Free Software Work

This is an incomplete list of contributions to Free Software. If you have any questions or wish to discuss the writings, shoot me an email.

Last updated: 23rd December 2007

Talks

"The Malaysian Open Source Community", presented at AsiaOSS 2006
“OpenOffice.org Programmatic Document Templating”, presented at Linux Conference Australia 2005, OpenOffice Miniconf
“The LAMP Strategy”, as an invited speaker for the Novell Open Source Developers conference
“FOSS Application Development”, given at University Malaya as an invited speaker from the Malaysian National Computer Confederation
“An Introduction to OpenOffice”, as an invited speaker for the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) computer science faculty
“Asterisk: An Open Source PBX System”, given to Malaysian Open Source group and at IIUM as an invited speaker
“Compilers: Theory and Implementation”, given to Malaysian Open Source group
“LAMP Workshop”, as an invited Novell workshop facilitator

Free Software Contributions

“Electronic Human Resource Management System” - licensed under the GPL and winner of the Malaysian Open Source Award 2005
Patches to webERP
FreeBSD contributor (pecl-phar, pecl-bbcode, pecl-shape, pecl-doublemetaphone, pecl-params, astmanproxy, couchdb, ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools)
clib (Command Line Web Blogger)
Fedora couchdb RPM (spec file)

Community Involvement

Main organizer of Richard M. Stallman's visit to Malaysia. He presented a seminar on “Software Freedom and and Danger of Software Patents” at University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and University Sains Malaysia, Penang
Organizer of regular community oriented LPIC examination sessions
Team member of 2004 and 2007 Malaysian Software Freedom Day
Team member of the 2006 PIKOM FOSS booth
Maintainer of the Malaysian FOSS contributors list
Rapporteur at AsiaOSS 2006

Writings in the area of Free Software and Open Standards