- From: inkel <inkel-rdf@f14web.com.ar>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:02:29 -0300 (ART)
- To: "Eric Miller" <em@w3.org>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Eric, I was the organizer of Buenos Aires semantic web meetup group [1] while I was living there. So yes, at least we were using meetup. As you may know, meetup is about to charge you as the organizer a monthly fee, so I don't know what is going to happen with these groups. I'll tell you how did I start the group: after the workshop we had in Buenos Aires [2] I thought it would be useful to have some way to keep in contact with those people, and I already knew about meetup, so it looked like a good place to start. While I was in Buenos Aires, we have 4 or 5 succesful meetups. I've tried to write a brief log after every meeting. I think this was useful, at least for me [3]. In my personal experience I can say that keeping in contact with a regular basis with the members of the group helps you a lot to have a successful semweb group. Also encouraging people to participate, or at least to show up in the selected venue is another good thing to do. The Meetup Organizer Center [4] has a lot of tips to run a group. Finally, I've published that little RDF [5][6] about the group you asked for :) It's handmade, so it isn't perfect, but I agree with you, having a semantic web group without semantic information about it it's nonsense. I even thought proposing this as an extension to Meetup. This is my personal experience. I hope it's useful to you and somebody else. It'd be nice to have these experiences documented somewhere (a wiki page maybe?). [1] http://semweb.meetup.com/1/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/dev_workshop_report_8/ [3] http://f14web.com.ar/inkel/2004/12/09/web-semantica-en-buenos-aires.html [4] http://orc.meetup.com/ [5] http://f14web.com.ar/inkel/2004/12/10/meetup.n3 [6] http://f14web.com.ar/inkel/2004/12/10/meetup.xrdf -- inkel Leandro Mariano López F14: http://f14web.com.ar/ weblog: http://f14web.com.ar/inkel/blog/ MSN: inkel.ar@gmail.com ICQ: 68476573 Yahoo: inkel_rss Movil: (+34) 695.084.343
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