From: Jason Tan Boon Teck Date: May 6, 2004 Subject: Re: [SamadNet] Portal development Hi Ryan, You're welcome. Appreciate your effort to spread the word. I would think that the younger alumnus would be more IT savvy and would be less shy to communicate in open forums and e-mails compared to the older generations. Hopefully, this will build up to a critical mass. FYI, Mambo is licensed under the GPL. Regards, Jason Tan Boon Teck >Hi Jason > >Thanks for the update. > >Suggestions and ideas... hmmm ... > >Well, I think the internet usage in Malaysia is still >low, eventhough if you have great contents, you might >not still get high hits on the website. > >Strongly agree that the list should be tightly >moderated if there are forums, discussion board, or >chat rooms in future. If left unmoderated, surely it >will be exposed to abuse. > >About the portal .. errr mambo server, though I am in >the IT line, I am not sure what it is. Probably is a >LINUX kind of stuff. But should you be using Windows >platform, do let me know, and I will see what or how >can I help out. > >Meanwhile I will try to get in touch with ex-Samadians >that I know and notify them the existance of ESA, and >it is in danger of "deregistering". But a long shot >though ... god knows where are they now. > >Ahh .. those were the days ... it was so easy to get >the whole class(30 to 40 of them) chasing after a >soccer ball during PE classes back then , now, even >with these so called high tech communication, it is >even hard to get 4 of them for a badminton game !!! > >Anyway, thanks again for the updates. > >--- Jason Tan Boon Teck wrote: >> Hi Ryan (and everyone else), >> >> >> Well, the ESA was formally set up a couple of years >> ago by Adel and gang >> (our seniors who are still actively involved). >> >> The ESA suffered from the lack of publicity and >> awareness, since the school >> cannot provide the addresses of the school leavers >> to us and it would have >> cost a bomb to flood the physical mailboxes of PJ >> homes. >> >> There wasn't a proper website due to the lack of >> volunteers and also >> probably the lack of contents to keep it popular. >> >> However, we are now in the midst of merging SamadNet >> (the informal network) >> with the ESA's official website into one. A member, >> who will remain low key >> at the moment has graciously contributed a web host >> equipped with a easy to >> use open source portal called mambo server. We will >> register a domain name >> once the site is past alpha (what do you call >> progress before alpha but >> after napkin scribbles?). >> >> I'm thinking of a tightly moderated mailing list - >> something that facilities >> like yahoo groups cannot do. Noise to signal ratios >> could be too high to >> everyone's liking. >> >> The main chatting should be in the site's forum. Go >> there if you want to >> berborak or have a cup of virtual teh tarik on me. >> >> It may probably evolve into a virtual association in >> the 21st century with >> physical activiites and get togethers happening >> throughout the year. Some of >> the ideas being brainstormed are: >> - association activities announcements >> - association activities post mortems >> - school achievements announcements >> - gang fights schedules (just kidding) >> - job offers to help new grads and new land >> surveyors (liong day qoon) >> - reminiscing >> - keeping track of successful ex-samadians, eg. >> Bernard Chandran, etc. >> (requires RM50,000 contributions to be inducted into >> this Hall of Fame) :-) >> - most relevant site from online searches for >> ex-students looking for the alumni >> - secure online payment of subscriptions and >> donations (still not paypal) >> - full disclosure of payments if feature is >> implemented >> - old school photo album (we'll try to tumpang other >> sites if it gets too big) >> - special offers/discounts to members from those >> doing businesses >> >> Back to your question, the current President is Ezan >> and the VP is Zul. >> Susan is the secretary while Sook Heng is the >> treasurer. Ezan is actively >> involved in SMI/SME development programmes for the >> govt. Oops, I do not have >> Ezan's current private e-mail address. Susan, please >> help me. Anyway Susan's >> e-mail is hui_susan_@hotmail.com. >> >> The intention to dissolve the association was mooted >> by some in the >> committee since we don't seem to be going anywhere >> at the moment. >> >> We need volunteers for the ESA as well as the >> SamadNet portal. If you have >> any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to >> discuss them. Please also >> forward this mail to your other >> siblings/relatives/classmates/formmates/bas >> sekolahmates/Sri Jaya mates, etc. that have e-mail. >> >> >> L8R >> >> Jason Tan Boon Teck >> http://samadian.tripod.com >> >> ps. My jaring e-mail address seems to have a home in >> more than 1,000 address >> books, flooding my inbox every hour. Please include >> [SamadNet] into your >> subject title. >> >> >hi >> > >> >never knew there was "SMSASESA", because there were >> no >> >publicity, notice ... or etc. >> > >> >is it still in existance , or it is already >> >deregistered ? Who to contact ? Where ? etc etc etc >> > >> >thanks