Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference (MyGOSSCON)
MyGOSSCON is Malaysia's premier Open Source Software (OSS) event, held annually since 2007, as part of the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Programme. This popular event is back this year from 2nd until 3rd November to bring you the latest trends and developments in OSS.
MyGOSSCON has reached beyond the Government sector, successfully engaging and benefiting from organisational support of the businesses, educational institutions and OSS communities to nurture the OSS Ecosystem.
The goal of 2010's conference is to provide a platform for decision makers, academia and IT practitioners to share, exchange and refresh ideas and information on real OSS examples, practical information and strategies. It creates a great opportunity for all participants to possibly shift their paradigms to achieve greater success in OSS development and implementation.
MyGOSSCON 2010 will feature the most spirited OSS competition events:
The first 36-Hour Open Source Web Application Development Contest aims to be Malaysia's longest OSS programming contest held in a confined room and it will be registered into the Malaysia Book of Records. One of the major objectives of this contest is to promote high level open source web application development skills in Malaysia so as to enable local OSS web application development communities to grow and establish themselves for the benefit of the entire OSS ecosystem in Malaysia.
OSS Case Studies Awards provide an incentive to Government agencies to share knowledge on OSS implementation and showcase Malaysian OSS initiatives locally and internationally .
OpenOffice.org Competition will be a contest open to students from secondary schools nationwide. The competition aims to raise OSS awareness amongst students and to encourage them to use OpenOffice.org
Other main highlights of MyGOSSCON 2010:
OSS Showcase Exhibition
Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Social Networking Cocktail
Lightning Talk
and many more!
The Call For Papers is now open! Proposals for conference papers will be accepted until Wednesday, 15th September 2010. As with previous years, papers are open for local and international submissions.
[click here] for further information on the Call for Papers.
Please visit MyGOSSCON 2010 web site for more announcements in the coming weeks and months.
See you at MyGOSSCON 2010.
Theme: “OSS - Innovation for National Transformation”
