- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:07:31 +0200
- To: Adam Retter <adam@exist-db.org>
- Cc: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@okfn.org>
- Message-Id: <D0751D24-AAC0-4741-86FA-66ACE6B4C07C@w3.org>
AFAIK, Jeni had the intention of going, as well as Phil Archer Ivan On 19 Jun 2014, at 12:05 , Adam Retter <adam@exist-db.org> wrote: > I am attending the CSVConf, is anyone else from the working group attending? > > On 19 June 2014 10:35, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@okfn.org> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I wanted to give folks a heads-up about CSV Conf, a one-day conference for >> data makers everywhere that takes place in Berlin in a month's time (and >> which I'm helping organize). Registration is currently open! >> >> I also note that it is just the day before the 2-day main conference of the >> Open Knowledge Festival for those who want to make it a double whammy! >> >> Regards, >> >> Rufus >> >> CSV,Conf 2014 >> >> Berlin, July 15 >> >> >> For Data Makers Everywhere >> >> http://csvconf.com/ >> >> >> Announcing CSV,Conf - the conference for data makers everywhere which takes >> place on 15 July 2014 in Berlin. >> >> This one day conference will focus on practical, real-world stories, >> examples and techniques of how to scrape, wrangle, analyze, and visualize >> data. Whether your data is big or small, tabular or spatial, graphs or rows >> this event is for you. >> >> Key Info >> >> Where: Kalkscheune, Berlin, Germany >> When: 15 July 2014, all day >> Web: http://csvconf.com/ >> Register: http://register.csvconf.com/ >> >> >> CSV,Conf is run in conjunction with the week long Open Knowledge Festival. >> >> What Is It About? >> >> Building Community >> >> We want to bring together data makers/doers/hackers from backgrounds like >> science, journalism, open government and the wider software industry to >> share tools and stories. >> >> For those who love data >> >> CSV Conf is a non-profit community conference run by some folks who really >> love data and sharing knowledge. If you are as passionate about data and the >> application it has to society then you should join us! >> >> Big and small >> >> This isn’t a conference just about spreadsheets. We are curating content >> about advancing the art of data collaboration, from putting your CSV on >> GitHub to producing meaningful insight by running large scale distributed >> processing. >> >> Colophon: Why CSV? >> >> This conference isn’t just about CSV data. But we chose to call it CSV Conf >> because we think CSV embodies certain important qualities that set the tone >> for the event: >> >> Simplicity: CSV is incredibly simple - perhaps the simplest structured data >> format there is >> Openness: the CSV ‘standard’ is well-known and open - free for anyone to use >> Easy to use: CSV is widely supported - practically every spreadsheet >> program, relational database and programming language in existence can >> handle CSV in some form or other >> Hackable: CSV is text-based and therefore amenable to manipulation and >> access from a wide range of standard tools (including revision control >> systems such as git, mercurial and subversion) >> Big or small: CSV files can range from under a kilobyte to gigabytes and its >> line-oriented structure mean it can be incrementally processed – you do not >> need to read an entire file to extract a single row. >> >> > > > > -- > Adam Retter > > eXist Developer > { United Kingdom } > adam@exist-db.org > irc://irc.freenode.net/existdb > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 GPG: 0x343F1A3D WebID: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf#me
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