{"id":919,"date":"2008-08-05T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T04:49:14","slug":"malaysian-government-releases-first-open-source-software-package-mymeeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/05\/malaysian-government-releases-first-open-source-software-package-mymeeting","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Government releases first Open Source software package &#8211; MyMeeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks a big day in the history of the Malaysian Government &#8211; they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.harisfazillah.info\/2008\/08\/mymeeting-20-rc1-release.html\">released<\/a> their first fully open source software package, <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.oscc.org.my\/solution-areas\/application\/mymeeting\">MyMeeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poking around their <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.oscc.org.my\/mymeeting\/browser\">Trac<\/a> installation, they use PHP and MySQL 5 (5.0.51a from Ubuntu, even!). Of course their install documentation suggests a lot of Windows usage, but this is a step in the right direction. <\/p>\n<p>Give it a twirl. Report bugs. How many more governments out there are writing and releasing open source software packages? 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