[intl-discuss] Minutes from meeting from organisations marketing into Asia/Pacific

[Venka]

Hi Frans,

Nice to know about your work in Indonesia. The need for
a global program for testing and certification in FOSS4G
technologies is quite crucial and urgent. The issue of
training and certification has been discussed before
in OSGeo but nothing concrete has emerged as yet.

It would be worth exploring possibilities for online
training in Asia undersome organizational framework.
I know of some educational institutions in Asia who would
be interested in such a framework. Could you give more
details about your current program in Indonesia.

Best regards

Venka

Frans Thamura wrote:
> my work here, to make sure the gap between vocational high school and
> industry , is getting less and less
>
> here, in indonesia we produce 7 million high school graduate, and 50%
> cannot work.. and only 10% can go to university, but because the
> university program getting worst here, mostly 40% of the undergradute
> cannot work.
>
> goverment here also is not as good as we know, but i got info, all
> goverment all smiliar world wide ;)
>
> so my job right now to train people mostly in high school, make a
> curriculum for them, and i discussed this idea with Geoff Zeiss last
> september in San Fransisco @ Oracle OpenWorld, we met there, mostly
> every year ;) hopefully next september
>
> now our program is more bigger, i put Java, PHP, and Linux and we want
> GIS there, Geoff donate the Map Guide training, and we will try to
> make mapServer available, but we are very busy we have several problem
> here.
>
> 1. the goverment work slow amazingly, and mostly the work now become
> our work, from curriculu, online exam, and make sure the student work
> after graduate, and also internship here, and the teacher also have
> problem.
>
> 2. we need global program that support or a global program that can be
> distrubte here, i am glad if OSGeo also have this program for Asia :)
> or developemnt country, right now i try to promote Map Guide because
> we have :"Autodesk" brand and the most complete one
>
>
> any comment for this program?
>