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Vietnam-based company looking for a Vietnamese Ubuntu Guy

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:09:37 +0000

A friend from a Western company is looking for a Vietnamese guy experienced in using Ubuntu Linux. Please see the brief job description below:

To prepare an Ubuntu migration from Windows, we are looking for a Vietnamese Person with Ubuntu skills to support :

Post-Installation Ubuntu Support
Internal Staff Training on Ubuntu / Open Office
Location HCMC/Hanoi/Danang
Around 150 Computers will be migrated

This person will be connected with the IT to solve issues reported by the end-users. He will be a key person in the Ubuntu implementation, to be sure we have a smooth operation under Ubuntu.

Contact Me and I will forward your email to this company. This job sound very exciting.

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Tomorrow is the last day of Tet

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:24:56 +0000

Tomorrow is the last day of Tet, finally. This has actually been one long boring Tet for me. Normally I would spend some time out of the city but this year I just felt like hanging out at home. My alleyway, though quite loud on Day 2 of Tet, has been relatively quiet since with the exception of one yelling kid screaming.

I did get some things accomplished. I finally finished Traders Guns & Money. Clifton let me borrow his book first but I was a slow reader so I had to borrow a copy later from another friend. It was a great book but by the time I got to the end, I was glad to have finished it. Still, I will get a copy a do a more thorough reading next time.

I met another fellow Linux geek on Day 1 of Tet named Pratik. He has his own blog titled BirdBrain. I also met Tung, another new Saigon blogger who authors Saigon in a Cup at the same meeting with Pratik.

Though tomorrow is Day 5 of Tet, I must work and update a website for Operation Reunite. They will have an interview with CNN on Friday and this could be an official launch of the site. I am using Wordpress with the site and unfortunately a couple plugins broke some features that I will have to manually add such as the Facebook Add button.

By Friday, many people will start to return to Saigon for day 1 of their workday. The rest will return Sunday night. Saigon should still be a quiet city until then. Just need to remind myself not to go out Sunday afternoon.

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Free and Open Source Software Feature on VTV (Vietnam)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:09:09 +0000

I mentioned over a month ago that VTV visited my Linux Lab. A couple weeks ago they aired the 10 minute segment on VTV. I know several of the guys featured on the program including An Nguyen of SaigonLUG and Professor Son from the University of Education. The open source community is starting to grow in Saigon but it still has 5-10 years to mature. It is definitely more active then 5 years ago which is very positive.

My piece is at the 7 minute mark after the interview with Professor Son. Oh, the entire clip is in Vietnamese…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Sorry for adding this late, I posted it on Facebook over a week ago and then just got lazy

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VTV visited my Linux lab today

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:23:19 +0000

Ms. Quynh Ngoc from VTV visited my Linux lab at the American International School today through a referral by An Nguyen of SaigonLUG. Though we knew about it for a couple days, we only received permission from the school at the last minute. My students were not prepared but since this was a normal lab day, I was not worried.

This is actually my third academic year using Linux and open source software at AIS. For their ICT projects, the majority of my students are using either Synfig Studio, Blender and/or GIMP this quarter on either Ubuntu Linux or Windows platforms. I am impressed at how fast they transitioned to Linux and open source software. My 10th, 11th, and 12th graders this year are definitely my brightest open source users to date. I will blog about some of their projects in late January, 2010.

The visit by VTV was went okay. They just visited one class and got the footage they needed. Long, my ICT student, and I were interviewed outside the classroom. That was a little nervous for a guy who hates cameras.

I am glad that Vietnam is taking a stronger look into open source now. I also thank AIS for supporting open source and Linux from the first day I started there back in 2006. Our students will be some of the leading IT experts in the future, in my opinion…

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Google Developer Dinner – Saigon

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:39:00 +0000

Last Monday I meet with the team from Google for an informal dinner at the Gala Royale in District 1 of Saigon. About 14 people attending including several developers. Christine, Stephanie, Niki and Diana, yes all ladies, represented the Google team. This was just more of an informational meeting for Google. They will return next year to meet with more Vietnamese developers.

My friend, Phu, from the Vietnam Investments Group, recommended Gala Royale as our meeting place. It turned out to be a good location. VIG’s IT Manager, Cuong, also attended. Other in attendance included Leon Sikes (Managing Partner – MNG JVP), Vinh (Director of Software Development – SLG Vscapeone), Cuong (CTO – Buffalo Tours), Mark Tran (Managing Director – Transcend People Limited), Dr. Heiko Rudolph (RMIT Australia), Long ( my ICT student from the American International School) and Chi (who worked on an open source project with NEC and the Linux Foundation).

Hopefully in the near future, we will see a stronger involvement with Google in Vietnam.

