The Malaysian Government Interopersbility Framework For Open Source Software MyGIFOSS
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The document summarizes Malaysia's MyGIFOSS program which provides guidelines for adoption of open source software (OSS) in the public sector. It outlines objectives like promoting interoperability and reducing costs. Recommendations include using OSS and open standards, particularly those recognized internationally. Examples are given of recommended OSS for areas like desktop applications, server applications, and vertical applications. The document is intended to guide public sector agencies and allow MyGIFOSS to be improved based on feedback.
The Malaysian Government Interopersbility Framework For Open Source Software MyGIFOSS
- 1. Open Source Software Seminar Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) 21 th March 2009 The Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program MyGIFOSS
- 2. INTRODUCTION
- 3. BASELINE Questions that you ask yourself before using OSS. How (How you are going to do it?)
- 4. What (What you want to do?)
- 5. Who (Who will doing it?)
- 6. When (When to do it?)
- 7. Where (Where to do it?)
- 8. GUIDELINE MAMPU has produced numbers of guidelines related to OSS. OSS Implementation Guidelines
- 9. Malaysian Public Sector OSS Initiative
- 10. Open Source Reference Architecture (OSSRA)
- 11. Web Application Guideline (WAG)
- 12. Pilot Projects
- 13. MyGIFOSS Contains information on OSS , open standards and technical specification for adoption in Malaysia
- 14. Recommendations for interoperability in the usage of OSS in public sector
- 15. Guide for government agencies in adoption of migration to OSS
- 16. DEFINITION Minimal set of standards and technical specification
- 17. Governing the use of OSS and info access
- 18. Adopts internationally recognized and ratified open standards
- 19. MyGIFOSS covers Examples of OSS within solution area
- 20. Recommendations for info and services access
- 21. OBJECTIVES To enable both proprietary and open source in government info system to communicate and inter-operate efficiently and effectively
- 22. To promote and foster the OSS adoption within the government
- 23. To promote vendor-neutral and technology-neutral implementation
- 24. To reduce the total cost of ownership of government information system
- 25. BASIC OF RECOMMENDATION Interoperability
- 27. SCOPE Covers the use of OSS and open standards
- 28. Scope of the application. covered within the 6 solution areas Workload consolidation
- 33. Desktop solution
- 34. How To Use MyGIFOSS ? This document is structured in the following manner Discusses about open standards
- 35. Selection and examples of OSS
- 36. Recommendations on information access
- 37. Discussion about set of standards and specifications that are compliant to specific domains.
- 38. OPEN STANDARDS
- 39. Overview Open standard is a standard that publicly available and has various rights
- 40. Open = royalty free technologies
- 41. Standard = rules that are published by the major internationally recognized standards bodies such as ISO, IEEE, W3C Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 42. Open Standards and OSS Both are intimately connected
- 43. Open Standards enable OSS to achieve interoperability with proprietary software
- 44. Open Standards help to spread the usage and acceptance of OSS Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 45. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WITHIN DEFINED IMPLEMENTATION AREAS
- 46. Overview Selection of OSS to be used in ICT implementation Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 47. Guidelines / Standard Matrix Guidelines of OSS for use within identified implementation areas Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 49. BSD (“Berkeley Software Distribution) Family of OS Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 50. Desktop Applications Office Productivity Suites – Openoffice.org
- 51. Web Browser – Mozilla Firefox, Konqueror
- 52. Desktop Environment – KDE and GNOME
- 53. Server Applications Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) – Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim
- 54. Database Server - MySQL, PostgresSQL
- 55. Web Server – Apache, Lighttpd
- 56. Network Security Firewall – Iptables, IPFilter
- 57. Network Intrusion Detection System - Snort
- 58. Virtual Private Network – OpenVPN Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 59. Vertical Applications Content Management System (CMS) Joomla, Drupal
- 60. Leaning Management System (LMS) Moodle
- 61. Geographic Information System (GIS) GRASS Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 62. Products from OSCC MySpamGuard
- 63. MyNetWatch
- 64. MyWorkSpace
- 65. MySurfGuard
- 66. MySurveillance
- 67. MyMeeting
- 68. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INFORMATION ACCESS
- 69. Overview Components and Technical specs required to enable users to access public sector information and services via delivery channels (WWW) and devices (PC, Mobile Phones and PDA)
- 70. Recommended Standards /Specification Document (ODT)/ Spreadsheet (ODS) / Presentations (ODP)
- 71. Graphical Image ( JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG)
- 72. Compression (Zip, GNU Zip, Bzip) Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 73. Complying with MyGIFOSS
- 74. Overview Supplements the recommendations of OSS for the public sector
- 75. To be compliant with MyGIFOSS, OSS should be used on daily basis for ICT work , both at server and desktop Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 76. Minimum Requirements Operating environment OS – Linux , BSD Family OS
- 77. Networking – TCP/IP Standards
- 78. User Interface – Dekstop GUI and Server GUI
- 79. File and Printer Sharing – NFS and CUPS Internet Services Websites and Web contents – Conform with W3C standards
- 80. Web servers – Compliant with HTTP
- 81. Email – IETF protocol ( I nternet Engineering Task Force)
- 82. Ribut Otak
- 83. R&D OSCC Proposal Share our problems with IPTA
- 84. Smart partnership in RnD Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 85. MyWorkSpace Clean integration with LDAP and DBmail
- 87. New LDAP schema for Dbmail and Horde intergration
- 88. Secure connection using SMTPS
- 89. http://myworkspace.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 90. MySpamGuard Senarai Putih E-mail Kerajaan (SPEK) SpamAssassin rules in Malay and SPEK scoring http://www.blue-quartz.com/rbl/
- 92. http://myspamguard.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 93. MyNetWatch Integrating with Cacti
- 94. Auto discovery and rebuild scripts Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 95. MyMeeting Calendar integration with MyWorkSpace
- 97. http://mymeeting.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 98. MySurveillance Integration with MyNetWatch log monitoring and analysis
- 99. http://mysurveillance.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 100. MySurfGuard Rules for Malay content websites
- 101. Exception rules for government sites
- 102. http://mysurfguard.oscc.org.my/ Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
- 103. MyGIFOSS is constructed to be a “live” document providing guidelines and recommendations for OSS adoption within public sector and can be used by others.
- 104. Help us to improved OSCC Products Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit CONCLUSION
- 107. YM : linuxmalaysia Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit
Editor's Notes
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