System, Human Resource Management System, Learning Content Management System, Campus Management System, Student Relationship Management System and Hospital Information System. His research interests include object-oriented analysis and design, software engineering, Java programming, digital image analysis, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and knowledge management.
Currently he is involved in research and development of Jawi Word Processor and Converter in open system environment, RFID application, image processing and character recognition, e-learning and digital content design. He holds B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science, M.Sc in Data Engineering and PhD in Computer Science.
LaTeX: More Than Just Academic Papers and Theses
LaTeX is a document preparation system capable of producing professional quality typesetting output. It is especially suited for documents with complex structures and mathematical material, and is the preferred format of many academic publishers. But modern LaTeX packages allow for the creation of material beyond academic papers and theses, and for various disciplines: presentation slides, leaflets, oversized posters, graph plots, fillable PDF forms, electronic circuit diagrams, chemical structures and reactions DNA sequences, linguistic syntax trees, even a Gantt chart or two for the project managers!
Speaker : Lim Lian Tze
Lian Tze is the author of the usmthesis, mmuthesis and umalayathesis LaTeX packages (http://liantze.penguinattack.org/latextypesetting.html). She is a frequent contributor to the Malaysian LaTeX User Group (http://latex-my.blogspot.com).
Product Roadmap of MySQL - RDBMS and NoSQL, And Beyond
MySQL has announced new product roadmap beyond MySQL 5.5 and MySQL Cluster 7.1.We summarize MySQL's first year under Oracle's stewardship, discuss thecurrent and ongoing engagement with the MySQL users and offer insights into future roadmaps and commitment to MySQL products.
Current major version MySQL 5.5 has number of enhancements in performance, scalability, and availability. MySQL development team is accelerating development of InnoDB storage engine to implement some legacy features of MyISAM into InnoDB.
Also, with new NDB Engine for Memcached, you can use Memcached as a caching interface to MySQL Cluster, Or it can be configured so that NDB simply serves as a reliable persistent backend for memcache, making MySQL Cluster's fault tolerance and geographic replication available to memcached.
Speaker : Ryusuke Kajiyama
Ryusuke is OSS Specialist with 10+ years of experience of systems design using MySQL and open source solutions. He originally joined MySQL, and is now working as MySQL Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle based in Japan. Responsible for consulting and education of MySQL, covering all Asian countries.
Prior to join MySQL, he was Consultant at Nomura Research Institute, Japan's largest consulting firm, working on enterprise systems design with OSS. He is the project lead of "OpenOLAP for MySQL", Co-Founder of Japan JBoss Users Group.
REST in pieces (with FRAPI)
Simplicity can be applied to all sorts of problems, regardless of its complexity. Because simplicity exists in the problem ecosystem and not within the problem itself. It is not true when associating simplicity for fixing small problems, and more complex and big-money solutions for more bigger and complicated problems. With FRAPI, you can rapidly develop RESTful APIs that are high performing and scalable. Instead of 'fighting' with available PHP frameworks, Frapi is a framework that embraces the standards and mindset of web modelling, which is definitely fantastic for building web applications. It can also be applied to power your web applications, mobile services, and also legacy systems.This talk will covers how developers can actually rest, with Frapi. http://phpcoe.mimos.my/
Speaker : Errazudin Ishak
Errazudin holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Sofware Engineering) and works as Solution Architect at Mimos Berhad, a Malaysian government research agency, in ICT and frontier technology. His job focuses on web application development, deployment, performance and stability. He has spoken at several meetups and conferences and has worked with various back-end and web technologies. In his free time he loves to emulate Richard Gasquet’s swerving backhand on court.
MariaDB: The New M in LAMP
MariaDB is a branch of the popular MySQL database. The project began in 2009 circled around a storage engine, but quickly evolved to being another database, with two major releases in 2010. This session aims to introduce the project, and will help and DBA or developer get to grips with MariaDB. MariaDB is community developed, feature enhanced and backward compatible with MySQL.
MariaDB started life as a database to host the Maria (now renamed Aria) storage engine in 2009. Not long after its inception
, the MySQL community went through yet another change in ownership, and it was deemed that MariaDB will be a complete database branch developed to extend MySQL, but with constant merging of upstream changes.
