[Dahut-pm] Hackathon for Semantic Web with Perl in London, UK.

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

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
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
Ph.d Research Fellow, Semantic Web
kjetil at kjernsmo.net
http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/