Re: Presentation at Developers Conference

From: Beach Samurai <beach.samurai_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 20:45:00 +0400

I couldnt attend...just wondering why 100and not 50? :p
On Apr 23, 2015 8:44 PM, "Loganaden Velvindron" <loganaden_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:30 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Shelly, Ish and I gave a presentation about the Mauritius Internet Users
> at
> > the Developers Conference. We started the session one minute late and
> ended
> > on time. My presentation of the two initiatives was not satisfactory as
> it
> > took longer than I planned for. A number of persons commented that the
> > price of a .mu domain name was too expensive. There were several
> questions
> > about the 100 Mbps local internet access initiative. Ish and I explained
> > why 100 Mbps was suggested instead of, for example, 50 Mbps. We were
> asked
> > how 100 Mbps would improve the internet in Mauritius. Ish replied by
> using
> > youtube.com as an example. Shelly talked about the case of the pink
> tote.
> > We then covered topics such as latency and security.
>
> Thank you SM, Ish and Shelly for such a brillant presentation. I
> couldn't attend it, but I'm very happy when I read about it !
>
>
> >
> > There was a comment that a bank web site was not safe because it used
> Open
> > Source Software. We did not respond to the comment as the discussion
> would
> > take us off-topic. The responses to the question about online banking
> was
> > interesting.
>
> With Open Source, you get the source code of the product, but you
> still need an Open Source Driver to pilot the car in the mad race
> against crackers on the internet :)
>
> If they have an inexperienced Open Source sailor, their ship is going
> to sink. Hire smart people, don't be cheap :)
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > S. Moonesamy
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 23 2015 - 16:45:13 PST