MYOSS informal meetup
Last week it was hanging out at Nalin’s (he threw a great party) with lots of Fedora people, and one week later it was hanging out with the MYOSS people. Of noteworthy mention was NSH for a short while, and mainly Khairil, David Hakken & wife, Ow Mun Heng, Ditesh, Jaya, Prabu and Leon. Low Kian Seong came a little later, but stayed till the very end!
Lots to talk about, got a little history of how Bytecraft started and is being run (its most interesting), how Ditesh wants to expand and enjoy life (we told him to be a cool OSS maintainer :P), and the usual perils faced in Malaysia. Interesting to note why most vendors in Malaysia are becoming Novell Authorised Partners and while they still keep their RH status, they’re generally ditching it or not bothering with it because marketing and margins suck; ditto with support it seems. Malaysian’s are famous for the pyramid model of doing business… I pushed my usual “its good to build a model on Ubuntu and Fedora” as opposed to just wanting to sell SLES, which went down semi-well, but its a lot of work I’d guess. The other thing was “OSS companies” modifying software but keeping it in-house - never submitting patches upstream. No gains there for them, but it happens. Worthwhile for anyone to have shown up, though the best talk we had was the 2 hours standing around Ditesh’s car after the dinner place kicked us out at closing time ;-)