Re: Halo - high tech ecosystem
arie
I just created ID Integrator group to accommodate once in a while
high-tech ecosystem in Indonesia that often comes up between us, techie
people, business people, investors, entrepreneurial people, and many
other various people that concern of high-tech ecosystem in Indonesia.
I do concern of any open source technologies in any countries, education
in any dimensions, anything that can make people useful to their
surrounding environments, and infrastructure to support goods in any
countries.
Let's unite and be powerful!
hendro wijaya, Blindoptimists wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> Thanks for the email.
>
> Well, i am not so much interested to unite at that detail level.
> I am more interested in promoting high-tech entrepreneurship in the
> country.
> Someone might not know how to code, but maybe is a brilliant business
> person or have money to invest or brilliant marketers (example: Steve
> Jobs met Steve Wozniak).
>
> I believe you guys have done an incredible jobs with such a detail group
> (PHP, Ruby, Python or .NET groups). And, there is no point for me to try
> re-invent the wheel.
>
> I do realize though that i might not know what i am talking about when
> it comes to the country's internal community (since i haven't visited
> Jakarta for the past 15 years and i spent the last 6 years of my life
> abroad).
> That's why i approached you guys (plus Kopral's team and few ITB's
> students) to see what we can do if we start join forces.
>
> I am basically trying to answer the question, "Does Indonesia have
> environment that support the birth of next global high-tech company?".
> As far as i am aware, there is no global high-tech company from our
> country yet (like China's Alibaba or India's TCS).
> I personally believe Indonesia got a lot of smart people. We just need
> to build an environment that support each other.
> Correct me if i am wrong. =)
>
> Hendro Wijaya
> Co-founder of Blindoptimists
> http://www.blindoptimists.com
>
> ph: +61 415 750 087
> Twitter, FriendFeed: hwijaya
>
>
>
> Steven Haryanto wrote:
>> hendro wijaya, Blindoptimists wrote:
>>> Halo Mas Arie dan Mas Steven,
>>>
>>> Apa kabar?
>>>
>>> Pake English saja ya, soalnya, saya grow up di Medan dan bahasa
>>> Indonesia saya rada2 terlalu formal untuk ukuran email. =)
>>>
>>> The reason i am emailing you guys is because from what i can see, you
>>> two are the leaders in the Indonesian community. Ruby community at
>>> the very least.
>>> I think you have much better understanding of the situation than me.
>>>
>>> I am concerning about the "high-tech ecosystem" in Indonesia. Do we
>>> have any there?
>>> People that are either interested in building global high-tech
>>> company or at least love to play around with high-tech (not only
>>> specific to Ruby, PHP or .NET)
>>> How about people from ITB, UGM and ITS? There must be a lot of smart
>>> nerds there, isn't it? Udah ada community yang mengabungkan mereka
>>> semua?
>>
>> hi hendro,
>>
>> thanks for the email. your topic comes up from time to time. it seems
>> that some people always want to "unite them all", for some reason. it
>> usually doesn't work :) i don't see the need or feel inclined too either.
>>
>> but you are welcome to discuss them on some of the mailing lists i
>> moderate, like id-php, id-perl, etc.
>>
>> as for the ruby-related stuff, i'll leave them to arie.
>>
>> regards,
>> steven
>
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arie
Ashura
are involved with high-tech. Another sign of my ignorance. =)
For some people that are just in the thread (seperti Mas Gerry dan
yang lain), maybe the post that i wrote few days ago might help
explain my main concern and what i wish we can do.
http://blog.blindoptimists.com/2009/07/06/silicon-islands-first-step-in-growing-indonesia-high-tech-ecosystem/
Example: currently, in Sydney, we have weekly events (drinks every
friday among tech-entrepreneurs - anyone can come and go) to promote
high-tech entrepreneurship but, as far as i am aware, we haven't got
something like that in Indonesia.
Another good one, BootUpCamp is running now in Sydney for the next 2
weeks. http://www.bootupcamp.com/
Basically, there are a lot of events that are being done here to help
support the growth of tech industry. http://www.startup-australia.org/start
Realistically speaking, i personally won't be able to attend such a
weekly event since i am not living in the country. But, for some big
events (BarCamp or BootUpCamp), i should be able to participate and
hopefully can contribute something back.
Btw, i have joined the Google Groups.
> http://groups.google.com/group/id-integrator/browse_thread/thread/2e6...