The goal of the MariaDB project is to ensure that everyone is part of the community, including employees of the major steering companies. MariaDB also features enhanced features, some of which are common with the Percona Performance Server. Most importantly, MariaDB is a drop-in replacement and is completely backward compatible with MySQL. In 2010, MariaDB released 5.1 in February, and 5.2 in November - two major releases in a span of one calendar year is a feat that was achieved!
Specific focus areas of the talk will include:
* why MariaDB executes queries faster -- all thanks to its improved optimiser
* the focus of different engines and why with MariaDB/MySQL, knowing which engine to pick, really makes a difference to your workload. MariaDB includes Aria, XtraDB, PBXT, FederatedX, OQGRAPH, SphinxSE and there are more to come
* new features like pool of threads support, table elimination, virtual columns, extended user statistics, segmented key cache
* why plugin's are utilised in MariaDB, and how to make use of pluggable authentication (PAM, LDAP, etc.) amongst other things
* why testing your database is important -- MariaDB has more coverage testing
* getting involved with the MariaDB project
* how features like
An overview of future features like Batched Key Access and GIS functionality will also be covered briefly.
DBAs and developers alike will gain an introduction to MariaDB, what is different with MySQL, how to make use of the feature
enhancements, and more.
Speaker : Colin Charles
Colin Charles hacks on MariaDB, a MySQL fork at Monty Program Ab and advises Open Ocean Investments companies such as Web of Trust and MoSync. He lives in Kuala Lumpur. Before MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He’s spoken at many conferences – linux.conf.au, The MySQL Conference & Expo, foss.in, to name a few. He is currently a council member at the Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) and Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia (TeAM). He is Director at Grok Sdn Bhd.
Improving Application Security Assurance with OWASP ASVS
The primary aim of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) Project is to normalize the range in the coverage and level of rigour available in the market when it comes to performing Web application security verification using a commercially-workable open standard. The standard provides a basis for testing application technical security controls, as well as any technical security controls in the environment, that are relied on to protect against vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL injection. This standard can be used to establish a level of confidence in the security of Web applications.
During the presentation, Cecil will show how the ToV (Target of Verification) can be applied in real life cases.
Speaker : Cecil Su
Cecil is the Director for Grant Thornton Technology Advisory Pte Ltd, a member firm of Foo Kon Tan Grant Thornton LLP, one of the largest auditing firms outside the Big4. As head of the Technology Advisory unit, he leads various engagement teams on diversified projects across vertical industries. His area of focus is in IT Assurance, IT Security Advisory and Digital Forensics.
Cecil had diverse opportunities outside of work offering his time for various IT Security initiatives. Aside from being a committee member of the OWASP Global Education Committee, he has also contributed to the widely-used OWASP Testing Guide, and coordinated efforts for the internationalization of Asian languages of OWASP materials. Cecil is also the current Chapter Lead for the Singapore Honeynet Project, an ExCo member for the Association of Information Security Professionals (AISP) for 2009/2010/2011, and a founding member of the Singapore Cloud Forum.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computing Information Systems from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Besides being a practicing ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Lead Auditor, he also holds certifications from CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, OPST, OCP DBA, PCI QSA and CNE.
Simple Programming with Gambas
Gambas is very easy to operate and program, it is reserved for Linux and Unix base operating system. Its can be used to teach beginners in learning programming and developement software. http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html
Speaker : Nur Asmawi Subri
Software Developer for Team Developer Sabily and The Head of R&D Community Sabily Malaysia in developing several projects with theme of Life, Learning and Computer.
Real Time Data Visualization in the Cloud using Open Source Data Management Platform
Overview of available Open Source Business Intelligence Platform and the kind of information you can manage and make accessible. How Cloud architecture can help you to make your data worldwide available using Amazon Elastic Cloud, Google Table, Google Maps & Google Earth to store and display data on the Web. Case study "Vanilla & Google (Map, Earth) integration".
Speaker : Patrick Beaucamp
Patrick Beaucamp is founder of the Vanilla project, the only true Open Source Business Intelligence Platform, and Ceo of Bpm-Conseil, the company
behind the Vanilla project.
With almost 20 years of experience in BI area, with participation in early 90s to Cognos PowerPlay & Impromptu launch in West Europe, Patrick is leading the Vanilla project to success and recognition.
