* MyGOSSCON 2012

MyGOSSCON 2012

Tahun ini, Urusetia MAMPU dihadapi pelbagai cabaran dan hasrat untuk mendapat Perdana Menteri atau Ketua Setiausaha Negara tidak dapat dilaksanakan sebab timing kurang elok. Akhirnya, Persidangan dirasmikan oleh Ketua Pengarah MAMPU. Kali ini, saya tidak mendengar taklimat pembentang kertas kerja kerana kebanyakan masa diguna menjaga booth dimana 75 pelawat mengunjungi yang I rasa adalah ramai memandangkan kebanyakan peserta menghadiri MyGOSSCON untuk mengetahui lebih tentang teknologi Open Source bukan GIS. Ramai berminat mendapat latihan QGIS yang diberi oleh kami. Sebenarnya, ramai mengetahui perkara ini semasa Ketua Pengarah MAMPU melawati booth kami, lalu mengucapkan terima kasih kerana kami telah memberi sokongan pada Open Source dan sudi berkongsi ilmu. Hari ni, saya mempelajari satu perkara penting...untuk membolehkan poster dipasang dengan cepat, pasti semua print-outs dikonfigur dalam saiz A0 landscape tapi ditampal pada mounting board portrait. Tak payah potong disini! Print-out ketiga set pada landscape bersama mounting board boleh tempatkan atas atau bawah mounting board asal tadi. Ini bermakna sebanyak 15 A0 print-outs boleh disediakan @ 3 print-out/ kolum booth. Perlu disediakan ringkasan, kertas kosong, pensil dan kad busines. Walaupun font yang diguna adala h besar, ianya perlu lagi besar utnuk menarik perhatian mereka yang hanya lalu didepan.

MyGOSSCON 2012

This year, MAMPU Secreatariat was besieged by obstacles and hopes to get the Prime Minister and Chief Secretary General were dashed because timing was bad. Eventually, the Conference was officiated by MAMPU's Director-General himself. I did not spend any time listening to paper presenters this time because all the time was manning the booth which we recorded about 75 visitors and I think is a lot considering most visitors came to know more about Open Source technology not GIS. Many were interested in getting QGIS training by us. In fact, the word got around on this when the Director-General made his visit to our booth later he acknowledged our support for Open Source and thanked us for sharing our knowledge with others seeking QGIS training. Today, I learnt a valuable lesson...to  quickly put up exhibition posters, ensure all print-outs are configured in size A0 landscape but pasted to a portrait mounting board. No cutting needed here! A third print-out set in landscape with its own mounting board can be placed above or below the earlier mounting board. This means there can be a maximum of 15 A0 print-outs @ 3 print-out per booth column. Leaflets, blank paper, pencils are important as well as business cards. Although our fonts were big, they need to be much bigger to capture the audience as they walk by.