Gala Royale M Lounge and Grill
63 Mac Dinh Chi Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Transcend People – Successful BPO in Vietnam

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:45 +0000

Over two years ago, I wrote a blog post about the Advantages of BPOs to Vietnam and how Vietnam had a comparative advantage due to low labor costs when compared to other outsourcing countries in Asia. Since I posted that article, I have received many inquiries monthly asking information about business process outsourcing (BPO) opportunities in Vietnam. Several BPOs in Vietnam have become quite successful including Transcend People, Ltd., run by my friend Mark Tran.

I met Mark a couple years ago. At that time, Transcend People, TPL, was located in one building. Today TPL is located in three different buildings in Saigon staffed by experienced Expat and Vietnamese professionals. Below are some information about Transcend People provided by their company website:

Established in 2004, Transcend People, Limited (TPL) is a privately-owned and rapidly growing business process outsourcing (BPOs) provider headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. TPL offers customized, flexible, and superior BPO solutions to long-term partners and aims to become a world-class BPOs service provider.

TPL was established and is managed by experienced industry professionals from the US. This unique background underlies a strong commitment to ease of integration, transparent communication, and superior customer service. TPL has built an extensive roster of loyal and satisfied clients who have experienced the TPL advantage. At TPL: We do it better! Source: http://transcendpeople.com/tpl/home/about.html

TPL offers the following BPOs services including; Data Entry, Web Services, Sales and Marketing, Accounting and Human Resources. You can visit their BPOs Solutions webpage for more information: http://transcendpeople.com/tpl/home/solutions.html.

I will blog more about TPL in the future. In the meantime, if you want more information about the services Transcend People offers, you can either contact TPL directly or just send me an email for a personal referral.

Transcend People, Ltd.

Website: http://transcendpeople.com

Contact: http://transcendpeople.com/tpl/home/contact.html

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SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:15 +0000

Straight from Mohan with e27 in Singapore. Yahoo is planning to sponsor one developer from Vietnam to attend the Open Hack Day in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Visit the e27 for more information.

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Saigon Software Freedom Day a Success!!!

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:34:16 +0000

Today I attended the Saigon Software Freedom Day 2009 organized by the Saigon Linux User Group at the University of Education in District 5. This is actually my first ever SFD that I attended. It was nice to meet Prof. Nguyen Thai Son again, a long time advocate of open source and Linux in Saigon. I made many valuable contacts from this event today including the Ubuntu-VN team.

Hats off to An Nguyen, the main organizer for the Saigon SFD and leader of the rejuvenated SaigonLUG for doing an excellent job. He did an amazing job and he is only 19 years old! Organizing an event in Saigon is not easy but he pulled it through. He is definitely one of the future “Who’s Who” of the free and open source community in Vietnam. I expect SaigonLUG and future SFDs in Saigon to be highly successful. He even got a potential sponsor for SaigonLUG.

Congrats An!

(Saigon Software Freedom Day 2009 had a large turnout)

(Ubuntu-VN team, a valuable asset to the Ubuntu community in Vietnam)

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IT class update, more Vietnamese Linux users :-)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:58:00 +0000

Well, I just completed week 3 at the American International School here in Saigon, Vietnam. I signed a one year contract to teach 2 ICT classes part-time for about 40 high school students ranging from the 9th – 12th grades. This most likely will be my last year teaching IT at this school do to my limited amount of time I have outside of my company.

This year my curriculum and syllabus were prepared for me before the school year started. As usual, I decided to add an open source component to my curriculum. My students were very receptive and by the end of week 3, the majority of my students already installed Ubuntu Linux on their laptops or netbooks. Ubuntu has come a long ways since my first Vietnamese student installed Ubuntu nearly two years ago. I only had to take about 4 netbooks home the last week to get them running properly, mostly just wifi issues. One of my brightest student was able to get the hda sound card to work after some tweaking. He also had the coolest laptop running Compiz. Yes, I allowed the Mac users to keep running their Macbooks in class

For the individual IT projects, I decided to make it interesting for most of my students. My students had to either design an airplane with X-Plane’s Planemaker, design their future Saigon house with QCad, or edit music with Audacity. For the first quarter, I want them to learn how to use their chosen software (over half decided to use QCad which surprised me). The goal by the end of the year is to match the Audacity students with the Planemaker and QCad students. I want all the student groups to create a movie of their QCad or Planemaker projects. This seems quite exciting from an IT teacher’s point of view.

For me, one of the goal of these IT projects is to get my students to teach themselves how to learn the new software. You will be amazed at how fast Vietnamese IT students can learn new software. I also found them some really nice YouTube tutorials as well that will help them thanks to the help of my students (See below).

I am looking forward to my final year with my IT students. Hopefully by the end of the year, I will post some good movies of my student’s IT projects.

Audacity Tutorials

Click here to view the embedded video.

Planemaker Tutorials

Click here to view the embedded video.

QCad Tutorials

Click here to view the embedded video.

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SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:24:45 +0000

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