The Vanilla project was recently rewarded by independant analysts as one of the Top 10 successfull French Open Source Project (April 09), and as major competitor of SAP Business Object, IBM Cognos and Microstrategy platform (november 09), while Bpm-Conseil was rewarder as one of the 3 major French innovative player in IT and one of the 100 companies to watch in Europe by RedHerring in June 2010.
Recently, Patrick was a co-writer for Best selling Book "Bpm HandBook 2010", with a specific chapter on Open Source Bi & Bpm integration.
Data Warehousing with Open Source Technologies (or why not to use Data Marts in 2010)
The role of business intelligence within corporations and governments is to store, improve and analyse key information in order to make data-driven decisions. However these projects suffer from a high failure rate due to the complexity and significant costs in establishing a data warehouse. Successful data warehousing projects are based on a combination of business sponsorship and solid database systems expertise.
This session will discuss the open source technologies, in a vendor neutral way, that can be brought together to provide data warehouse capabilities at a fraction of the setup costs for a traditional environment. The technologies will cover a range of areas including DBMS’s, development, ETL, reporting and data mining. Finally, this paper will discuss cutting-edge research and techniques to improve existing Business Intelligence systems.
Speaker : Evan Leybourn
Evan Leybourn is a manager, trainer and public speaker with over 10 years of experience in the fields of Business Intelligence (BI), Information Data Management (IDM) and Agile Project Management. He has held senior managerial and consulting positions in private industry and government and currently works as the Director of Business Intelligence with the Australian Government in Canberra.
Evan runs regular management, business intelligence and agile professional development courses across Australia and South East Asia and speaks at a variety of ICT and management conferences on :-
* ICT Leadership
* Agile Project Management
* Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
* Agile Business Intelligence
Cooperative Model : Another Way Making Profit From Open Source
Cooperative is an opportunity for making profit from Free/Libre & Open Source Software (FLOSS) by using cooperative business model. On the talks, speaker will explain why cooperative model should implemented by OSS community as well as businesses and its benefits, and how this can lead innovation in FLOSS/OSS world.
http://wiki.kostem.my/index.php/Koperasi_Sumber_Terbuka_Malaysia_(KOSTEM)
Apart, speaker will briefly story about Malaysia's first open source cooperative, Koperasi Sumber Terbuka Malaysia berhad (KOSTEM) (en: Malaysian Open Source Cooperative Limited) that will be established soon, and what the benefit joining this - perhaps first in the world - coop especially for community in Malaysia.
Speaker : Mohamad Imran Ishak
Mohamad Imran Ishak, nicknamed MakLaN, is a Secretary of Pro tem Committee for the first proposed cooperative dedicated to Free/Libre & Open Source Software (FLOSS) community fans/industry in Malaysia. Together with few persons from community, the role of Pro tem Committee is to plan and ensure the first FLOSS cooperative in Malaysia become reality.
Research + Open Source = Innovation: The Way We Do It
Conducting research is essential to move forwards in making innovation. Understanding current system is crucial in conducting a research in order to extend it to a new system. Our group is working in a research on secure communication in heterogeneous network – mixed of IPv4 and IPv6. The underlying technology used is IPSec and certificateless cryptosystem. The focuses of our research are in enabling the IPSec channel in a mixed IPv4 and IPv6 network and in integrating the new certficateless cryptosystem in IPSec.
This talk is about our research and how we use open source in our research. We will discuss about the advantages of using open source and how it helps us. We will also presents the software and tools that is used in our research.
Speaker : Asrul Hadi Yaacob
Asrul Hadi is a full time lecturer and researcher in computer network and IT security. His area of research includes network and computer security, cryptography as well as network and computer forensics.
He is a Certified Linux Professional (LPIC-1) and the appointed instructor for Sun Academy Initiative (SAI) for Solaris Operating System. Being in the network security field for the past nine years, he has presented at numerous conferences and published articles in several journals.
He holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur and Diplôme d'Étude Approfondie from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. He is currently taught in Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University for eight years. He is currently pursuing his PhD in network security.
Gpars: Concurrency For Dummies ... And Real People Too
Face it, concurrency is hard. Everything from unit testing, debugging and even creating concurrent software becomes a very tangled business when concurrency is involved. Unfortunately, with the advent of multi-core processors and cloud computing, no developers can escape concurrency. GPars, a concurrency framework for both Groovy and Java was created to tackle the challenge of simplifying concurrency. This paper will visit some aspects of GPars that will simplify the life of real world developers.
