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
CPUT, later this year, will be hosting computer science instructors (and any other interested parties) in a week-long barcamp on teaching open source. This is an open call for participation. Anyone interested should please visit – http://bit.ly/b18yzg. You are advised to ‘cc’ me (adeyeyem{at}cput.ac.za) when sending the requested email. For more information on POSSE South Africa, please visit – http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa
Below is a correspondence between Benny Prijono, the developer of the C Language SIP stack – PJSIP, and me. I sought his permission before publishing this e-mail.
From: “Benny Prijono” <bennylp{at}pjsip.org> Subject: Re: PJSIP in the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Date: Fri, March 12, 2010 3:21 pm To: “Adeyeye Oluwasegun Michael” <micadeyeye{at}crg.ee.uct.ac.za> Cc: support{at}teluu.com
Hi Adeyeye, Wow, another strange usage of SIP.We'll add the link asap, thanks for the info. Cheers Benny On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Adeyeye Oluwasegun Michael <micadeyeye{at}crg.ee.uct.ac.za> wrote: > Hi Benny, > You might want to share this on your site - Integrating PJSIP into the > Mozilla Firefox Web Browser. The browser extension is called TransferHTTP, > and it available at http://transferhttp.mozdev.org. > > I have a demo of the work here - > http://www.ngportal.com/research/transferhttpclients.ogg > > The extension is used to move web sessions, set-up a voice call and stream > media between two PCs. > > Regards, > Michael. >
Benny now lists my work on his site as one of the works (Open Source Projects) that used PJSIP. See http://www.pjsip.org/apps.htm
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)
Open Everything: a viable tool for improving research productivity in developing countries
(A case study of the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Prologue: This is an open discussion. I am currently brainstorming on this idea and would like to read everyone’s contributions.
Open Everything is a new and broad term that includes Free Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Software Service, Open Education, Open Textbook, to mention a few. There is a massive movement towards Open Everything, most notably in Developing Countries, such as South Africa, with the recent launch of Cape Town Open Education Declaration. FOSS has played a significant role in Education, Government and Industry in terms of using FOSS to conduct research, using zero-cost software packages for governmental projects, and developing commercial products from FOSS.
The flexible licenses in the FOSS have resulted in innovative products and solutions, which are regularly pushed to the market. Although the resulting products are free to use, modify and redistribute, some products are commercialized. Open Software Service is a service provided by a software application running online and making its facilities available to users over the Internet via an interface. This development encourages individuals, companies or bodies that could not afford to buy licensed software to use a service and periodically pay for it.
Here, the research goal is to start a set of open source projects; run the project for a long period, probably three years; evaluate research outputs of academics and PG students at the commencement of the project and after three years; and draw conclusions if the project has imparted knowledge into researchers at home.
What are the open source projects?
How would I evaluate the work?
I look forward to your contributions.
