Calendar
Open the confirmed Teams schedule, join links, and staff attendee guide.
OpenDSL Masters / NRF Application Sprint
Turn the first scaffold into your own NRF proposal.
This workspace gives the first DSL Masters cohort a shared place to read proposal scaffolds, prepare for interviews, revise quickly, and submit a stronger internal draft before the NRF deadline.
Compulsory revised draft
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 08:00 SAST
Final NRF submission
Friday, 3 July 2026 via NRF Connect
Start Here
Use the site as a sprint workspace: join the discussion, read the scaffolds, understand the supervisor fit, and submit your revised version.
Resources For Better Thinking
These pages are not top-level navigation. They are support material for writing a clearer, more human, more research-ready proposal.
Sprint Vision
The mindset for the week: write for a busy human and own every sentence.
Engineering vs Research
Turn a useful build into a research question, evidence route, baseline, and contribution.
How to Revise
A step-by-step revision checklist before the Thursday hand-in.
Official Submission
The reminder that NRF Connect is the official submission route and remains your responsibility.
Important
Your revised draft submission by Thursday, 2 July 2026, 08:00 SAST is compulsory. The final NRF submission on Friday, 3 July 2026 via NRF Connect remains your responsibility. This site does not replace NRF Connect.
Fact-check every claim, revise the scope, add real citations, and own your final wording.