Speaker : Azrul Hasni MADISA
Azrul Hasni MADISA graduated with a diplôme d'ingenieur (MSc. equivalent) from one of France's top Engineering Schools (INSA) in 2002. Soon after, he joined TMNet and was assigned to TMNet's billing team as an IT engineer. His passion for teaching led him to resign from TMNet and joined Multimedia University (MMU) as a lecturer. He won several commendation awards from the President of MMU for his teaching skills. In 2004 he joined JTrend, a Sun Microsystems, MMU and MDeC collaboration project to help Malaysian technopreneurs. Under his guidance, several companies in JTrend managed to penetrate markets as far as the UK. Some even manage to won the Asian APICTA award. In 2007, he joined Billadam, a UK company specializing in mobile content, as the Chief Technology Officer. In 2010, he joined Experian R&D, a UK based financial analytics company, as a software architect. He currently leads a team specializing in datawarehousing and BI implementations. He is also a blackbelt in Aikido and teaches Aikido to kids in the weekends. In his free time he likes to read - that is, if he manages to put his 7 year old son and his 3 year old daughter to bed first.
The Low Overhead x86 Virtualization System
MesinMaya is an award winning open source virtualization system. Its architecture provides a low overhead operations for virtual machine executions. This is very critical in boosting performance and enhancing expensive translation operations. As a "system", MesinMaya runs on top of its own kernel and provides its own hypervisor and secure user space. To become a full-fledged system especially in providing greater experience for cloud computing deployment, MesinMaya requires a lot of codes components from programmers. This presentation is targeting system programmers, researchers and software companies that wish to create remote modules or components for MesinMaya particularly in enhancing cloud computing usage. The copyright and ownership for creating remote modules or components for MesinMaya is entirely belongs to the person who code it. It can be written in any programming languages that support network protocols. Codes owner then can decide to sell it or to publish it as open source.
Speaker : Azril Azam Abdul Rahim
Azril Azam to this date has a cumulative of 15 years in embedded system and kernel development, computer security and applications system programming experiances. Throughout those years he has developed several software titles, both commercial and open source. He is also has received a numbers of local and international awards and recognition for his research works, both from industries and governments. He is currently the founder, owner and lead developer for MesinMaya. His interest in virtualization started in 1998 when VMWARE made a breakthrough on their patented binary translation. Later, he moved on to other various virtualization projects such as PLEX86, BOSCH, XEN and KVM. He also has involved in several other smaller scale global virtualization projects utilizing L4 microkernel and MINIX. In 2007, he designed the low overhead x86 virtualization architecture to allow full virtualization on mobile devices whilst complementing trusted computing elements. After the success, realizing there is no much benefit in mobile market, he has made an effort for many years to port it on high scale computer. Azril obtained both computer science and operation management degrees from the University of Missouri. He is also holds computer security certifications in GCFA, CEH, ECSP and CEI.
Defect Handling Mechanism in Various Open Source Projects
Includes the results of a survey on the ways several open source projects handle the user reported defects and how they acted on the user reports.
Speaker: Dr. Normi Sham Awang Abu Bakar – International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Normi Sham Awang Abu Bakar is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Her research interests are software metrics and measurement, empirical software engineering and quality of open source software. She has published several papers on software metrics and the quality of open source software.
Rails 3 - Writing Beautiful Code
Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days. Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. Rails3 is derived from rails and merb framework, since than both of them started to share more and more. This presentation will be focus about new features in Rails3.
Speaker : Amir Haris Ahmad
Amir Haris Ahmad is a visionary in information technology and computer security fields, with particular interest in DNS technology and IPv6. Prior joining Localhost SDN BHD as Chief Security Officer, He was a Senior Researcher at .my DOMAIN REGISTRY, doing research on DNS Security Extension (DNSSEC). Amir's extensive technical background includes DNS, UNIX operating systems, IPv6, and software development in C/C++, ruby and web technology (rails3). He was also a speaker on DNSSEC related topics at few conferences such as MOSC, MYGOSSCON and Hack in The Box (SIGINT-HITB2010KL).
Implementing an Open Source Infrastructure in SME
Cost of IT has been in many cases made IT out of reach of most SME. However, it is possible to leverage various enterprise class software and put them into use in SME. This can range from something very simple like office suite to ERP and Business Intelligence software.
