The Malaysian Government Interopersbility Framework For Open Source Software MyGIFOSS

Open Source Software Seminar Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) 21 th March 2009 The Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software (OSS) Program MyGIFOSS

INTRODUCTION

BASELINE

Questions that you ask yourself before using OSS.

How (How you are going to do it?)
What (What you want to do?)
Who (Who will doing it?)
When (When to do it?)
Where (Where to do it?)

GUIDELINE

MAMPU has produced numbers of guidelines related to OSS.

OSS Implementation Guidelines
Malaysian Public Sector OSS Initiative
Open Source Reference Architecture (OSSRA)
Web Application Guideline (WAG)
Pilot Projects

MyGIFOSS

Contains information on OSS , open standards and technical specification for adoption in Malaysia
Recommendations for interoperability in the usage of OSS in public sector
Guide for government agencies in adoption of migration to OSS

DEFINITION

Minimal set of standards and technical specification
Governing the use of OSS and info access
Adopts internationally recognized and ratified open standards
MyGIFOSS covers

Examples of OSS within solution area
Recommendations for info and services access

OBJECTIVES

To enable both proprietary and open source in government info system to communicate and inter-operate efficiently and effectively
To promote and foster the OSS adoption within the government
To promote vendor-neutral and technology-neutral implementation
To reduce the total cost of ownership of government information system

BASIC OF RECOMMENDATION

Interoperability
Internationally recognized standards

SCOPE

Covers the use of OSS and open standards
Scope of the application. covered within the 6 solution areas

Workload consolidation
High performance computing
Distributed enterprise
Application solution
Infrastructure solution
Desktop solution

How To Use MyGIFOSS ?

This document is structured in the following manner

Discusses about open standards
Selection and examples of OSS
Recommendations on information access
Discussion about set of standards and specifications that are compliant to specific domains.

OPEN STANDARDS

Overview

Open standard is a standard that publicly available and has various rights
Open = royalty free technologies
Standard = rules that are published by the major internationally recognized standards bodies such as ISO, IEEE, W3C

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Open Standards and OSS

Both are intimately connected
Open Standards enable OSS to achieve interoperability with proprietary software
Open Standards help to spread the usage and acceptance of OSS

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE WITHIN DEFINED IMPLEMENTATION AREAS

Overview

Selection of OSS to be used in ICT implementation

Guidelines / Standard Matrix

Guidelines of OSS for use within identified implementation areas

Operating Systems

LINUX
BSD (“Berkeley Software Distribution) Family of OS

Desktop Applications

Office Productivity Suites – Openoffice.org
Web Browser – Mozilla Firefox, Konqueror
Desktop Environment – KDE and GNOME

Server Applications

Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) – Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim
Database Server - MySQL, PostgresSQL
Web Server – Apache, Lighttpd

Network Security

Firewall – Iptables, IPFilter
Network Intrusion Detection System - Snort
Virtual Private Network – OpenVPN

Vertical Applications

Content Management System (CMS) Joomla, Drupal
Leaning Management System (LMS) Moodle
Geographic Information System (GIS) GRASS

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MySpamGuard
MyNetWatch
MyWorkSpace
MySurfGuard
MySurveillance
MyMeeting

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INFORMATION ACCESS

Overview

Components and Technical specs required to enable users to access public sector information and services via delivery channels (WWW) and devices (PC, Mobile Phones and PDA)

Recommended Standards /Specification

Document (ODT)/ Spreadsheet (ODS) / Presentations (ODP)
Graphical Image ( JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG)
Compression (Zip, GNU Zip, Bzip)

Complying with MyGIFOSS

Overview

Supplements the recommendations of OSS for the public sector
To be compliant with MyGIFOSS, OSS should be used on daily basis for ICT work , both at server and desktop

Minimum Requirements

Operating environment

OS – Linux , BSD Family OS
Networking – TCP/IP Standards
User Interface – Dekstop GUI and Server GUI
File and Printer Sharing – NFS and CUPS

Internet Services

Websites and Web contents – Conform with W3C standards
Web servers – Compliant with HTTP
Email – IETF protocol ( I nternet Engineering Task Force)

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MyWorkSpace

Clean integration with LDAP and DBmail
User Administraion GUI
New LDAP schema for Dbmail and Horde intergration
Secure connection using SMTPS
http://myworkspace.oscc.org.my/

MySpamGuard

Senarai Putih E-mail Kerajaan (SPEK)

SpamAssassin rules in Malay and SPEK scoring

http://www.blue-quartz.com/rbl/
http://spamikaze.org/
http://myspamguard.oscc.org.my/

MyNetWatch

Integrating with Cacti
Auto discovery and rebuild scripts

MyMeeting

Calendar integration with MyWorkSpace
Sign-on using OpenID
http://mymeeting.oscc.org.my/

MySurveillance

Integration with MyNetWatch log monitoring and analysis
http://mysurveillance.oscc.org.my/

MySurfGuard

Rules for Malay content websites
Exception rules for government sites
http://mysurfguard.oscc.org.my/

MyGIFOSS is constructed to be a “live” document providing guidelines and recommendations for OSS adoption within public sector and can be used by others.
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