By U Thein Oo

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OSS In Myanmar

• By U Thein Oo
• President, Myanmar Computer Federation

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Policy on OSS and Development Strategy

• No specific official policy and strategy on OSS
• Plan Myanmar Language Processing system in OSS

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OSS Awareness
By Policy Makers Aware that OSS can be a
counter balance to Microsoft but not
yet committed. By Developers Not
convince with the benefit and business models By
Educationists Aware that IT engineers need to
know inside
details of the source code of OS and DE. By
Users Not aware that there is OSS
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Human Resource Development and OSS

• No specific policy or strategy for OSS related
  ICT HRD
• Universities and Colleges start having OSS
  courses
• Some Private training schools gives training on
  OSS
• MCSA is giving LINUX Training courses
• SIG on Linux is conducting regular workshops

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OSS Applications

• 90 of the Servers in all ISPs(2) are OSS.
• A few applications in OSS introduced

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OSS in ICT Industry

• Only a very few ICT companies doing development
  in OSS
• Negligible in Local Software market
• Shortage of OSS Engineers
• Users have no preference on OSS

No Change
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Focus OSS Development Activity Myanmar Language
Implementation
Basic Language Support
27.10.200330.10.2003
31.10.200328.11.2003
10.12.20038.1.2004
23.12.200331.8.2004
May 2004 December 2004
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Focus OSS Development Activity Myanmar Language
Implementation
Advance Support Level 1
19.1.2004 1.3.2005
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Focus OSS Development Activity Myanmar Language
Implementation
Advance Support Level 2
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Focus OSS Development Activity Myanmar Language
Implementation
Advance Support Level 3
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Conclusion

• Need to improve Cooperation with OSS community

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Thank You