In this presentation, participants will hear from experience of the speakers in implementing various open source infrastructure into the company. The speaker had moved from a proprietary environment into a 90% open source withint he organization. Over 90% of the desktops within the speaker's organization has been switched to Linux and has been so for the last 8 years. Speaker will share various caveats, tricks and methodology when adopt an open source strategy.
Speaker : Seah Hong Yee
Mr Seah Hong Yee has been working as a CIO for his company for the last 10 years and has roll out various technology that are either open source or based on open source technology. Mr Seah has oversees the roll out of ERP, BI, and CRM within his organization and all of it are open source software.
birgHPC: Creating Instant Computing Clusters for Bioinformatics and Molecular Dynamics
birgHPC, a bootable Linux Live CD has been developed to create high-performance clusters for bioinformatics and molecular dynamics studies using any Local Area Network (LAN)-networked computers. birgHPC features automated hardware and slots detection as well as provides a simple job submission interface. The latest versions of GROMACS, NAMD, mpiBLAST and ClustalW-MPI can be run in parallel by simply booting the birgHPC CD or flash drive from the head node, which immediately positions the rest of the PCs on the network as computing nodes. Thus, a temporary, affordable, scalable and high-performance computing environment can be built by non-computing-based researchers using low-cost commodity hardware. ISOs, user's guide and FAQs are freely available at http://birg1.fbb.utm.my/birghpc/ and also http://sourceforge.net/projects/birghpc/
Speaker : Chew Teong Han
Mr Chew is currently a research officer in Bioinformatics Lab, Faculty of Biosciences & Bioengineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is currently working in projects involving cluster computing and grid computing.
How Linux Has Evolved: A Retrospective On The Past 10 Years
Ever since Linux burst onto the open source scene as 'the new kid on the block' back in the 90s, it has quickly grown into one of the most widely-used operating systems in the world.
This talk is a retrospective on the growth of Linux from a hobbyist toy to an enterprise-class operating system, the issues the Linux community has faced, technical and legal. We'll cover the development of the Linux kernel, the various distros and desktops, issues with hardware and software vendors. We also take a look at the state of Linux today, how it's changed since the beginning and yet remain the same.
Speaker : Nur Hussein
Nur Hussein is a postgraduate student in Computer Science at Boston University. His area of research is high performance operating systems. He dabbles occasionally in open source, and his favourite OS for playing around with is Linux, which he has been playing with for over a decade. http://unixcat.org
Dhanis: a cloud business services
Intelligent Technology Initiatives, a global technology research and business intelligence services introduce Dhanis. It is cloud based architectures services for enterprise business process services. Dhanis has developed based on open source based technology solutions, there are sql-ledger, ubuntu cloud, and mifos.
Dhanis served several SME organizations in Indonesia, with delivering accounting/financial process, business support services, marketing channel services, and business application services. The services has developed based on the best practices and solutions from the experts. The researcher and the users (SME) use DHANIS as cloud portal to communicate and discuss in business development process. The value of Dhanis information that delivered, such as business data characteristics maps, business analysis information, business intelligence information and audit trial.
Speaker : Mardhani Riasetiawan
Mardhani work for Intelligence Technology Initiatives Research and Working Group as CEO-Project Manager focusing on deliver the intelligent technology and system in green technology, high performance computing, data analysis and intelligence, and open source based research for business, financial and product development.
He have Master of Engineering (MTI) degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada in 2007, and achieved Bachelor degree from Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Gadjah Mada at 2003. He have 9+ years experiences in Information technology and application implementation, strategy and monitoring/audit. He have 8+ years knowledge and experiences in market research and analysis, business intelligence, manage cooperation among multi departments, and strong leaderships. He have experiences in enterprise information system, system integration, data analysis and IT/IS audit. He have 5+ yeas experiences working in development of strategic plan and implementation of IFRS, Financial standard, COBIT, ITIL and ISO standards for enterprise needs.
Scalable and Sustainability of Teaching Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Skills and Managing Schools using Open Source Computing
Teaching and managing schools in Malaysia are going through a enormous development and synchronization with setting up and commissioning of sustainable Computer Learning, Teaching and ICT Skill Development Laboratories successfully. To date there are over 20 computer labs commissioned over a period of two years using open source computing advancement in Malaysian schools.
