Re: Introduction: Benjamin Nowack

Benjamin,

welcome. I am not sure you can make it at the last minute, but we will
have a telco later today. Here is the announcement of Susie:

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Call Details:
Date of Call: Wednesday December 20, 2006
Time of Call: 11am ET (4pm GMT)
Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA)
Participant Access Code: 7936 ("SWEO")
IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #SWEO
Duration: ~1 hour
Scribe: Frank Chum

Agenda:
Review action items
Progress reports on resource gathering
Update on the enterprise questionnaire - Susie
Discussion on reaching out to Web folks - Paul W. and Kjetil
AOB

Kind regards,

Susie
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Cheers

Ivan


Benjamin Nowack wrote:
> 
> Hi outreachers,
> 
> My name is Benjamin Nowack, I've just been invited to the group
> and I'm truly impressed by the offer. I hope I'll be able to 
> contribute as expected.
> 
> My background: front-ends ;) I never really liked computers and
> considered them mostly as sneaky attention sinks perpetually
> giving you an illusive "almost there" feeling, always demanding
> "just a little bit more time". Favourite quote: "Let's quickly
> do it with the computer".
> 
> The Web's HTML dragged me into Software development in 1995 as
> it offered this instant gratification and immediate creative 
> possibilities I didn't see in programming languages and the like.
> I followed the common slippery slope with stops at JavaScript, 
> Perl, ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP/MySQL. Also learned a bit graphic
> design. But the me-against-geekdom game was more or less lost
> when I started looking at RDF.
> 
> Now I'm spending way too much of my time building SemWeb 
> systems[1], tools[2], and apps[3] suited for average Web
> developers like me. It's still the "almost there" state, but 
> I'm finally starting to experience the productivity boost RDF
> infrastructure promises, and I think the timing for SWEO 
> couldn't be better, esp. now with SPARQL mature enough for 
> deployment.
> 
> Personal sweo activities: a workshop and some talks in Germany
> this year, slowly moving away from research-y stuff towards more
> trendy topics. Next big event (with great outreach potential) is
> going to be the german webinale[4] where I am invited to talk
> about the "Dream Team Web 2.0 and Semantic Web".
> 
> Most successful outreach activity so far: wearing the
> SWAD-E/FOAF t-shirt at this year's DrupalCon. You can't imagine
> how many people asked what RDF is about and where I got the 
> cool shirt from ;)
> 
> I graduated at Wuerzburg University of Applied Sciences in 
> Germany (BA, major Info Management), and currently work from 
> Essen in the "Ruhr Valley" as an individual developer.
> 
> IRC nick: bengee (#swig, #foaf, #microformats)
> 
> Looking forward to SWEOing,
> Ben
> 
> [1] http://semsol.com/
> [2] http://arc.web-semantics.org/
> [3] http://rdfer.com/
> [4] http://webinale.de/
> 
> --
> Benjamin Nowack
> http://www.bnode.org/
> 
> 

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Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
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