{"id":33,"date":"2004-02-09T09:03:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=33"},"modified":"2004-02-09T09:03:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:03:52","slug":"fossap-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/09\/fossap-day-1","title":{"rendered":"FOSSAP Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iosn.net\/fossap\/\">FOSSAP Consultations<\/a> Day One. Quite cool and beneficial. Arrived about ten minutes late, kind of surprised a few folk since I was back, but yeah, good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>NSH did his usual intro to FOSS, which was cool, and then Harish Pillay (from Singapore) gave a talk about FOSS Policies in the Asia Pacific. Interesting outcome from that, got to post notes soon; he skipped covering Singapore &#038; Malaysia though. Ken Wong talked about FOSS in Government, and this was akin to me going to the OCG mini-conf at linux.conf.au. More interesting outcomes, and I&#8217;ve got a new idea. Now its time to research and work myself off to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mncc.com.my\/\">MNCC<\/a> is in deficit, and guess where funds are being funnelled out from? The OSSIG OSS-101 funds. Rocking. (this is bad).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, caught this cool Christina Ricci movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0265591\/\">Pumpkin<\/a> before sleeping last night. And on the plane, a true story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0250371\/\">The Other Side of  Heaven<\/a>. 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Quite cool and beneficial. Arrived about ten minutes late, kind of surprised a few folk since I was back, but yeah, good stuff. NSH did his usual intro to FOSS, which was cool, and then Harish Pillay (from Singapore) gave a talk about FOSS Policies in the Asia Pacific. Interesting outcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20FOSSAP%20Day%201&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F02%2F09%2Ffossap-day-1&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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