- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:25:05 +0100
- To: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
PS. The mighty capable organizers, Aldo and Valentino, got an art exhibition co-located with the conference. Getting a bit of culture in there was brilliant :-) 2009/1/23 Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>: > Somewhat late, but maybe useful for someone: > > At the Italian semweb conference SWAP 2008 [1] I did a tutorial, about > 15-20 attendees. > > The first half, a presentation was straightforward and I think > functional, I used a cut-down & tweaked version [2] of the slides > ChrisB & co. used in Karlsruhe. > > The second half hands-on would have been a major embarrassment had it > not been for danbri. I wasn't sure of the demographic, so had decided > to play it by ear, something using FOAF. The night before it occurred > to me to set up ftp on my server so people could actually publish > stuff...after several hours I had no joy on the admin. Then I thought > it would be *much* neater to set things up for POSTing stuff to the > server via HTTP. Naturally I didn't get my Apache config sorted in > time. > > My fallback was ssh. Which didn't work on the venue's network. > > Dan bailed me out by suggesting the use of a Wiki for upload, and he > had an ARC install to play with, so the session basically turned into > a SPARQL tutorial. It was rather clumsy - e.g. I was using the > computer in the venue, Windows XP and IE are not friendly to even > things like text editing. > > Lessons learnt: mostly preparation might have helped :-) > > Cheers, > Danny. > > [1] http://www.swapconf.it/2008 > [2] http://www.swapconf.it/2008/tutorial_day.php > > -- > http://danny.ayers.name > -- http://danny.ayers.name
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