Re: VoCamp Bangkok ?

Anyone attending ASWC in December, who'd be interested in running a vocamp
session,
I would be happy to support (and learn something at the same time)

While I dont think the target audience for this would be all of the
conference attendees themselves, with some exceptions,  this would be a good
opportunity to run an open session for non conference attendees around the
conference themes, and open up the vocabulary world to the local geeks who
gravitate around Barcamp and who are still far from the realities of
semantic programming, (and that includes me hem)
- code vocabularies, uh? -

Local facilities available easy, hook with local IT communities also easy

cheers

pdm


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Knud Hinnerk Möller
<knud.moeller@deri.org>wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> after a successful first VoCamp in September in Oxford, the second VoCamp
> [1] will be hosted at DERI Galway in Ireland in little more than a month
> from now, on 25th-26th November.
>
> What are VoCamps? - "VoCamp is a series of informal events where people can
> spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for
> the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating
> the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabs that are
> good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web. The
> intention is to follow a 'paper first, laptops second' format, where the
> modelling is done initially on paper and only later committed to code. The
> VoCamp idea is heavily influenced by BarCamp, although the VoCamp should
> only have presentations where strictly necessary." [2]
>
> Just like the first VoCamp, the event will be very loosely organised - we
> will provide the facilities, coffee and cookies, you bring ideas and
> enthusiasm to discuss, design and develop vocabularies and ontologies for
> the Semantic Web. Some people will surely continue the work they have
> started at VoCamp Oxford, but everyone is invited to join and come with new
> ideas as well!
>
> VoCamp is a free event - there is no workshop fee in order to attend.
> However, you will have to cover your own expenses, i.e. travel,
> accommodation and food. Also, space is limited, so we are restricting the
> number of attendees to 30 - if you want to come, make sure to put your name
> on the list in the VoCamp wiki [3] and don't forget to put down some topics
> you'd like to work on!
>
> If you need more convincing, have a look at some pictures from the previous
> VoCamp in Oxford: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/vocampoxford2008/
>
> Looking forward to welcoming you to Galway,
>
> Knud Möller, Richard Cyganiak and Uldis Bojars
>
> [1] http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampGalway2008
> [2] http://vocamp.org/wiki/WhatIsVoCamp
> [3] http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampGalway2008#Participants
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>
>
>


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