Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dear all,

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Umit Project Talk

Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya in collaboration with IT Society, MMU Cyberjaya is organizing a talk on Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2009 and Umit Project by Devtar Singh, a developer in Umit project and mentor in Google Summer of Code 2009 for the Bluetooth Sniffer idea. This talk is greatly beneficial for FIT and FOE students for your Industrial Training and Final Year Projects. Participating in Google Summer of Code will improve your recognition and ability to be accepted in the IT field.

Contents:

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) . http://code.google.com/soc
• Umit Project, an Nmap network scanner frontend and was started with the sponsoring of Google’s Summer of Code 2005

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, first held from May to August 2005, in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free software / open-source coding project during the summer.

About the speaker <Devtar Singh>:
Devtar Singh is one of the first three Malaysians to ever successfully complete the Google Summer of Code program which was covered by the media recently. He was a student under the Umit Project. Umit is an acclaimed network management tool which was featured in The Bourne Ultimatum movie. He worked on the Umit Bluetooth project throughout the program last year. He will be the mentor for this years Google Summer of Code for the Bluetooth Sniffer idea. He is currently working in Accenture and assumes diverse roles in several high profile projects including one in Shell IT.

Cost:
Free. No registration required.

Contact Organizer:
Mohd Syazli Mahmud
syazli7@yahoo.com
+60 17-328 1840

References:

[1] http://www.linuxsig.net/v2/node/547
[2] http://trac.umitproject.org/wiki/UmitBluetooth
[3] http://www.umitproject.org/?active=gsoc&mode=ideas
[4] http://www.umitproject.org/?active=contacts
[5] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html
[6] http://blog.umitproject.org
[7] https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=5dd4fd93-d188-4799-a934-1675214f9262
[8] http://thestar.com.my/youth2/story.asp?file=/2008/11/26/youth2/2632091&sec=youth2
[9] http://www.mmu.edu.my/view_art.php?artid=30

Do continue browsing the discussion in http://groups.google.com/group/osa-cyber/topics

Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya

Google Summer of Code (SoC) March 2009 Talk

I’m planning to have Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2009 Talk to be held next week, conducted by Devtar Singh, an ex-Multimedia University Melaka student to be mentor in the coming GSoC and a core member of LinuxSIG. Devtar shown great interest to talk about Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and the Umit project.

Contents:

• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) . http://code.google.com/soc
• Umit Project, an Nmap network scanner frontend and was started with the sponsoring of Google’s Summer of Code 2005

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual program, first held from May to August 2005, in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free software / open-source coding project during the summer.

About the speaker <Devtar Singh>:
Devtar Singh is one of the first three Malaysians to ever successfully complete the Google Summer of Code program which was covered by the media recently. He was a student under the Umit Project. Umit is an acclaimed network management tool which was featured in The Bourne Ultimatum movie. He worked on the Umit Bluetooth project throughout the program last year. He will be the mentor for this years Google Summer of Code for the Bluetooth Sniffer idea. He is currently working in Accenture and assumes diverse roles in several high profile projects including one in Shell IT.

Project references:

http://trac.umitproject.org/wiki/UmitBluetooth
http://www.umitproject.org/?active=gsoc&mode=ideas
http://www.umitproject.org/?active=contacts
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html
http://blog.umitproject.org

References:

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=5dd4fd93-d188-4799-a934-1675214f9262
http://thestar.com.my/youth2/story.asp?file=/2008/11/26/youth2/2632091&sec=youth2
http://www.mmu.edu.my/view_art.php?artid=30

Do continue browsing the discussion in http://groups.google.com/group/osa-cyber/topics

Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya

Hi all, this is a post to send out a headsup to all that we at OSA Cyber are interested to start having regular meetups in Cyberjaya every month starting this December in the MMU Cyberjaya campus.

We have decided to start this for the slightly tech savvier Cyberjaya community and its surrounding areas.

Time, date and speakers have not been finalised yet though, but we will update this site or the google groups as soon as we do.

In the meantime, leave a comment, register your interest here, or join the Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya google groups to also get more updates.

Hi ppl, foss.my was just awesome. Saw a couple of peeps from MMU there.

Anyway, see u guys this Friday as we’re going to meet up. If you’re interested in hearing updates on foss.my and developing the Open Source community in Cyberjaya, do join us if possible this friday 8PM in MMU Cyberjaya. Do msg me (y! tulipsoss ) on ym, or drop me ring if you’re coming.

If you are not able to do so

Middle East Pay in Asia?

Too good to be true?

Not according to Scanit!

Scanit, the leading IT security company in the Middle East has announced that it is now heavily recruiting for its new operations in Malaysia. When asked what the key driving factors were for making this move, CEO David Michaux said that he was ‘chasing the talent where ever he could find it, and as we found a good technical pool in Asia, so this is our next step’.

Scanit who are also the Gold sponsors of HITB in September, launched a recruitment site earlier this year focused at attempting to bring fresh technical talent to the Middle East market, ‘we have over 50 IT security jobs currently posted from clients all over the Gulf region’ said David ‘our clients need hands on people who can help to really secure their infrastructures’ he continued.

Not looking for qualifications or certifications, the Scanit team will be bringing a number of their recruitment customers, including some of the major banks and telecom operators from the Middle East, to perform direct interviews with interested candidates at the upcoming HITB event. ‘We will performing live interviews, both technical and personal, and hope to be able to help our customers fill some of their vacancies directly at the event’.

