- From: Pablo N. Mendes <pablomendes@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:08:13 +0200
- To: Neil McNaughton <neil@oilit.com>
- Cc: Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CA+3KvkNH=msDL_eLFFR+qpdpYUW22TdpN0M+AJY42-zwwndCXA@mail.gmail.com>
In this particular case, I believe the excitement comes from the fact that this program supports the scientific community in key activities such as: 1) communicating research results, 2) funding; and 3) reproducibility. First, the academics involved will get their research publicized to thousands of students all around the world; Second, students will get funding for joining these academic projects; Third, all the results will be published as open source, allowing anybody to evaluate, reuse and contrast their work with those results. But sorry if I misunderstood the flamethrowing as actual comments. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Neil McNaughton <neil@oilit.com> wrote: > ** ** ** ** > > Hello all,**** > > ** ** > > There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance by > Google as an accolade. This, from the multi billion company that spies on > individuals, sniffing wifi passwords and gaming search to its own “do no > evil” ends. What is the world coming to I ask?**** > > ** ** > > **Neil McNaughton****** > > Editor, Oil IT Journal (www.oilit.com)**** > > > > **** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Dimitris Kontokostas [mailto:kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de] > > *Sent:* 11 April 2013 09:04 > *To:* semantic-web@w3.org; Linked Data community > *Subject:* DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013**** > > ** ** > > [Apologies for cross-posting]**** > > Dear fellow DBpedians, > > I am very excited to announce that DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight have > again been been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2013!!! > > If you know energetic students (BSc,MSc,PhD) interested in working with > DBpedia, text processing, and semantics, please encourage them to apply! > > More details can also be found on the blog post here: > > http://blog.dbpedia.org/2013/04/10/dbpediaspotlight-accepted-google-summer-of-code-2013/ > > On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team, > Dimitris Kontokostas > > -- > Dimitris Kontokostas > Department of Computer Science, ****University** of **Leipzig**** > Research Group: http://aksw.org > Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas **** > > <http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas>**** > -- Pablo N. Mendes http://pablomendes.com
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