Revision as of 19:04, 5 February 2008

Invitation letter from the organiser

Cebu Seminar Flyer

How Things Get Wired Up

• SIMON head, Mr Bonifacio Belen came to Malaysia 2 times to meet Red1 and discuss about pushing ADempiere as a national agenda for ICT in Philippines via the CEDF-IT.
• The idea is to create bridging courses to train locals in using a Community Open Source project
• Focus is on creating local entrepreneurship and employment among IT and business graduates and professionals.
• For a start Red1 was invited to visit Cebu and see for himself the setup and figures there behind the inititiative.
• We settle for a Philippine ADempiere Initiative to become the reference namesake to forge further systematically.
• After a 2 day CEDFIT in-house and 1 day open seminar as well as a series of meetings with national minister and figures,the stage is set.
• It came out in the news Proposaed 2008 OS Conference
  • Red1 to return in February, 2008 to start the bridging courses for CEDFIT and preparations for the OS Conference
  • Red1 to return in June, 2008 for the summit where we hope to generate a quantum leap in national interest.

ADempiere Training in Cebu

The class begins

All together now.. aiya butter fingers!

and CodeStryker

With Dellph

One for the road

Another guru arises

Participants

12 participants for a 2-day hands on seminar Nard, Mike, Naty, Kelv, Van, Luiggi, Chiistopher Niño, Ang, Fred, Niño Cel, Matz, Levi, chris ian (dellph)

CEDFIT One Day Seminar

Seminar to drive home Open Source

With Nette

and Jun

Seminar Topics

• This time i touch more on the wealth generating factor of Cyberspace
  • How dotcoms made billions based on web enabling paradigm
  • The web's power is under-utilised
  • There should be branding through sharing, collaborating to get the Blue Ocean effect
  • The market is tilted towards freedom
• ADempiere is a journey of branding and learning about the ERP app
  • Best used by educational environments rather than production instances
  • Good platform for 3rd world nations to build upon making the quantum leap to ERP ownership
  • Know-how is easy if we know-who in the forums and chat room
  • Introduce to all those great guys online such as Xp-prg, Victor Perez, et al

CEDFIT Annual Dinner

At the VVIP table

the Mayor's table

With The Secretary and Minister of ICT

CICT Secretary swearing in new members of CEDFIT

30 minute Speech

• Given the honour to address the dinner audience including the Honourable Secretary of CICT, Roxas Chua.
• Presented the parallel that Cebu is trying to create what many other nations such as Malaysia attempts in making the quantum leap to developed nation status via cyber-cities.
• Presented on how Malaysia architect, former PM Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was influenced by Keniche Ohmae's Borderless World:
  • Branding equity that is locally grown
  • Not Invented Here Syndrome where we tend to consume rather than produce our own brands
  • Lesson is that a formula has to produce a local champion icon to drive change and growth
  • Thus we look forward to Made In Cebu.

See Also

• Inquirer.Net
• Flash tutorials by Nard, one of the participants in CEDFIT