SOSA - Singapore Open Source Alliance
So.. they beat me to the punch. I've always advocated towards the formation of BOSSA which is the acronym for Business Open Source Software Alliance but this idea, though floated a couple of times, still sank down the bottom like it had an anchor tied to its tails.

Sigh,,,

Well, our neighbor country, Singapore has this alliance set up and running. As far as I can tell, that's it but even if this only creates a bunch of brouhaha, I believe the initial hype would still have made things matter.

This alliance is called SOSA, an acronym for Singapore Open Source Alliance and it has some big names backing. Names such as RedHat, Novell, HP, Apple etc.

Spearheaded by Resolvo Systems, a Singapore-based Linux solutions provider, the Singapore Open Source Alliance (Sosa) will also converse with chief information officers in government bodies as well as small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), to accelerate the growth of open-source software in the island-state.

As I had mentioned in my previous blogs, we need to attack the educational framework in all countries for Open Source to work. Tiertary education must be about education and not who/which company can provide (the education centers) the most discounts or most grants to conduct their business of education the students.

"people would generally go with what is acceptable and widely used, rather than try something different." - Singapore School Authorities when asked about their stance on Open Source by David Tang, Novell Singapore

This is truly pathetic.

Come on people, focus on education. Focus on creating people who knows how to think and perform the work. Costs must take a back seat, especially where educating the next leaders of the country is concerned.


LINK to the ZDNET Asia Article