nbliang

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About Me

Full Name: Nicholas Ng Boon Liang
E-mail: nbliang@gmail.com
Location: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~nbliang
IRC: nbliang@irc.freenode.net

Background

An evangelist and supporter for free and open source software (FOSS) as well as the open standards. Actively involved in educating and promoting the usage of FOSS and the important of open standards to public, organizations, businesses and government. Also involve with few of the open source projects such as translation, etc.

I am one of the founders and a committee members of Kuching Open Source Community (http://www.kuchingosc.org/), where we are promoting and introducing open source software and Linux to public around Sarawak, mainly in Kuching, Malaysia. I am also members of various teams in the Launchpad (please refer to https://launchpad.net/~nbliang/+participation for my complete team list).

Plans & Goals

I will just start with smaller goals of what I can do:

To promote open source software (especially Ubuntu) to others
Promote Ubuntu as the first choice in desktop usage (to help fixing bug #1 in Launchpad)
Become an official Ubuntu Member
Help others that have problems / queries with Ubuntu

and from there will move to bigger goals as stated below:

Learn to be a MOTU as well
Be one of the official contact in Malaysia for Ubuntu

Contributions

I have been involved with FOSS for few years now and do contribute as much as I could during my free or spare time. Here are my contributions in various groups:

Ubuntu / Launchpad

One of the Administrators and member of Malaysian Ubuntu Team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MalaysianTeam)
Translation via Launchpad for Malay language (https://translations.launchpad.net/~nbliang/)

Kuching Open Source Community

Promoting & supporting FOSS (especially Ubuntu) usage in Malaysia, especially in Sarawak
Giving talks, demonstration and installation to public at Sarawak, Malaysia

Others

Promoting the usage of FOSS to relatives, friends and colleagues
Write reviews on various FOSS topics:
- [http://www.boonliang.com/review/first-look-at-embun-20/ First look at Embun 2.0]
- [http://kuchinglug.blogspot.com/2005/11/mimos-gnulinux-live-cd-beta.html MIMOS GNU/Linux Live CD (Beta)]

Activities

Here are some of the activities that I was involved with:

Activities In Near Future

UNIMAS IT EXPO 2008 (UNITE08) BR(29 Feb until 2 Mar 2008 - Universiti Malaysia Sarawak - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) BRWe will be at UNIMAS for a presentation on various Ubuntu-related topics with members of PERTEKMA and the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology for Ubuntu InstallFest.

Previous Activities

KCBA PC Fair 2007 BR(30 Nov until 2 Dec 2007 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) BRWe are sponsored by Kuching Computer Business Association (KCBA) to promote FOSS to the locals. BR BR
Software Freedom Day 2007 BR(12 September 2007 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) BR http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/Malaysia/Sarawak BRI was involved and in-charged of the SFD 2007 for Sarawak region which is held in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) at their campus. BR BR http://www.kuchingosc.org/data/phoo/2007_09_13/thumb/sfd2007_02.jpg http://www.kuchingosc.org/data/phoo/2007_09_13/thumb/sfd2007_03.jpg http://www.kuchingosc.org/data/phoo/2007_09_13/thumb/sfd2007_08.jpg BR BR
KCBA ICT Expo 2006 BR(30 June until 2 July 2006 - Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia) BR http://www.kuchingosc.org/index.php?blog/show/KuchingOSC_at_KCBA_ICT_Expo_2006 BRWe also successfully distributed out 600 Ubuntu Dapper Drake CDs plus almost 200 older version of Ubuntu. We also receive good feedbacks from the visitors and some of them are interested to use it. More photos can be found at: http://www.kuchingosc.org/index.php?photos/album/2 BR BR http://www.kuchingosc.org/data/phoo/2006_07_03/thumb/booth02.jpg http://www.kuchingosc.org/data/phoo/2006_07_03/thumb/booth08.jpg http://www.kuchingosc.org/data/phoo/2006_07_03/thumb/booth09.jpg

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