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Kompas May 24th, Page 16

VoIP Rakyat did something extraordinary to me again. This time, it put me into 1 of the mainstream newspaper in Indonesia, Kompas. You can read a glance of me and me with VoIP Rakyat in page 16 Kompas May 24th, 2007.

This time, again, my status of being unfinished in university follows me. It seems for some people, it has been probably the most interesting part of being me related to my activities 🙂 Well I hope not.

A bit words I wanna add, or hopes that somebody will notice it, is that learning is everything, degree is important, for me things were different.

Note: This is the article.

IP-PBX Workshop with MNCC

MNCC is abbreviation of Malaysian National Computer Confederation. They are hooked-up with governments to conduct trainings on IT, and probably more. Monday, 7 May 2007, they asked me to be the speaker on their IP-PBX workshop. So I did.

The workshop titled “IP-PBX In A Day”, conducted at Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Most of the participants were government’s officials. There were also from Thailand and Singapore.

I was very exciting to be given that opportunity. And I was happy at the end of workshop they were managed to understand I would say more than half of the material.

Jendela Dunia

Gara-gara VoIP Rakyat dan Open Source, hari Senin lalu saya di-interview dan diambil gambarnya untuk acara “Jendela Dunia” di MetroTV. Kata mereka (orang produksi acara) akan ditampilkan di MetroTV pada acara “Jendela Dunia” hari Sabtu besok 28 April 2007 pukul 11.30 – 12.00 siang.

Pertama e-Lifestyle, sekarang Jendela Dunia 😉

Dari 2 jam pengambilan film katanya hanya 8 menit yang diambil, itu sudah termasuk saya ngajar, meeting dengan tim dan 2 rekan saya, Sindu Irawan dan Endy Muhardin, memberi komentar tentang saya dan Open Source.

Rasa-rasanya sih saya belum cukup pantas untuk diangkat profil nya, apalagi dalam dunia Open Source, tapi seseorang pastinya telah merekomendasikan saya pada mereka, maka jadilah 🙂

When I Label My Self as a User

One of the thing that opensource developers should know about is that most users will always ripp-off your hard work, downsizes your dedications, never shown gratitude and never giving back.

Na those aren’t always the truth aren’t they 🙂

When I said ‘most users’, it also means that some of users, a little part of the sociaty, are welcoming you with joyful feelings, give you what you deserved. Shown respect and gratitude, asking with manners, politely writing you comments, thoughtfully (hopes this word exists :p) suggests and recommends.

Na those aren’t always what you need aren’t they 🙂

Users should not be ‘lusers’ as decribed by Eric Steven Raymond and opensource developers should not be leader of an ancient tribes that needed respects and ask for sacrifice every full moon. Users on an opensource software development are equaly important as developers, without them there is no such word as ‘contribution’ exists.

When you’re a user, remember that you can’t be ignorance because whatever comes from you, users, are defining the course of developments. Fyi, turn right and left aren’t entirely up to developers, really. So when you know you’re that important, you should understand that you ought to have respect for your self. You are part of the history makings so behave like one.

Am I not a man with feelings ? Can I just ask ‘how’ when I can live with ‘where’ ? Should I take without giving back ? Again, am I not a man with feelings ??

Have a word with your ego, decide wether you want tobe a respected part of a history making or be nothing but a time sink 😉

Open Source 2007

Beberapa aplikasi open source yang bakal gw rampungin sampe stable release pertama udah ada dalam list pekerjaan gw sepanjang 2007 ini. 3 bulan pertama 2007 harus sudah rilis versi2 RC nya, up to 6 bulan pertama 2007 harus sudah rilis versi stabil nya. Sisa waktu 2007 akan digunakan untuk memantau ke-stabilan aplikasi-aplikasi itu, bug fixing.

Aplikasi-aplikasi yang gw maksud adalah:
– PlayBilling 1.2 (http://playbilling.sourceforge.net)
– PlaySMS 0.8 (http://playsms.sourceforge.net)
– PlayVoIP 0.1 (http://playvoip.sourceforge.net)

Selain aplikasi diatas, gw juga punya utakatik yang keliatannya bakal gw rilis GPL, aplikasi bandwidth management yang rule nya di-manage via web. Yang simple2 ajah, tapi gw yakin berguna buat orang banyak, terutama ngegampangin admin2 RT/RW net dan warnet dalam memanfaatkan bandwidth semaksimal mungkin.

Disamping aplikasi, layanan2pun kudu ditingkatkan kualitasnya. Jangan mentang2 murah, kualitas murahan. Layanan-layanan yang sudah ada dalam roadmap gw 2007 adalah:
– KamusTI (http://www.kamusti.web.id)
– Uji Kompetensi Online (http://www.sertifikat.net)
– VoIP Rakyat (http://www.voiprakyat.or.id)

bonus:
Taun 2007 kudu lahir VoIP Rakyat Messenger yang super keren, bisa narik orang banyak untuk join VoIP Rakyat dan berpaling dari memory-resource-eater + international-bandwidth-dependency the-one-and-only .. .. .. Yahoo! Messenger.

