My experience as an Open Source Architect

S. P. T. KrishnanChairman, donorweb.org

[kris@donorweb ~]$ who am i

RHCE of the year 2007, APAC

Red Hat Certified Engineer

President’s Social Service Award 2004, Nominee

Invited to Istana

Reception forPSSA nominees

@ Istana

My most trusted distro:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

My First Linux Distro: Red Hat Linux12 years with Linux

Principal Architect: donorweb.org

Researcher, Developer, Sysadmin… what is donorweb.org?

Born in Y2K, v1 In NUS, as student project

Won e-innovator award from Singapore Government

Adopted by Singapore Red Cross

Y2K + 1

Official Singapore Blood Stock Indicator

V2, Y2K + 2

SMS Gateway 91734293

V3, Y2K + 3

CMS (broadcast), Forums

V4, Y2K + { 4, 5 }

Oct 07Home page

1) R3CASEAN++ Blood banks

V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}

2) BMOSBloodmobile CRM

V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}

3) SMS5(bulk SMS, multi-user)

V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}

4) Stocks3(Live + History)

V5, y2k + { 6, 7 ,8}

Oct 2007As at

Softwarestack

Hiring !!! …volunteersWeb CMS, new VM-based architecture

V6, next year

Costs savings(tax payers, please note )

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Cost (S¢)Capacity (MB)

1 2 3 40%

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Capacity (MB)Cost (S¢)

Cost (S$) Capacity

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RHCEAWARD

RED HAT SUMMIT

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MYTEAM

FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU…

Long time ago…

THEN THEY LAUGH AT YOU…

Yesterday…

THEN THEY FIGHT YOU…

Today…

THEN YOU [WE] WINTomorrow…

FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU…THEN THEY LAUGH AT YOU…THEN THEY FIGHT YOU…THEN YOU WIN…

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