From kjetil at kjernsmo.net Tue Mar 8 14:37:28 2011 From: kjetil at kjernsmo.net (Kjetil Kjernsmo) Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:37:28 +0100 Subject: [Dahut-pm] Hackathon for Semantic Web with Perl in London, UK. Message-ID: <201103082337.28824.kjetil@kjernsmo.net> Hi all! As many of you probably are aware, I've been working to organize a hackathon to improve the state of the art of Perl tools to work with the Semantic Web. Now, it is really going to happen. The venue will be The London Hackspace in London, UK and the time is 28th to the 30th of March (we'll start about 9 o'clock am and finish the official programme about 5 pm). These are the currently confirmed participants: Gregory Todd Williams, Toby Inkster, Kjetil Kjernsmo, Chris Prather, Florian Ragwitz, Mischa Tuffield and Espen Borgen. There's also a web-page about the event, which is sponsored by NUUG Foundation, ABC Startsiden AS and the SeSam4 project: http://www.perlrdf.org/workshops/london-hackathon-2011.html If you consider participating, consider the following: This is an event for those who just wants to code to make Semantic Web happen. It is not for those who wants to learn Perl or RDF. To this end, participants are expected to have prior knowledge of the technologies, and must be able to produce code and willing to license it free and upload it to CPAN. The whole thing is organized on a pretty tight budget, so while I may be able to cover some costs for food, for now industry or academic participants are expected to pay small fee to cover the costs of lunch and dinner. You are expected to find your own accommodation and transportation. We are particularly interested in developers who can help integrate triplestores or reasoners with the infrastructure that we have already. If you're interested, please respond to me privately. For those who want to learn Perl and RDF, we will organise a dissemination workshop at the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS'11), http://wims.vestforsk.no/ . You are encouraged to register and participate at this conference. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Ph.d Research Fellow, Semantic Web kjetil at kjernsmo.net http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ From chris at prather.org Mon Mar 21 09:38:45 2011 From: chris at prather.org (Chris Prather) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:38:45 -0400 Subject: [Dahut-pm] Fwd: [Epo-members-announce] Google Summer of Code: Students and Members needed In-Reply-To: <4D8741BA.8030309@shadowcat.co.uk> References: <4D8741BA.8030309@shadowcat.co.uk> Message-ID: I got this from the Enlightened Perl Organisation mailing list. Thought people might be interested, or know someone who is. This is a reasonable chunk of change, and experience for someone in college. -Chris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Keating Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:16 AM Subject: [Epo-members-announce] Google Summer of Code: Students and Members needed To: m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk, wauk at workalone.co.uk, geekup at googlegroups.com Hi All, [1] As you all know the Google Summer of Code gives students the chance to involve themselves with an open source project and this year the efforts on behalf of The Perl Foundation (TPF) are being run by Florian Ragwitz (Rafl). The first stage of this process (the accepting of the mentoring organisation) has passed and the TPF have been accepted. You can now visit http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2011/tpf to view more details. I am now asking for your help in spreading the message about the TPF and in looking for students to join in with this year's event. If you could pass this message on to any mailing list you are on, or share it with appropriate locations so that we can make this year the most successful year for Perl ever it would be much appreciated. The main site for the Google Summer of Code is: http://www.google-melange.com/, a timeline for participation can be found at http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline. As you can see the student participation period opens on 28th March, so we have just one week to get the word around. Some prospective project ideas for this year can be found at: http://epo.means.no/gsoc2011/ideas, though i must stress that a student can suggest any idea they wish to the mentoring org. If anyone wishes to join in and be a mentor for this year then please contact Rafl a.s.a.p. Thanks -Mark [1] I apologise for the cross posting that anyone receives, I am simply trying to get as broad an audience as possible. -- Mark Keating BA (Hons) ? ? ? ? ?| ?Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder Managing Director ? ? ? ? ? ? ? | ?Shadowcat Systems Limited Director/Secretary ? ? ? ? ? ? ?| ?Enlightened Perl Organisation co-Leader ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? | ?North West England Perl Mongers http://www.shadowcat.co.uk ? ? ?| ?http://www.enlightenedperl.org http://northwestengland.pm.org ?| ?http://linkedin.com/in/markkeating _______________________________________________ Epo-members-announce mailing list Epo-members-announce at lists.scsys.co.uk http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/epo-members-announce