MOSS Weekly Meeting - 2010/10/30

[Akbar Asif]

MOSS Weekly Meeting

# 2010/10/30 

Date: 30.10.2010

Time: 21:00

Duration: 3 Hours

Venu: Trends

Attendance

1. Mohamed Malik
2. Mohamed Vishah
3. Nail Abdulrahman
4. Yousuf Abdulla Shunan
5. Ahmed Sunil
6. Adam Fathuhy
7. Athuhar Mohamed
8. Akbar Asif

Agenda

1. NCIT buying an expensive database cloud system from Oracle

Minutes

1. As we see the move for an expensive database cloud is a waste of money and time. Thus it was decided to write to media and relevant authorities and alert them on the possible mistakes in this move. It was decided to send a letter to the president's office and contact Haveeru for facilitating media exposure. Mohamed Malik volunteered for leading the tasks.
2. Regarding the MOSS monthly magazine, it was raised concern over members' negligence to society related tasks. MOSS as a society to be more lively and has to show members' initiative on the matter.
Mr Adam Fathuhy expressed his concern over the way meetings were currently held and proposed a formal approach to conducting weekly meetings.
From the discussion on reforming weekly meetings, it was agreed to carryout formal paper work on membership, meeting agenda, minutes of the meetings and attendance. Enforcing rules on weekly meetings was also proposed.
Mr Akbar Asif volunteered for the task of writing and filing of minutes.
Discussion on running a television show in order to promote and enhance awareness on open source software.

[Hussain Nashid]

Don't they (NCIT) have a board or an executive committee that you can raise this issue with?

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[V Shah]

Yes, they have and we have to raise the issue with them as well as others concerned. We should also not shy away from informing the public about previous as well as current wasteful expenditures buying/developing proprietary software, and explain our view of cost-effective and reliable apt solutions.

[V Shah]

During the weekly meeting we have noted down pointers which will be included in the letters submitted to the concerned parties. Malik is writing the letter.

[chopey]

Did we (MOSS) try to find out the justification behind this move by
NCIT. I am sure they are aware of other alternative solutions but why
this move?

I guess one of the reasons behind not going for OSS is the support
factor. I feel one of the major issues that need to be addressed is
the lack of trust by the government and other enterprises towards the
IT industry and the individuals who are involved. I feel this is one
key point that needs to be addressed and confronted with. There is
this general thinking and saying that "IT guys are lazy and can't be
depended on". They (NICT and gov) will always have been talking this
excuse when we talk about FLOSS. I maybe wrong here, but this is my
view.

On Nov 1, 2:25 pm, Akbar Asif <axi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *MOSS Weekly Meeting*
> **# 2010/10/30

>
> Date: 30.10.2010
> Time: 21:00
> Duration: 3 Hours
> Venu: Trends
>

> *Attendance*
>
>    1. Mohamed Malik
>    2. Mohamed Vishah
>    3. Nail Abdulrahman
>    4. Yousuf Abdulla Shunan
>    5. Ahmed Sunil
>    6. Adam Fathuhy
>    7. Athuhar Mohamed
>    8. Akbar Asif
>
> *Agenda*
>
>    1. NCIT buying an expensive database cloud system from Oracle
>
> *Minutes*
>
>    1. As we see the move for an expensive database cloud is a waste of money

>    and time. Thus it was decided to write to media and relevant authorities
>    and alert them on the possible mistakes in this move. It was decided to send
>    a letter to the president's office and contact Haveeru for facilitating
>    media exposure. Mohamed Malik volunteered for leading the tasks.

>    2. Regarding the MOSS monthly magazine, it was raised concern over

>    members' negligence to society related tasks. MOSS as a society to be more
>    lively and has to show members' initiative on the matter.

>    3. Mr Adam Fathuhy expressed his concern over the way meetings were

>    currently held and proposed a formal approach to conducting weekly meetings.

>    4. From the discussion on reforming weekly meetings, it was agreed to

>    carryout formal paper work on membership, meeting agenda, minutes of the
>    meetings and attendance. Enforcing rules on weekly meetings was also
>    proposed.

>    5. Mr Akbar Asif volunteered for the task of writing and filing of
>    minutes.
>    6. Discussion on running a television show in order to promote and