If you notice the surge of posts here lately, it is none other than because of I’ve tendered my resignation beginning early December. Yeah, I quit my job and currently serving 1 month notice (another month is to be compensated by new employer). It is a great relief, although only temporarily. I have more pleasure writing once I’d transitioned my tasks to the new hire and my peers (pity them), other than a more peaceful mind and feeling more energetic.
I’ll kick of 2009 with the new job (hope it’ll last longer) just few blocks away from my current office building. Expecting the fresh but bigger challenge plus new type of ‘headache’ . That’s what I called ‘job’ right?? Alright, but that is not what I want to write here (will be covered here soon hopefully).
During this ‘free time’, besides blogging, I discover a lot of things that I have no chance or being limited by time before. It’s fun. Above all, I’m reading quite a lot of things as the result of my eagerness of subscribing RSS feed. To date, I’ve subscribed to 499 feeds, increased drastically from around only 100 the month before. Feed reader is obviously very useful if you want to keep in sight with the websites you like/want to read.
Started from Le Web that I found via TechCrunch, I’m curious to know if we have similar event in Malaysia, although in smaller scale. From there, I came to know about Barcamp, Startup Camp, FOSS, OSCC which is the platform for software developers to get together, share and showcasing their solution which runs on open source. Although I do have a background in IT, but it mainly on enterprise solution runs on proprietary technology,so the me this concept of open source and start up is rather interesting.
Such site is really an eye opener to me when most of the time, I’m writing about giant tech companies which has been covered by most media. This is stack contrast to our own industry where such effort rarely gets the spot light on mainstream media or IT publication. Probably we’re lacking of Techcrunch alike sites covering Malaysian startup version.In case you’re new in this area like me, Entrepreneurs.my is a good start, but lots more to catch-up.
In my experience of following numbers of local tech bloggers, rarely start-up & open source getting an attention except when there is event going on. Even myself used to missed it. What’s wrong? I admit that I’m not following them closely. And, have you ever read about that in mainstream media/mag??
I’m inspired to dig local start-up community an successful start-up after reading some of their achievement although my writing is far from perfect and lack of killer points. I bet some of you already heard about Flavert, AIMS or Khailee.
Well, enough for now. So at the mean time, while I’m digging for more info, enjoy viewing this slide – about entrepreneurship and learning.
