It’s probably safe to say this… but in Malaysia, we’ve just lost some important folk:
- Imran William Smith – Lead of the R&D team at MIMOS, in the Open Source Division. Driving force behind one of the national OSS policies. Organiser of FOSSCON 2003. Will be greatly missed, as he’s going back to the UK. Has got great resources on archived policy documents.
- Ken Wong – Driving force at the IOSN, worked at APDIP, part of the United Nations Development Programme. Another voice on open source, done great things for us, wrote premiers, organised FOSSAP 2004, now moving on to another challenge.
Losing the sane folk is always an event that’s sad. 2004 has brought the loss of 2 OSS voices in the Malaysian market…