Barcamps have become pretty popular events here in Thailand, in case some of you are interested, there are camps more focused on semantic technologies starting to happen in Europe called Vocamps
If some barcampers in Thailand are interested to learn more, we may have a chance to set up an informal thing during the first or second week of December in Bangkok, when some friends and colleagues from the semantic web community will be visiting for a conference (ASWC, one of those expensive, registration only events). Personally I think it would be important to hook as many of these semantic heads as possible, who will be in town and flying a very long way - for their formal, all expenses paid, five star, beind the wall event - to meet the informal, 'open to all' IT community which is developing as part of Barcamp I think we should try to twist their arms and give us a mini digest free for all, or somethin I would be happy to ask if any of these illustrious visitors, some of who I have already met in person, if they would be interested to volunteer giving a crash presentation about the gist of Vocamps and meet barcampers Thailand for informal showcase of what they do, and possible future synergy . Even if its just a handful of people. You never know, one day we may have a Vocamp in Thailand too.... Paola Di Maio 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/ [1] http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampGalway2008 [2] http://vocamp.org/wiki/WhatIsVoCamp [3] http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampGalway2008#Participants ------------------------------------------------- ************ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
