From: Jason Tan Boon Teck Date: May 7, 2004 Subject: Re: [SamadNet] Portal development Hello Bala, Long time no see (read?). Thanks for informing your classmates, even if you're halfway around the globe ... thanks to DARPA, et al. Joo Kim is busy spoiling my 6 month old nephew. ;-P Her e-mail addy is in the cc. Regards, Jason Tan Boon Teck http://samadian.tripod.com >Hi Jason - This is really good stuff - and I think it'll catch on. >Especially since we seem to be a lot more globally dispersed these days. I'm >in the UK at the moment doing my MBA and who knows where I'll be next ! >However, I do have a list of e-mails from our 1986 5SM class which I can >share with you at some point. > >Good luck with this and please send my regards to Susan, Ezan ! > >Hey - what is Joo Kim doing these days ? > >Bala > > > >From: jasontn@pc.jaring.my (Jason Tan Boon Teck) >To: Wong , samadian@yahoo.com >Subject: Re: [SamadNet] Portal development >Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:20:06 +0800 (MYT) > >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