Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

Congratulations on getting accepted to GSoC!  I mentored for 3 years (for a
different project) and it's a great opportunity for all involved.

Ignore Mr. McNaughton's weird little diatribe.  Perhaps when he's fixed the
oil industry he can come back and work on the computer industry.

Tom


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Pablo N. Mendes <pablomendes@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> In this particular case, I believe the excitement comes from the fact that
> this program supports the scientific community in key activities such as:
> 1) communicating research results, 2) funding; and 3) reproducibility.
>
> First, the academics involved will get their research publicized to
> thousands of students all around the world; Second, students will get
> funding for joining these academic projects; Third, all the results will be
> published as open source, allowing anybody to evaluate, reuse and contrast
> their work with those results.
>
> But sorry if I misunderstood the flamethrowing as actual comments.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Neil McNaughton <neil@oilit.com> wrote:
>
>> ** ** ** **
>>
>> Hello all,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance by
>> Google as an accolade. This, from the multi billion company that spies on
>> individuals, sniffing wifi passwords and gaming search to its own “do no
>> evil” ends. What is the world coming to I ask?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> **Neil McNaughton******
>>
>> Editor, Oil IT Journal (www.oilit.com)****
>>
>>
>>
>> ****
>>   ------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* Dimitris Kontokostas [mailto:
>> kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de]
>> *Sent:* 11 April 2013 09:04
>> *To:* semantic-web@w3.org; Linked Data community
>> *Subject:* DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> [Apologies for cross-posting]****
>>
>> Dear fellow DBpedians,
>>
>> I am very excited to announce that DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight have
>> again been been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2013!!!
>>
>> If you know energetic students (BSc,MSc,PhD) interested in working with
>> DBpedia, text processing, and semantics, please encourage them to apply!
>>
>> More details can also be found on the blog post here:
>>
>> http://blog.dbpedia.org/2013/04/10/dbpediaspotlight-accepted-google-summer-of-code-2013/
>>
>> On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team,
>> Dimitris Kontokostas
>>
>> --
>> Dimitris Kontokostas
>> Department of Computer Science, ****University** of **Leipzig****
>> Research Group: http://aksw.org
>> Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas ****
>>
>> <http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas>****
>>
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> --
>
> Pablo N. Mendes
> http://pablomendes.com
>