Re: Rhiaro and Sarven coming to MIT

Happy to take this discussion to another thread. The most important thing
in this one is that these PhD placements are fantastic news. I particularly
appreciate efforts to bridge between ongoing projects.

Ben


On Friday, August 21, 2015, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 21 August 2015 at 17:17, Ben Werdmüller <ben@withknown.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ben@withknown.com');>> wrote:
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>> Congratulations Sarven and Amy!
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>> Also, Crosscloud is really interesting, and I'm happy to commit to a best
>> effort to support it in Known (and help write stand-alone libraries) once
>> it is ready for this kind of integration.
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> +1
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> Great news!
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> Ben, I'd be open to helping out with this effort, time permitting
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>> Ben
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>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sandro@w3.org');>> wrote:
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>>> I'm happy to announce that Prof. Tim Berners-Lee has officially invited
>>> Social Web WG members Sarven ("csarven") Capadisli and Amy ("rhiaro") Guy
>>> to be visiting PhD students at MIT for this coming year, and they've
>>> accepted.   We're grateful for funding from QCRI [1] to support this.
>>>
>>> In addition to continuing their PhD research, the plan is for Amy and
>>> Sarven to be helping with the work of this Working Group.  My sense right
>>> now is that Sarven is inclined toward SoLiD-style solutions and is willing
>>> to represent that perspective as needed, as well as help with AS2.  I
>>> expect Amy will continue her efforts to bridge all the approaches.  We're
>>> happy to support them working as editors of group deliverables.
>>>
>>> BTW, Tim is also hiring coders to do SoLiD development.   See [2] and
>>> please help spread the word.
>>>
>>>      -- Sandro
>>>
>>> [1] http://qcri.org.qa/
>>> [2] http://crosscloud.org/jobs
>>>
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>> --
>> *Ben Werdmuller*
>> CEO & co-founder, Known
>> withknown.com | werd.io
>> <http://goog_1933028737>
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>>
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*Ben Werdmuller*
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