International: Open Source CMS in Thailand
Reflections on the Thai Joomla! community
Written by Akarawuth Tamrareang
Limitations
Lack of support from the public sector in promotion, and financial support in various events. Relevant expenditures for different events usually came from the private sector, i.e., only Marvelic Engine Co., Ltd. (http://www.marvelic.co.th) is the main organizer.
There is no government policy for supporting activities in this area since they are only interested in specifically required scope more than providing support in general development or promoting for continuity and sustainability usages.
Lack of common responsible body in the Community, whether from users or from organizations beneficial from CMS implementation. The donation is minimum or almost not existing for building and strengthening the Community. Many groups just look at it and feel indifferent on its continuation or sustainability of the Community, as long as it is still beneficial for them.
Given the above-mentioned limitations, one can conclude that relevant work for Open Source CMS’s community in Thailand; after being established, on-going and its growing; is responsible by few core group of people. It’s such a pity if their efforts goes unnoticed. And, well, that’s one thing that make the Open Source CMS movement in Thailand rather slow than it should be. Hopefully, the developers group has not yet thrown in their towel.
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