Tahun ini adalah taun gw untuk berkreasi. Make your self heard !

Cita-cita kudu setinggi langit, kalo mimpi aja ga nyampe apalagi kenyataan 😉

Semangat !

Just plain nice and simple

Epilogue

“What’s fundamentally wrong is that nobody ever had any taste when they did it. Microsoft has been very much into making the user interface look good, but internally it’s just a complete mess. And even people who program for Microsoft and who have had years of experience, just don’t know how it works internally. Worse, nobody dares change it. Nobody dares to fix bugs because it’s such a mess that fixing one bug might just break a hundred programs that depend on that bug. And Microsoft isn’t interested in anyone fixing bugs — they’re interested in making money. They don’t have anybody who takes pride in Windows 95 as an operating system. People inside Microsoft know it’s a bad operating system and they still continue obviously working on it because they want to get the next version out because they want to have all these new features to sell more copies of the system.”

“The problem with that is that over time, when you have this kind of approach, and because nobody understands it, because nobody REALLY fixes bugs (other than when they’re really obvious), the end result is really messy. You can’t trust it because under certain circumstances it just spontaneously reboots or just halts in the middle of something that shouldn’t be strange. Normally it works fine and then once in a blue moon for some completely unknown reason, it’s dead, and nobody knows why. Not Microsoft, not the experienced user and certainly not the completely clueless user who probably sits there shivering thinking “What did I do wrong?” when they didn’t do anything wrong at all.”

“That’s what’s really irritating to me.”

— Linus Torvalds, BOOT Magazine, 1998

To Hijack is Evil

We know that you: cannot cheat to get better score, cannot steal to get better anything (knowledge?fortunes?things?), cannot rob to get what’s not yours. We also know that: to take what’s not yours is evil, to use what’s need tobe bought without paying is evil, to get something good using wrong way is evil, to build better life from anything evil is the devil ways.

What’s need tobe explained ??

But we also understand that: anything good is either expensive or hard to grab and we, sometime, dont have enough power to achieve anything that makes expensive into cheap and hard to grab into easy picking.

Still.. what’s need tobe explained ?

To hijack is evil 😉

Seminar VoIP dengan InfoKomputer

Tanggal 6 Juli 2006 lalu saya menjadi salah satu pembicara di seminar VoIP bersama yang diselenggarakan InfoKomputer. Partner saya adalah kang Onno W. Purbo. Jalannya seminar cukup lancar, kendatipun tempatnya sempit, crowded (peserta>80), tempat parkir JHCC macet karena bersamaan dengan wisuda, dan saya datang terlambat hampir 30 menit 🙂

Profil peserta beragam, dari yang belum pernah kenal VoIP sampai yang sudah implementasi dikantornya, benang merahnya adalah bahwa semua intens menyimak penjelasan saya dan kang Onno seakan-akan materi yang dibawakan adalah materi baru yang mereka belum pernah dengar sebelumnya. Tidak banyak peserta yang saya lihat mengantuk dan tertidur di ruang seminar padahal seminar berlangsung cukup lama, dari jam 1 siang sampai jam 5 sore, no break, no coffee.

Pada kesempatan tersebut saya membawakan materi tentang VoIP Rakyat, sedangkan kang Onno membawakan materi tentang implementasi VoIP, tetapi beberapa kali kami berdua jumping saling mengisi materi, paling tidak menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan peserta bersama-sama.

Its all comin good 🙂 Everyone’s into it.

Si barang-lama-seperti-baru ini, VoIP, memang amat menarik untuk dipelajari. Terbukti dari beberapa kali seminar yang saya hadiri peserta tidak pernah tidak-antusias, pertanyaan-pertanyaan mereka tajam dan yang unik adalah beberapa peserta adalah returning-member 🙂 Menarik.

Antusiasme terhadap teknologi VoIP masih jauh dari berakhir, tanggal 15 Juli 2006 nanti akan diadakan workshop VoIP gelombang I, kali ini diselenggarakan oleh ICT Centre Jakarta. Tidak tanggung-tanggung, sekali pengumuman, berharap ada yang tertarik, rupanya justru berhasil mengumpulkan peserta langsung menjadi 3 gelombang. Good for ICT Centre Jakarta, semoga keuntungannya bisa balik lagi lewat inovasi-inovasi yang mereka ciptakan untuk rakyat Indonesia.

Freedom

Due to this news

I feel i need to speak mine.

Internet is in the heart of a public place.

Theres no place for freedom in it. If its there, i bet it isnt a freedom as freedom or free as freedom. Its just another “business” scheme which work in a special way, gave things for bigger returns.

Internet is in the heart of a public place, again.

Behave like you’re in it. 🙂