With the use of open source computing, cost effective solutions for ICT labs were now made available to schools in Malaysia, providing infrastructures needed for teaching and managing educational systems.
The key to this achievement were laid upon the innovation of our research and development team. After a painstaking 3 years of hard work, dedication and a lot of financial difficulties, we were able to implement a reliable and cost effective solutions using open source computing. This pioneering work brings integration to Student Management, Classroom Management, Teacher Management and School Management.
The implemented infrastructure consist of 41 thin clients connected to a server which delivers the required computing speed enabling the students to access wide spectrum of knowledge freely giving equal opportunity in education. Furthermore, a school management application were proposed using open source school ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). Managing educational system were simplified to upgrade the level of our school's teaching and management to be comparable with private educational institutions. This open sourced ERP proven to be the most cost effective and affordable in term of development implementations and maintenance.
This paper will address in detail, how the server based open source computing along with the integrated open source school ERP for schools in Malaysia implemented and how it is gearing up students with sound computing knowledge.
KEYWORD: Thin Client, Open Source, Server Based Computing, Freeware, ERP For Schools.
Speaker : 
Ir. Dr. Saravanan Mariappan is one of the directors for Nexus NGN Sdn Bhd. been involved for the past 3 years in the development and the use of server based open source computing in school with thin clients. At Nexus NGN, we have successfully implemented server base teaching with thin clients for about 20 over schools in Malaysia. Working and developing further into open source we are in the process of performing R & D into the implementation of Open Source base ERP for schools to manage the 20 schools systematically using centralised server. Most importantly design system are required to be scalable, sustainable, maintenance free and most importantly able to eliminate the digital gap between poor and rich students and build the digital bridge between urban and rural students.
GNOME : nuts and bolts
My proposal for talk to make people knowledgeable about GNOME and to get new users and contributors.
My talk will be more about :
* GNOME Introduction.
* User friendly GNOME.
* How can a newbie contribute to GNOME by using GNOME Development tools and GNOME Bugzilla.
* A little introduction of GNOME sponsorship program for women and GSOC.
Speaker : Punit Jain
I am Punit, I work for Novell and contribute to GNOME. I have been contributing for evolution for more than a year. I was involved in several bug fixes in evolution, EDS, evolution-exchange and evolution-mapi. I was also involved in some features development in evolution-mapi (public folder subscription), optimization of EDS calendar backend etc. I am also an active GNOME Bugzilla contributor and have done bug triaging at times. I am also building latest stable and unstable evolution rpms on openSUSE so people can use latest versions.
Scaling Software Development through Internal Open Source and Cloud Infrastructure
Open source thinking is still new to many companies including F-Secure who is starting to make some use of open source tools. For all kinds of reasons, many companies are still not making their products available to the open source community (private or public), so how can these companies reap the benefits of crowd in the world of open source?
In F-Secure, we have created a private cloud platform to enable open source use and development within our R&D. Major changes were undertaken in R&D on all fronts to make this happen, including the formation of more effective feature teams, introducing new ways of working, and setting up a global private cloud. The biggest benefit that we have so far obtained from this approach is that it enables us to scale the software development from the traditionally “proprietary” component teams to many equally capable feature teams that can get their jobs done independently, with end to end responsibilities.
Today, this internal open source cloud platform is the foundation of our product development with many people developing it 24/5, and with over 100,000 automated tests executed automatically in the cloud daily.
This presentation is about what it takes to achieve this development scalability, and the contribution of open source software in realizing it.
Speaker : Chee Chan Keng
Chee Chan Keng is a Senior Manager in F-Secure Kuala Lumpur R&D Center and a member of the Development Center Management team. He has been with F-Secure for 5 years in both Malaysia and Finland. Before F-Secure, Chee Chan worked in Motorola Malaysia and USA for 7 years as a Project Manager and Senior Software Engineer.
Chee Chan has been monitoring open source development for the past 14 years and has been a strong advocate in the field of distributed computing (eg. SaaS, Buzzy Cloud). His current research interests lie within the new developments of Ubuntu, Android and progress in Python language.
