This material was shot during the official opening ceremony of MEST and shortly afterwards. It was screen on GTV some 2 months later (Questions: MEST people, help me out when it was). Part of the video are a presentative of the University of Philadelphia and the Minister of Manpower of Ghana.

It is recruitment time again:
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is recruiting students and recent graduates with a strong background in software engineering and a keen interest in teaching and sharing their knowledge with talented graduates in Accra, Ghana for a
one-year assignment.
I can only recommend this position to anyone who is not afraid to step on unknown ground and wants to see how far he gets with his university education, being Bachelor, Master, German “Diplom” or whatever, when really challenged. It is a so called “once in a lifetime” chance …

BubbleTimer is a RubyOnRails application, making extensive use of AJAX to give it a nice desktop like feel as you can see in the screenshot. Check out Sean’s BubbleTimer, maybe it is also useful for you.

A group of trainees and faculty from MEST went to the facebook garage and it was actually fun!

David Seah’s compact calendar got updated to the 2009 version. So it seems to be time to release my modified version for Ghana as well, this time a little bit earlier than last year :) Make sure to read David’s descriptions on how to use the calendar so that it can really improve your productivity!
Download Compact Calendar Ghana 2009

A lot of conferences, meetings and competitions are lining up the next couple of weeks and I want to take this chance to spread the word about them a bit.
Too bad that I will out of the country already when this years BarCampGhana takes place on December 22nd. Still it will be a great opportunity for all the Entrepreneurs in Training here at MEST to rub shoulders with some of their colleagues out in the corporate world. I hope a lot of people will come and MEST will have a …