Re: Introduction: Benjamin Nowack

I'll try to be there.

On 20.12.2006 15:01:03, Ivan Herman wrote:
>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:
>
>---------------------------------------
>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
>----------------------------------------
>
>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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