Automated test execution with Jenkins CI
Software testing is a fundamental component of SQA and represents a review of specification, design and coding. The importance of software test automation and its impact on Continuous Integration cannot be underestimated. There are a lot of off-the-shelf tools that can automate manual testing, but often they still require manual effort to trigger the tests and get them running simultaneously in multiple machines.
What’s the value in developing or purchasing a commercial framework to perform simultaneous jobs when you already have a reliable open source solution for free? With the power of Jenkins, it enables Continuous Integration with minimal human interaction. Code can be automatically fetched from repositories and tested over the multiple machines. The abundance of plug-ins eases the result collection from multiple machines and the overall quality of the software can be easily visualized in just a glance.
In our team, 3 testers can get 50,000 test cases executed in 80 virtual machines within 3 days. This resulted in 10 times reduction of development cycle time as the tests can be executed overnight and simultaneously. This paper presents what it takes to achieve this result and automation level.
Speaker : Azriana Sanimin
Azriana Sanimin is a Senior Test Engineer in a leading anti-virus industry F-Secure Corp. Sdn Bhd. She has a bachelors degree in Software Engineering and pursuing her Masters in the same field in University Malaya. She has been a software tester for the past 6 years in various well known organizations and actively using open source technologies since the last 3 and half years.
My FOSS, Current, Future & (Business) Opportunities
Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is growing very fast. The need to understand, learn to use and finally adopt of FOSS is essential. However challenges to change and adopt at desktop users level in Malaysia is a very difficult and challenging tasks. I will talk about my experiences on using/spreading FOSS and how I've started and continue to use FOSS until now. I will also share the challenges and issues in adopting FOSS at my department. Lastly I will talk about why FOSS will become important in the Web 2.0 generation and beyond and (business) opportunities of FOSS in Malaysia.
Speaker : Associate Professor Dr. R. Badlishah Ahmad
He obtained B.Eng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Glasgow University in 1994. He continued his M.Sc study in Optical Electronic Engineering at University of Strathclyde and graduated in 1995. He then continue his study at PhD level at the same university and completed in 2000. His research interests are on computer and telecommunication network modelling using discrete event simulators, embedded system based on GNU/Linux for vision and electronic data acqusition system and optical networking.
He has five (4) years teaching experience in Universiti Sains Malaysia and five (6) years in Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). He is currently the Dean at the School of Computer and Communication Enginering and the pioneer in integrating courses using open source software in the engineering degree program. He is also the Head of Embedded Computing Research Cluster. He has been working with GNU/Linux since 2000, when he has to install an open source network simulator called OMNeT++ for his research activities. Since then he has been fascinated by the freely available source code for so many computer applications and embedded system based on GNU/Linux.
The power of the Open Web in Malaysia
Gen Kanai of Mozilla will showcase the latest HTML 5 and related web technologies supported in the newest Firefox release. He will also cover the changes in Firefox development, including the new rapid-release schedule where Mozilla will release a new version of Firefox every 3 months. Gen will close with a discussion about the state of Mozilla in Malaysia and would like feedback from the audience regarding whether there is a need for a Malay-language Firefox.
Speaker : Gen Kanai
Gen Kanai is Director of Asia Business Development for Mozilla, a California-based not-for-profit organization that develops, manages, and freely distributes the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser. Previously Gen was Director of Marketing for Mozilla Japan. Gen has also worked for Digital Garage, Sony Marketing of Japan, Sony Electronics Inc., and Toyota Motor Sales USA. He is a fellow of the U.S.-Japan Foundation 'US-Japan Leadership Program' and a fellow of the Asia Society 'Asia 21 Young Leaders' program. Gen received a B.A. in Geography from Dartmouth College and resides in Tokyo.
Screen Scraping Practices
Screen scraping basic concepts from personal projects hacks to enterprise projects.
How screen scraping kick starts development.
Talks about the tools of the trade. When to apply screen scraping and when to use an api.
Personal and professional screen scraping solutions.
Enterprise screen scraping solutions.
Personal experiences wit screen scraping, business & fundings.
Speaker : Gunesh Raj
Developer/Investor. Co-Founder of Fare.Net/Sprice Pte Ltd (Asia / Global 1st Travel meta search websites).
Programming since 1986, investor in several web start up companies.
Involved with OSS projects, Search Engines and Content Farming.
Also into Arduino, Traveling & Music.