When asked if Scanit and their customers were looking at Asia simply to find cheaper labour, David quickly replied that ‘Scanit has a uniform payment structure irrespective of nationality or geographic location, and I believe that if you are among the best, you should be paid the same as your counterparts’. Salaries in the Middle East range from approximately 3,500USD per month to over 8,000USD, depending on your skill level and experience. ‘Scanit has the reputation of being the best in the security consultancy market in the Middle East, and I will make sure we keep that reputation when we move into Malaysia’.

Candidates who are interested in signing up for the upcoming recruitment drive can register their interest by subscribing to the recruitment portal at http://hr.scanit.net, the Scanit team have promised to give everyone a fair chance.

*****
*** HITBSecConf 2007
*** 3rd – 6th September
*** The Hilton KL Sentral

MMU CITS:

Dear All

We have upgraded the VPN server for MMU Cyberjaya campus. As such, all MMU Cyberjaya VPN users will need to install new VPN client software to connect to the campus network.

For more details, please go to http://access.mmu.edu.my/vpnconnect.php

Thank you.

Rgds
CITS

MMU Bulletin Board:
http://bulletin.mmu.edu.my/v3/view/bulletin_main.mmu?s=43936&by=today

For the past 3 years since 2005, Google has been supporting Open Source projects in the form of the Summer Of Code.

==
What is Google Summer of Code?=
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,000 students with over 100 open source projects, to create hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its third year, following on from a very successful 2006.

While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, GSoCers come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds,from computational biology to mining engineering. Many past participants had never participated in an open-source project before GSoC;others used the GSoC stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer.

Several 2005 students went on to become mentors in 2006.

Personally, I had a friend from MMU who successfully apllied and participated in SoC both in 2005 and 2006. Do take note that each successful completed project will be rewarded with a stipend of USD$4500.

Student Applications are open now and will be closing by March 24th. Please take note in this case Open Source covers everything from Linux, to Open Source Website Frameworks, Content Management Systems, Graphic software and lots others not mentioned here. So if you are interested, do take a look at http://code.google.com/soc/ as soon as possible.

Important timelines of the project can be seen at http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60325&topic=10729 .

=Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya=
http://groups.google.com/group/osa-cyber/

Sam Ng

Correction: It’s freenode.net not .org

There is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel created under the Freenode server, irc.freenode.net and the channel name is #linuxsig. Linux Special Interest Group (LinuxSIG) is a special interest group of Linux at Multimedia University Melaka Campus.

IRC details:
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #linuxsig

There’s a HOWTO guide posted in the mailing on how to connect to the channel.

Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya will be using this IRC channel to combine LinuxSIG and OSA-Cyber together.

Sources:
http://www.gnu.org
http://www.fsf.org
http://www.opensource.org

Docs:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy
http://www.opensource.org/docs

Free software is now in the term of liberty: “”Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price”, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

In 1998, a part of the free software community splintered off and began campaigning in the name of “open source.” The term was originally proposed to avoid a possible misunderstanding of the term “free software,” but it soon became associated with philosophical views quite different from those of the free software movement., http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, because only free software respects the users’ freedom.

My approach:

is to Free Software which is complies to the 4 principles of Free Software, the freedom to run the program for any purpose, the freedom to study how the program works and adapt it to your needs, the freedom to redistribute copies so u can help your neighbor, the freedom to improve the program and release ur improvements to the public so that the whole community benefits. Free Software that can be paid to get the software.

Open Source Aliiance Cyberjaya under my maintenance is approach to Free Software. Open Source definition is ambiguous to this group but will be considered since it’s based on Debian Free Software Guidelines.

- Mohd Syazli Mahmud

Venue: Mr. Ian Tan’s office, FIT BR 4008, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya
Date: 5th March 2007 (Monday)

Attendees:

• Mr. Ian Tan <ian(a)mmu.edu.my>
• Mohd Syazli Mahmud <syazli7(a)yahoo.com>

Minutes

4:00 pm: – Mr. Ian confirmed to me that Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya to handle the LAMP workshop.
- ITS committee members leaving the room.

4:02 pm: – Chat on the creation of Open Source Alliance name.
- Query on the suitable lab for the shell scripting class.
- Clarified that I need to see Ng Kok Tian to check on the Linux availability in the labs.
- Shell scripting does not need high specs.
- and book the lab with Ng Kok Tian or Nor Shehah.

- Explanation on the time slot allocated for the LAMP workshop which is 21st, 22nd and 29th of March 2007.
- I suggested that the LAMP workshop to be 2 sessions. Permission approved

- Introduction on Load Balancing class canceled due to thoughts on not enough audience and scope is too diverse.

- Query on creative commons talk.
- Confirmed that he will check on Dr. Ewe regarding the MDeC’s Creative Commons awareness talk.

- Chat that one of the Linux Computing Labs will be opened to public so that students won’t have to check which lab is unoccupied to use the computer facility.
- The lab will be using Linux distribution and open source softwares. I thought like a cyber cafe.
- Chat that he is currently in contact with Novell Malaysia to sponsor software for a lab and the previous Linux Computing lab shall be sponsored by Novell.
- Next academic year, workshops on open source software usage such as openoffice will be handled by Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya every month to increase usability experience in students in using open source softwares.

- The lab to used shall be one of the Linux Computing labs.

4:20 pm: – Meeting ajourned. I leave the room.

6:05 pm: – I went to see Mr. Ian again at Linux Computing Lab 1 to ask whether we can make the LAMP workshop to be in 1 session of 2 hours.
- Permission approved.
- Lab to used shall be utilizing Fedora Core 5 or 6.