Monday, October 30, 2006

My Action Plan

After get aproval from my supervisor and JICA Officer , I'm on the move! I have choose to promote Opensource in my ministry IT environtment . I decided to concentrate on 2 scope . Firstly I will migrate current technology to opensource . Second, I have to train the IT personal at least to maintain opensource server . Current stuation is 95% is windows technology and 5 % which is external dns is Freebsd .
For my first scope , a lot of studies has been done to ensure that opensource technology can be adapt smoothly in my environtment . Application that can be use with opensource introduced . For starting I will deploy this application at my office :

Big Brother monitoring
Moodle LMS
Owl Intranet Document Management
Snort IDS
PHPNuke Portal

At the begining of the deployment , a lot of issues especially during application deployment . Since I've never deploy apache web server and mysql , I'm facing a problem to integrate apache + php + mysql . Before installing the application , I have to prepare the server . I have choose Cent OS 4.3 as my server operating system . Last time during JICA training , I use Red Hat . So both operating system nearly same .

Learning Management System

One more opensource application i decide to deploy is learning management system . During my training in Japan , i use moodle for training quiz and exam . so last time i ask my facilatator to guide me oj how to configure it . I need to configure apache + php + mysql and some plugin . The installation is quite simple since the manual is complete from the website . I learn on how to use mysqldump, creating database from sql script . I took about 5 days to complete the installation . I consider the installation it is quite simple than big brother .

After success installation , i dump all my manuals from my training including japanese class notes . I shared with all my friends and colleague .