Protem Commitee

President

Khairil Yusof

Profile

He has over 6 years experience developing and managing application development teams for various projects built on top of Free/Open Source Software. His primary interests are in the areas of IT capacity building through use of FOSS. Currently he is pursuing these interests as a programme consultant for  UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network.

An active member of the local FOSS community, he is also an active contributing member of the FreeBSD Project community and maintains several Zope and Python ports.

Projects

His main role is to support  FOSS-SM's projects and initiatives.

Vice-President

Yoon Kit Yong

Profile

Is an IT manager by day and an open standards advocate by night.

Projects

He contributes to SIRIM, and is currently educating Malaysians to understand the benefits of the adoption of ISO 26300 (ODF) as a Malaysian standard. More information on this effort can be viewed at openmalaysiablog.

Secretary

Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz

Profile

Primary interests are in web design, including XHTML, CSS, AJAX and web standards. His current area of interest is Ruby on Rails.

Projects

His goals are to reach out to the community. He is also tasked with engaging Universities.

Treasurer

Ditesh Kumar

Profile

Mr. Ditesh Kumar is a user, developer and evangelist of the FOSS movement and platform. He has been developing on the FOSS platforms for several years and has been involved in the local community by writing FOSS software as well as speaking and participating in local FOSS events. He has a keen interest in building a FOSS developer community in Malaysia.

Projects

LPI Community Examinations, Conferences and Workshops. Ditesh also manages foss.org.my's development server for the community.

Committee Members

Praburaajan Selvarajan

Profile

A student and an entrepreneur, Prabu is an open source software enthusiast who is Founder/Chief Technology Office of Interunix Networking Solutions Sdn. Bhd. a local network solutions company that uses Free & Open Source Software.  He is on the core team of Hack in the box which involves in tasks such as organizing the annual HITB Security conference series which happens in Kuala Lumpur & Dubai, He is also the only Malaysian staff member to Zone-H .  He is also the president for APIIT's Free and Open Source Software Interest Group.

Projects

Prabu engages students interested in learning more about security and FOSS.

Ow Mun Heng

Profile

Ow Mun Heng is an open source enthusiast working as an engineer at a leading IT storage company.

Projects

Ow Mun Heng is a general committee member that helps out with various FOSS activities.

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan

Profile

He has 2 years experience as Open Source System Engineer while working with one of the local Open Source company and 5 years personal experience in Open Source. His primary interest are in the area of localization. He had started the Projek Munsyi, and leading several Malay translation project with Fedora, Mandriva, Abiword and KDE.

Projects

Projek Munsyi
Kedidi Emas (co-lead)

Ang Chin Han

Profile

One of the leading Malaysian FOSS RDBMS developers, he current is heading the software engineering team at one of the leading FOSS companies in Malaysia.

Projects

He will be concentrating on setting up and improving MyOSS Meetups.

Colin Charles

Profile

Colin has been known to dabble with the OpenOffice.org, Fedora and GNOME projects, wearing various hats. In the Malaysian scene, he's performed advocacy as well as done OSS training. He currently works at the leading  open source database company, MySQL

Projects

Disbursing funds for grant requests, via FOSS-SM