Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

Hi,

I'm not relate to DBpedia, but I have been involved in a GSoC last year. It's a nice event to motivate students to participate in open source projects, to rise the awareness of open source solutions and even to exchange ideas among people (thinking about the summit).
I think it's good to be in. Then one could argue on the virtues of the sponsor and the constraints that make up the corporate world. But that's an unrelated bit.

my 2 cents.

Andrea


Il giorno 11/apr/2013, alle ore 09:24, "Neil McNaughton" <neil@oilit.com> ha scritto:

> 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