Showing posts with label Conservation and Digital Opportunity Centre (CDOC). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservation and Digital Opportunity Centre (CDOC). Show all posts

Monday, October 25, 2010

NCHC Internship Report Week 3 & 4: October 4th – October 13th 2010

INTERNSHIP WEEKLY TIME AND ACTIVITY REPORT
National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) 
Hsinchu City, Taiwan


Basic Information:
  • Name: Mulyadi Pasaribu
  • Intern Organization: National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC)
  • Advisors: Wei-Ping Jia: CEO of BCUA, Chia-Chen Kuo: Associate Research Scientist of NCHC, Steven Shiau: Associate Research Scientist of NCHC, Panut Hadisiswoyo: Founding Director of OIC
  • Supervisors: Ceasar Sun, Jazz Wang and Thomas Tsai from the Free Software Lab, NCHC
  • Service Period: October 4th – October 13th 2010
Weekly Report:

Time/Date
Daily Log
10/04/10
10/05/10
10/06/10
10/07/10
10/08/10
10/11/10
10/12/10
10/13/10
Time In
09.00 AM
Attending ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei
09.05 AM
08.55 AM
09.10 AM
09.05 AM
08.50 AM
Time Out
05.30 PM
05.20 PM
05.10 PM
05.30 PM
05.30 PM
02.30 PM

Scheduled Activities:
  1. 10/04: Clonezilla – Backup, Restore, Multicast
  2. 10/05: Attending ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei
  3. 10/06: Attending ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei
  4. 10/07: Self Learning: Clonezilla
  5. 10/08: Translating DRBL Software from English to Bahasa
  6. 10/11: Q & A
  7. 10/12: Q & A
  8. 10/13: Tux2Live


    Assignment: Translating DRBL Software from English to Bahasa

    Self Note:
    1. 10/04: This is the third week for me doing internship in NCHC and today I learn another open source software that developed by the Free Software Lab at NCHC. The software name is Clonezilla and this software used for backup and restore system. This in another free software that can be used and implemented in the CDOC as this software will help to clone a system from one PC to other PC.

      Mr. Thomas also teach me on how to use the Virtualbox OSE as an environment to trying the functionality of the Clonezilla software. Virtualbox is a new software for me and this will help a lot because with this software I didn't afraid to do try and error or experiment in laptop or PC as this is only a virtual machine that didn't affect the the real system in our machine.

      On this day I also got an assignment to translate the DRBL software from US English to ID Bahasa. The translation is different with previous Partclone software that only had few lines of sentences. DRBL translation is more than 800 lines and this need much time to be finished as sometimes the software language is much different with daily language.

    2. 10/05: This day I didn't come to NCHC as I attend the ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei. ADOC = APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Digital Opportunity Center.

    3. 10/06: This day I didn't come to NCHC as I attend the ADOC 2.0 Conference in Taipei. When the conference break for lunch, we got a good news because ADOC (supported by Asus Foundation) will help the mobile CDOC by providing 16 new laptops.

    4. 10/07: This day I didn't learn anything new. I only doing self learning about Clonezilla software and started to translating the DRBL software from English to Bahasa.

    5. 10/08: This is the last day of my 3rd week doing internship on NCHC (October 8th). On this day actually I scheduled to learn about Winroll and Tux2Live with Mr. Ceasar but because miss communication about the schedule so we can not learn the lesson and I spent the day to continue translation of DRBL Software from English to Bahasa.

    6. 10/11: This is the first day of my last week doing internship on NCHC. On this day we scheduled to have a Question and Answer discussion about all of the lessons I learn during my internship time. Actually I can learn the lesson well and I didn't had much question to ask. But today I know one of interesting information about NCHC when we having discussion with Ms. Kuo, Apple, Panut, A'al, Okta, Kieran, Nick and one of NCHC staff in the 2nd floor meeting room of NCHC. I just realize that NCHC is not only about open source software development but also have many other divisions that doing research and development such as multimedia design for education purpose. On this day, I also make a short presentation about what I've learn during my internship on NCHC.

      Interesting Multimedia Tools in NCHC

    7. 10/12: This day I didn't learn new lesson as the scheduled activity for today is Question and Answer. I only spent this day to continue translation of DRBL Software from English to Bahasa.

    8. 10/13: This is the last day for me doing internship on NCHC and this day I learn about Tux2Live with Mr. Ceasar. Actually Mr. Ceasar also scheduled to teach me about how to compile an open source software, but because I know my self and my current skill level in programming, I prefer not to learn about how to compile open source because I think I can't reach the limit to learn about it now, so maybe in the future.

    Sunday, September 19, 2010

    Promoting Sumatran Orangutan and Rainforest Conservation through the Introduction of Open Source Information Technologies

    Greetings,

    Due to unlucky weather condition in Kaohsiung, the presentation session of ICOS 2010 on 19 September was canceled and my presentation on OIC's case study about developing open source for rainforest protection unfortunately had to be canceled. However, as I had prepared a paper detailing the development of our open source project in Sumatra, I put the summary and the link to my paper in this blog, to allow you to explore our development. I welcome any suggestions and feedbacks for the better development of our open source and conservation endeavor. If you have further questions, please feel free to send your questions to my following emails: panut@orangutancentre.org.

    Best Wishes,

    Panut Hadisiswoyo
    Founding Director of Orangutan Information Centre
    Sumatera, Indonesia
    www.orangutancentre.org

    Promoting Sumatran Orangutan and Rainforest Conservation through the Introduction of Open Source Information Technologies
    By Panut Hadisiswoyo, David Dellatore, and Mulyadi

    ABSTRACT
    A framework for open source based collaborative conservation and a digital centre has been established in Sumatra, Indonesia. This pioneer project called the Conservation and Digital Opportunity Centre (CDOC) has been implemented by the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) as an environmental awareness raising approach by utilising open source technology as the main available resource for capacity building in the community. The CDOC has been developed in such a way that it provides substantial and valuable digital and learning services for the local community and thus empowers local conservationists to broaden the scope of conservation works to improve community livelihoods such as ecotourism and the conservation of Sumatran orangutans and other wildlife in the rainforests of Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra. However, the CDOC was developed using an ad hoc approach and thus improvements of open source technology and educational and learning resources as well as long term partnership with various organisations are required to sustain the CDOC services.

    KEY WORDS: open source, digital, community education, environmental awareness, sumatran orangutan, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra.

    For complete paper, please click the following link: