Malaysian FOSS Contributors
by Ditesh Kumar — last modified 2006-03-22 03:53 AM
This is a list of FOSS projects and FOSS contributors whereby the principal developers are Malaysians or where substantial code and community contributions have come from Malaysians. All projects listed below are available for download and fully meet the FSF and OSI definition of FOSS copyright licenses. In addition, there is also a list of active community members of the IRC channel, #myoss on irc.freenode.net.
Projects
* ADOdb
License
Dual licensed, BSD and LGPL
Summary
ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP. It currently supports an amazing number of databases and is among the most popular database abstraction library available for the PHP platform.
* Aria ERP
License
GPL
Summary
ARIA development began in the fall of 2002 due to a growing dissatisfaction with the development cycle of NOLA. ARIA is based off NOLA from Noguska and you can easily switch from NOLA to ARIA without any change in the database, as they are from the same source code. Since ARIA currently enjoys an almost nightly development track, it has far fewer bugs.
* C# Object Persistent Framework
License
LGPL
Summary
The C# Object Persistent Framework (csopf) is a project which has a goal of making development of business software as rapid and as maintainable as possible. The philosophy is to create a framework which is very developer oriented, to create clean, obvious and readable code. It also lets the developer develop software, with database administration handled automatically.
* gfourcc
License
GPL
Summary
Identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allow the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in Windows). Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file. A Linux clone of AviC fourcc changer tool.
* GUI ACL Manager
License
GPL
Summary
The GUI ACL Manager tool provides a GUI interface to help in the management of Access Control Lists for files. It was designed to be used as a script from within Nautilus but can also be independently from the command line by passing it a filename. It was built using pygtk.
* KDE Localization to Malay
License
Non applicable
Summary
KDE is one of the premier FOSS desktops. There is an active effort to localize the KDE desktop to the Malay language.
* Krazhbox floppy linux
License
GPL
Summary
KrazhBoX is a small-sized GNU/Linux distribution targeted for users who need a quick and small rescue disk for their GNU/Linux (and possibly other) operating system. KrazhBoX can also be use to prepare a computer for operating system installations like partitioning hard disk, formatting them with new a filesystem, activating the boot active partition and many more! KrazhBoX supports common filesystem for GNU/Linux such as ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and Minix as well as other filesystem (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and ISO9660).
* Lazy Installer
License
GPL
Summary
Lazy Installer provides a comprehensive installation script for qmail and relevant add-ons. The script installs qmail with patches for security and functionality, vpopmail, IMAP, ezml, qmailadmin, vqadmin tools as well as MySQL backend support.
* m0n0wall
License
BSD
Summary
m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall, router, traffic shaper (QoS), captive portal and VPN concentrator software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial boxes (including the ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software). m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent. m0n0wall is probably the first UNIX system that has its boot-time configuration done with PHP, rather than the usual shell scripts, and that has the entire system configuration stored in XML format.
* Mimos Live CD
License
Not applicable
Summary
MIMOS Open Source Group is releasing Linux Live CD based on Knoppix with Bahasa Melayu user interface. The group has worked with Kedidi Emas Project to come up with a localized Bahasa Melayu KDE Desktop.
* minicrc
License
zlib/libpng License
Summary
A command-line-interface application that produce various crc checksums (crc32,crc16,crc-ccitt,bzip2 crc) on files and validates them. Useful for fast file verification but not validation against intentional tempering.
* My Knoppix
License
GPL
Summary
My Knoppix Digital Home Edition aims to be a smart and centerised OS that can implement at home. Image a Plasma TV or big LCD screen that connect to a server and is able to record and play DVD's from the server and surf the Internet from the big screen. My Knoppix supports English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Malay/Indonesian.
* OpenOffice.org - Bahasa Melayu Spell Checker
License
Not applicable
Summary
The Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language) Spell Checker is targeted for users who need to spell check BM words in their documents in OpenOffice. These users can be government officers, BM writers, publishers, digital divide community and/or anybody who needs spell checker to spell check BM words.
* PicoBSD
License
BSD
Summary
PicoBSD is a one floppy version of FreeBSD, which in its different variations allows you to have secure dialup access, small diskless router or even a dial-in server. And all this on only one standard 1.44MB floppy. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM (no HDD required!).
* The Electronic Human Resource Management System (e-HRMS)
License
GPL
Summary
The e-HRMS is a web based HR management system. Currently it supports an extensive employee database, full featured electronic leave system, workflow driven document circulation system, tabular and graphical reporting and multi user system and role based access.
* Traymoon
License
GPL
Summary
TrayMoon is a system tray application that display the moon phases and the Hijri dates. It is a fully open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
* WineCD
License
LGPL
Summary
WineCD is a system-tray application that helps to eject and close cdrom/dvdrom tray programmatically.
People (in alphabetical order)
* Adli Wahid - FOSS evangelism, code contributions and member of the Bandar Baru Bangi OSS group
* Aizat Faiz - MyOSS meetup group organizer
* Ang Tun Chek - Developer of MyKnoppix Live CD
* Ariff Abdullah - FreeBSD src (sound) committer.
* Bakthiar Hamid - Zope documentation, kebasdata product.
* Colin Charles - OpenOffice.org and The Fedora Project evangelism as well as code contributions. Manager of #myoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and Planet MyOSS.
* Dinesh Nair - FOSS evangelism, code contributions and numerous others.
* Dr. Nah Soo Hoe - FOSS evangelism, maintainor of MyOSS mailing list and numerous others.
* Fu Yi Chin - Ex-organizer of MyOSS meetup group
* Hasbullah bin Pit - Localization and translation efforts for Mozilla, Fedora Core/Red Hat, GNOME
* Jason Lim - Ex-organizer of MyOSS meetup group
* Jaya Kumar - Linux framebuffer driver for Arc LCD board, Linux ALSA cs5535 audio driver, Xorg dmc9000 input driver, Linux cs5335 IDE DMA driver
* Khairil Yusof - FOSS evangelism and code contributions.
* Lau Kai Jern - Lazy Installer contributor and security research.
* Lee Chin Sheng - Unofficial OpenBSD ports and documentation efforts
* Lee Nan Phin - MNCC OSS SIG chairperson and numerous others.
* Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail - Author of Krazhbox floppy linux, gfourcc, TrayMoon, WineCD, minicrc.
* Mohammad Najmi bin Ahmad Zabidi - KDE and GNU localization to the Malay language
* Nur Hussein - EPCKPT porting and kernel patchset, Slackware packages and others.
* Ow Mun Heng - MyOSS Magazine editor
* Yoon-Kit Yong - Author of C# Object Persistent Framework
#MyOSS-ers (in alphabetical order)
This is a list of regulars on the #myoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net
* alphaque (Dinesh Nair)
* aizatto (Aizat Faiz)
* dcmwai
* ditesh/ditesh|cassini (Ditesh Kumar)
* drbyte/bytee (Colin Charles)
* El-Lotso (Ow Mun Heng)
* filex/jlchannel (Jason Lim)
* geekOOL (Lee Chin Seng)
* jayakumar/flatronf700B (Jaya Kumar)
* kaeru (Khairil Yusof)
* kenw (Kenneth Wong)
* kenmin (Ang Kian Meng)
* linuxlah (Mohd Jeffri)
* mypapit (Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail)
* ObiWanKenobi (Nur Hussein)
* prabu (Prabu)
* rids (Faizal)
* takizo (Paul Ooi)
* xwings (Lau Kai Jern)
* yky (Yoon Kit Yong)
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11-05-2007, 12:43 AM
Contributions can range from documentation, marketing/promotion to to project management to application design/development to testing/maintenance to training.
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