- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 22:03:01 +0200
- To: "Indra Chandon" <indra@semantia.com.au>, semantic-web@w3.org
On Mon, 02 May 2005 10:26:54 +0200, Indra Chandon <indra@semantia.com.au> wrote: > In follow up to Eric Miller's message about local SemWeb communities. > > Hi, my name is Indra and I was the Melbourne, Australia Semantic Web > Meetup organiser, until meetup.com introduced a monthly fee of USD$9.00 > for hosting our community. I was happy to pay the $9 / month if that was going to provide a proper service. It turns out taht this is to be paid by cheque posted to the US, which for foreigners more or less doubles the cost, and introduces a heap of stuffing around at the bank or post office. I was not happy to do that. If someone sets up a decent community setup, that caters for semantic web groups and allows us some playspace to post some RDF, I'd be prepared to sponsor a couple of groups at something like USD $10/month, and a couple more if it were more like USD $5. This isn't going to pay the bills on its own, but it won't hurt either, and if there are a couple of dozen communities interested it looks like a useful investment of effort... So any RDF hackers out there wanting to make their testbed services pay for themselves, here's your chance. Note that I am after functionality - looking pretty isn't inherently important, but having nice interfaces for doing cool stuff, and being able to get my data back, is. (Think FOAF-a-matic, with some geo systems...) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundacion Sidar charles@sidar.org +61 409 134 136 http://www.sidar.org
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