I was wondering if anyone might be interested in this software localization project - http://www.africanlocalisation.net/call-applications-language-teams-2010. You could forward the blog-post to anyone you think might (also) be interested.
And I am more than happy to work with anyone, who is interested in the project.
Are you a Fedora tech guru in S.A. or any part of Africa? Or do you know of any in S.A. or any part of Africa? Please ask him or her to take a look at the information here – http://bit.ly/avrztf
It is nice receiving emails from people and firms about my project – TransferHTTP. I was contacted late last year by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle and Sun) on the project. And yesterday, Ribbit Corporation also indicated interest in my work. Below are the mails from both firms, most likely one of their developers.
Oracle and Sun
from B***d P* <B***d.P*{at}sun.com>
to date subject mailed-by Hi,
A colleague of mine showed me this project and it looks very exciting to me.
We are working a converged application framework (http://sailfin-cafe.dev.java.net)
for writing converged web/sip services quickly.I wanted to start using your plugin for some blogs and examples in the beginning. Would
it work with firefox 3.x? Do you have plans to create plugins for other browsers?thanks,
B***d.
Ribbit Corporation
Subject: Transfer HTTP
Michael,
Im wondering what the status of the Transfer HTTP project and if you had any plans to extend this to work on other platforms and browsers? At Ribbit we are quite interested in this kind of approach to Web Telephony and could possible help extend this work.
Thanks,
m**
My response has always been the same. I currently do not consider developing the extension for other Web browsers/platforms. The implementation was a proof of concept. Although the site (http://transferhttp.mozdev.org/installation.html) does not contain the FF 3.x version of the extension, I could provide anyone interested with the installer/source code. I hope to push the FF 3.x version of the extension to the site soon. I am also very happy to work with the firm/anyone interested in extending the work. Both TransferHTTP and TransferHTTPController were released under open-source licenses.
If anyone is interested in seeing how the extension works, here is a demo on it – http://bit.ly/pQVKX. And for the control services or proxy, here is its demo – http://bit.ly/7XPhc
I was at the Shuttleworth Foundation last Friday to receive my mesh potatoes (MP) from Steve. I unpacked the telephone equipments some days ago and thought I could easily set them up. I fiddled with the equipments for some hours before I could get them to work. It was awesome to see the MPs connect to each other via the wi-fi link. I am currently exploring the tracking feature (Afrimesh) and the billing mechanism (A2Billing) for the MPs. In addition, I am thinking of carrying out some benchmark tests (using SIPp/IMS bench SIPp). I hope to make some contributions before the next Village Telco workshop. Check here for my previous post on the Village Telco Project.
My Mesh Potatoes (The Village Telco Project)
I noticed about two days ago that my talk at FSOSS 2009, Seneca@York is now available at the FOSSLC site. It was titled “An Untapped Channel: Open Source Education in the Universities of Technology and Research Labs in South Africa.” Here is a summary of the presentation – . And if you are interested in the talk, check here. I have also got the slides online.
I was privileged to meet the brains behind The Village Telco Project last Wednesday. I joined them at a workshop, which was held at The Shuttleworth Foundation in Cape Town. The Village Telco project is a project aimed at making Telecommunication services available for those in the rural areas. It does not mean that you and I can’t use it. I am keenly interested in getting some of the modems (called Mesh Potatoes), and I am currently thinking of what contributions I could make in the project. Thanks a million to Steve, and I hope to see you guys (Rael – DABBA S.A., Antoine – The Shuttleworth Foundation, Elektra – Meraka Institute, David – The Free Telephony Project, Alan – Vanilla S.A., and Steve – The Shuttleworth Foundation) soon again.
The Village Telco Workshop
