Results are out!!!!

Salam and Good Day to all,

Below is the list of all the winner on each category. I would like to congratulate each and everyone of them for a job well done and a well deserved win. This had been a truly an exhilirating and rewarding experience for the organisers, sponsors and hopefully to all the contestants as well.  To those who didn't make the cut, don't be dishearten, our path will definitely cross again.

Again, a note to all winners....We hope to meet the winners in person for the prize giving and press activities.  Kindly confirm your attendance by emailing the organizer at amran (at) php.net.my latest by June 1, 2009.  See all of you then !!!!

Winners by each category:
Blog Category
Aizuddin Akmal Ahmad - Wordpress

Forum Category
Shahrun Nadzree Bin Khairil - MiniBB

E-Commerce Category
Mohd Sufian Bin Othman - OSCSS

Wiki Category
Nasrul Amri Samsudin - MediaWiki

CMS Category
Muhamad Abdul Hay B Sulaiman - Xoops

Judging results will be out by 12.00 midnight, May 30, 2009...

We appologize for the delay, but we had found that the judging takes longer then expected.  We will post the judging results latest by 12.00 am midnight tonight instead of the earlier published 12.00 pm today.  This is to ensure that the judging is done thoroughly.

Be sure to check out this page constantly.

A note to all winners

The prize giving ceremony will be held at the MSC OSCON Event Venue, Berjaya Times Square Convention Cente, 14th floors, Berjaya Times Square at 6.30 pm - 9.30 pm on June 3, 2009 jointly with the MSC OSCON Hackathon prize giving and award party ceremony.

We hope to meet the winners in person for the prize giving and press activities.  Kindly confirm your attendance by emailing the organizer at amran (at) php.net.my latest by June 1, 2009.

Welcome to the LAMP2WIN website.  The theme, “World of Inter-Operability” brings the meaning to the Open Source community the message that we are not alone in software eco-system.  We have to come to terms with the existence of multiple platforms in the computing world.  To make our applications more robust, we have to take a pragmatic development approach and ensure that the applications we create are able to operate on whatever given platforms.
 
Interoperability is about how different software systems work together while Open Source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software which it may or may not be interoperable.

Realizing the powerful capabilities of PHP, and the shortcomings of some Open Source applications available only on uni-platforms gave us the idea of holding this competition.

LAMP2WIN offers 20 Open Source applications in 5 different categories with partial or no support to the Windows platform, and each contestant will be assigned one of the applications on a round robin basis.

Each contestants will be given a PHP/IIS/MS SQL supported hosted space where they will be able to upload and operationalise their “migrated applications” at any time during the competition period.  This is important as uploaded and operational entries will be viewed and judged by both the public and the official judges.  Contestants are also encouraged to blog about their experience while performing the migration.  Although this is not mandatory, but it will help the judges understand the processes taken in the development cycle.

There is still much room for improvement in this event, and for that, please accept our humble apologies.  We invite everyone from the community to contribute your opinions; register yourselves, and let’s have interactive healthy discussions on the forum, Twitter, and Facebook on areas where we can improve.

The underlying idea of the competition is not really about selecting the best application, but to contribute back to the Open Source community and about achievements.  At the end of the day, the winners can brag about their feats and bag along the handsome winnings.  So, good luck to all !!!

Selamat datang ke halaman web LAMP2WIN. Seperti yang disebut di atas, LAMP2WIN adalah pertandingan pengaturcaraan yang memindahkan aplikasi 'open source' kepada platform Microsoft Windows. Tema "World of Interoperability" bermaksud sebagai komuniti open source, kita bukan dalam dunia yang tersendiri, open source suka kepada standard terbuka dan data terbuka. PHP sendiri mempunyai sokongan dari pangkalan data komersial sama ada menggunakan API lama atau PDO. Kami mempunyai misi untuk menunjukkan bahawa open source boleh bekerjasama dengan pembekal komersial.
 
Idea LAMP2WIN timbul apabila saya terfikir dengan sumbangan kepada aplikasi open source yang rendah dari komuniti open source Malaysia, kenapa tidak menganjurkan satu pertandingan yang membuatkan komuniti menyumbang kepada aplikasi open source ?
 
LAMP2WIN akan memilih 20 aplikasi open source yang mempunyai separa atau tiada sokongan pangkalan data MSSQL. Peserta akan diberikan satu hosting yang mempunyai sokongan PHP/IIS/MSSQL dan diminta untuk menjadikan aplikasi yang diberikan boleh dijalankan di hosting tersebut. Pemenangnya akan dihakimkan oleh anda (ya anda!) sebanyak 40%, dan 60% dari pihak kami (Hakim yang dipilih oleh PHP.net.my) .
 
Jadi idea kami bukan untuk memilih yang terbaik, tetapi ingin komuniti open source Malaysia menyumbangkan sedikit kepada komuniti yang dimana sebelum ini mereka hanyalah pengguna dan selepas berakhirnya pertandingan ini, mereka boleh menyatakan dengan bangga bahawa mereka ada penyumbang kepada komuniti Open Source. Sebagai bonus mereka berpeluang untuk memenangi hadiah ( duit RM2000 bagi setiap kategori dan peluang yang lebih besar untuk mendapat geran MDEC sebanyak RM 150,000 )
 
Banyak lagi perkara belum selesai, masih ada ruang kosong, masih ada kelemahan yang kami rasa boleh dibantu oleh anda semua. Apa yang kami perlukan ada interaksi dari anda semua, daftar akaun di halaman web ini, buat interaksi di forum , Twitter, Facebook dan berikan pandangan anda untuk menjadikan pertandingan ini lebih bermakna.