Innovative Aspect of Open Source Network Simulator 2 (NS2)
Network Simulation has been the main research methodology used by researchers working on the core of Internet development. Further, number of credible published research works has been done using network simulation (e.g. those that appear in IEEE/ACM journals and proceedings). One of the most popular open source network simulators is NS2. During the presentation, we will introduce a brief introduction to the NS2, and discuss its practical innovations.
Speaker : Adib M.Monzer Habbal
Adib M.Monzer Habbal is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University Utara Malaysia (UUM); and he is currently attached to the InterNetWorks Research Group at the School of Computing as a researcher. He received his degree in Computer Engineering and post graduate Diploma in Informatics Engineering from Aleppo University, Syria, in 2003 and 2006 respectively. In March 2007, he received the Master’s degree in Information Technology from University Utara Malaysia.
He has been awarded a scholarship from Syrian Government to do his Master studies as a result of his high grade 2003. His professional activity includes being positioned as Technical Program Chair for NetApps2010, a Technical Program Committee of many international conferences (such as NETAPPS 2010, ICCAIE 2010, and ISCI 2011), a technical reviewer for IEEE TENCON 2009 and IEEE WiMob 2010, a speaker for conferences, and a member of IEEE and ISOC. His research interests are in all aspects of Communication Networks: TCP Congestion Control, Network Performance, Wireless and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Network Protocol Engineering, Network Simulation, and Network Applications.
Open Source in Health Care: HUSM 10 Years of Innovative Effort
This presentation describes the real experiences and real challenges that Unit Sistem Maklumat, HUSM Kubang Kerian faced this whole 10 years developing Health Care Information Management system especially in Total Hospital Information System using Open Source tools. Elaborating on how HUSM started from scratch, decision for OSS implementation, countering problems with limited resources and how HUSM successfully manage to overcome them. This development was initially triggered by En Azuddin Ab Rahman, former Ketua Penolong Pengarah of Unit Sistem Maklumat by starting off with patient demographic database system (Lifeline). This initiative thought were driven by problems that arose from the implementation of legacy proprietary system which was very expensive, highly problematic and not met the hospital requirements.
Launching Lifeline initialized other projects which are Laboratory Information System (LIS), Asset Management System (AMS), Inventory Management System (SPIFA and SPIFU), Film Information Reject Analysis (FIRAS), Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) and more than 13 other systems. This innovative effort lowers the total cost of ownership so that millions of ringgit could be spent on public health care services. Furthermore, this has prove that government servants have the capability to develop quality systems using OSS tools which can be an example for others.
Speaker : Ahmad Yusdirman Bin Yusoff
- Programmer (Penolong Pegawai Teknologi Maklumat F29) at Unit Sistem Maklumat Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.
- Currently involved in multiple Medical Research Papers.
Malaysian's experience in Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program which organised by Google for students to write code for various open source software projects. The program has continuously received tremendous response and participation from student worldwide for the past 7 years. Since previous years, only handful students from Malaysia are selected for the program. In year 2010, I have selected for Google Summer of Code 2010 and contributed to The Honeynet Project - an international open source research organization dedicated to improving internet security.
I keen to share my experience with the community, in term of:
- My participation in GSoC 2010
- Contribution to The Honeynet Project - Dionaea honeypot with GSoc 2010
- How to participate and join the program if you are interested
Speaker : Tan Kean Siong
Malaysian and recent graduate from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His interest mainly focused on open source software and computer security, especially in vulnerability assessment, malware analysis and honeypots. In year 2010, he has selected for Google Summer of Code 2010 with The Honeynet Project. He has involved actively in open source Dionaea honeypot project development and contributed several features improvement in term of etwork protocol enhancement and support of third party security tools, e.g NMAP scanner and Metasploit. Besides, He was one of the founder for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Open Source Software Group (UTM-OSS).
Standardizing and Managing Your Infrastructure : A Chef Talk
We go through the considerations made when trying to create and standardize your infrastructure. How do you manage the growing needs without spending too much, how do you run tests for different architecture models, and how do you ensure High Availability by creating private clouds.
Speaker : Brian Ritchie
Brian Ritchie is currently the Systems Administrator at MindValley LLC. He previously served one of Malaysia's largest Financial groups doing Enterprise Project Management, Open Source Strategy, and Research and Development. Further details are available on LinkedIn - http://my.linkedin.com/in/esqbrianritchie
