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The ‘Strange Symphonies’ blog presents the writing of Aizat Faiz, a Malaysian free culture advocate working with FLOSS, free content, and open standards.

It’s like making everyone a kid with scissors and glue, and letting them make their own collages from what is already out there. Azait Faiz

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Aizat Faiz is a self-proclaimed free culture advocate working with FLOSS, free content, and the development of open standards in Malaysia. An undergraduate student enroled in a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science at the Malaysian campus of Monash University, Aizat chronicles the effects which free culture and FLOSS has had on his education and employment. Aizat, aka ‘aizatto’, ‘zatto’ or the ‘Malaysian Free and Open Source Software junkie,’ maintains an interest in developing open standards, XHTML/HTML and the Open Document Format, in addition to programming using PHP and Ruby on Rails. He is a member of MyOSS, the Free and Open Source Software Society of Malaysia, the Malaysia National Computer Confederation Open Document Format Special Interest Group, was rapporteur at the 7th AsiaOSS Symposium, and has had some involvement in the Malaysia-United States Free Trade Agreement. After spending a year studying at the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Aizat enroled at Monash University where he entered the eGenting Programming Competition in 2006, and won.

‘As can be seen, the freedom to let me just take code online, read it, study it, remix it, hack it, has been extremely beneficial to me in terms of my education.’ (http://blog.aizatto.com/2007/05/23/why-i-support-free-culture/)

Given his strong skills in software development, Aizat has been employed by the United Nations Development Program International Open Source Network to work on the DocBook and WikiBook conversions.

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