Michael Adeyeye (Ph.D)

Are you considering applying for the NRF (National Research Foundation) rating? I would be happy to share some valuable information and documents with you. I am an NRF Y rated researcher, where Y stands for Young. While I can’t publish my application on my blog, I am more that happy to share the feedback I got from the NRF office. The feedback is a summary of reports submitted by reviewers of my application. I am sure the feedback will tell you what you need to have (e.g. publications), do (e.g. organize events) and work towards (e.g. more collaborations and strong research team). In addition, it will tell you what to keep to the bare minimum.

One thing I found very scary but truthful is that my field is competitive; the reviewers just reminded of how dynamic the IT field is. I hope the below document will give some good tips to prepare your application. Many thanks to Dr Veruscha Fester of the Department of Civil Engineering, CPUT for sharing her application with me.

Downloads:
1. Outcome Feedback only
2. For my application, drop me an email

Africacom ended today, and I was hoping to see Mozilla’s stand. But there was none. Opera has been very noticeable in the last three years, and I managed to take a picture of its stand this year. Below is it, and I had a great time chatting with its employees at the stand. I am looking forward to seeing Mozilla’s and other prominent software companies’ stands.

Opera Software Stand

Firefox will soon run in Yoruba Language. Efforts are under way to complete our translations and push them to Mozilla central as soon as possible so that people can start using Firefox in Yoruba. If we complete the translations soon enough, we should see Firefox in Yoruba in the group “Localized Versions of Firefox in Testing” with other African languages, such as Zulu, Shongai and Northern Sotho,  in the next release of Firefox.

Join us; there are tonnes of resources out there that you can use. We also recorded our last session. That would help you a great deal to get started. Contact me for the video recording.

John Visser, a visiting instructor from Netherlands, talked about Robots to our students yesterday. Enjoy!!

Robots

Interested in some of the presentations at the Software Freedom Day in Gauteng? Here we go:

Hardware for Brewing (Monitoring and Control) and SAGE MATHS

Drupal: The Justin Bieber of Open Source CMS

E-breadboard – Open Source Decision Intelligence

URLs:
http://softwarefreedom.co.za/
http://www.house4hack.co.za/software-freedom-day-phun

CPUT FOSHS ’12 has come and gone. Many thanks to our presenters, supporters and colleagues (Dr. Ernest Pineteh and Wilhelm Rothman) that help organized it. On day 1, Wilhelm Rothman gave an interesting talk on VPN (Virtual Private Network)) and did some demonstrations using OpenVPN.  In addition, I gave a talk on ARM devices. I also did some demonstrations using Pandaboard. Day 2 was for the industry players to come present. All the presenters gave mind-blowing talks, such as Using Chef for System Automation and MongoDB Geospatial. Below are the videos of some of the talks.

Using Chef for System Automation

Quick talk on Linux filesystems

Some Pictures of the Event

Presentation Slides
Herman Smith: MongoDB Geospatial and Android
Jonathan Hitchcock: Using Chef for System Automation
Michael Adeyeye: Playing with ARM devices
Rothman Wilhelm: Towards Virtual Private Networks

Presentations

• MongoDB Geospatial and Android

Presenter(s): Herman Smith; Software Developer, Touchlab at Media24, Cape Town.
Time: Fri, 2012-08-03 10:00 Room Location: LH1.19

• Using Chef for System Automation

Presenter(s): Jonathan Hitchcock; Operations Team Lead, Yola, Cape Town
Time: Fri, 2012-08-03 11:00 …Room Location: LH1.19

• Quick talk on Linux filesystems

Presenter(s): Hiren Patel ; System Administrator and Freelancer, Cape Town
Time: Fri, 2012-08-03 12:00 Room Location: LH1.19

• Open Source Software at Motribe

Presenter(s): Bradley Whittington; Ops/Development Manager, Motribe, Cape
Town
Time: Fri, 2012-08-03 13:00 Room Location: LH1.19

©2012 Centre for Research and Development in Open Technology
Contact: adeyeyem{at}cput.ac.za or pinetehe{at}cput.ac.za

URLs:
http://www.ngportal.com/cputfoshs/
http://www.cput.ac.za/about/events/open-source-and-hardware-symposium

Mayowa Mulero had her graduation this morning. She has now earned an M.Tech degree in Information Technology. Mayowa used to be one of my diligent masters students; she completed her masters degree (by dissertation) in less than 18months.  In addition, she published a couple of papers in the course of studies (IST-Africa ’11, IASTED CIIT ’12, e.t.c.), and  her thesis sailed through external examination with no request for corrections. I wish you, Mayowa, the very busy in all your future endeavours.

We are currently looking for a developer and a FoSS (Free and Open Source Software) evangelist that could teach Open Source Software Development (OSSD) using Mozilla Technologies and preach to an audience the use of FoSS, respectively. We’ve run a couple of bootcamps in the past; an example is POSSE SA. This time around, we will be running a 3-day immersive bootcamp using the Mozilla Curriculum here.

The event will take place in one of the tertiary institutions in Lagos, Nigeria and its website is https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_Nigeria. If you are interested, please drop me a comment.

The ITU Kaliedoscope ’11 conference came to an end  yesterday. It is one of those conferences I have always wanted to attend, and I am glad this year’s conference took place at my backyard. It was at the University of Cape Town. It was nice meeting folks from Italy, most notably University of Bologna, where I have got some collaborators. The paper presentations were great, and I am really impressed with the diverse papers on policies, services, rural development and so on.
Many thanks to those that made it happen. I remember Paul Inglesby told me at a function (I think AfricaCom ’10) at CTICC that he wanted the next ITU Kaliedoscope conference to take place here.