Re: Public SWEO Challenge? (was Re: Running code)

On Thursday 21 December 2006 09:10, Ivan Herman wrote:
> Kjetil's remarks yesterday and the discussion afterwards got my mind
> going, too:-) I think we referred to some sort of a public "SWEO
> Challenge", defined by us and sent it out to the developer community.
> (I think Danny referred to something like that in one of his emails,
> too.) I have no idea yet what we could 'offer' (apart from general
> fame), but I am sure the W3C communication guys will help us on that.
> But it is certainly an idea we should explore.

Cool!

I'm not sure the Challenge is the right thing, right now I'm more for a 
community, so more a Rally. :-) It seems that no-one, including myself, 
has enough time to take a project to something useable. I think 
building a community where people can come together over a common goal 
is likely to be more successful.

The problem is that many like to push their own projects, there are 
always more ideas than coders, and so, there is much w00ting but little 
contribution of code. As many capable folks sit around with a desire to 
see the semweb succeed, as we have no little intellectual investment in 
it, I think that it is important to appeal to the common interest in 
its success. 

Hmmm, let me try to sit down a come up with a text.


Cheers,

Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
Semantic Web Specialist
Opera Software ASA