Yaron, During SemTech 2009, we had a "de facto" SMW meetup of sorts during the Semantic Wiki session chaired by Mark Greaves. Even though it was supposed to be a generic Semantic Wiki session, with Knoodl and zAgile in the mix, it was dominated by SMW.
The usual SMW suspects were there doing presentations in the jam-packed session - Denny with his most excellent presentation (see http://simia.net/download/SemTech2009.ppt), Steven Forth from LeveragePoint/Monitor, Jesse Wang from Vulcan with his crowd-pleasing SMW in Entertainment (Seattle Seahawks) and MS Office Integration presentation, Marc Feickert from FamilySearch, Daniel Hansch from Ontoprise, and Deborah Mcguiness from RPI. Also had a chance to announce SemanTrac (mashup of SMW and Trac) in my slot. (I'll post the presentations at referata as soon as I get clearance from each presenter) Also, the night before, there was a "meetup of meetups" session spearheaded by Marco Neumann and the various coordinators from different cities. During lively deliberations, it was agreed by the different meetups start standardizing on SMW to facilitate proceedings. Since the Semantic Web meetups are really starting to gain critical mass (there are 900+ members in NYC alone per the last stats Marco shared), having SMW as the default interface for all these Semantic Web adopters, I think, will go a long way towards getting even wider acceptance and accelerating adoption. Perhaps, we can make a call for all the Meetup volunteers/coordinators to get together for the next SMW user group meeting. One thing that Marco mentioned that Meetup.com has is the strong event management subsystem (RSVPs, calendaring, etc.). If we add these event management components to SMW or at least, attempt to have some kind of seamless integration with meetup.com (Marco said so himself during the "meetup of meetups"), all the Semantic Web meetup groups can really start the showcase the power of SMW as we "eat our own dogfood". - Joel On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Yaron Koren<yaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There will be presentations about Semantic MediaWiki at two upcoming > conferences, or should I say "conferences", since neither one is really a > conference. The more important one is Wikimania 2009, in Buenos Aires, > Argentina in August: > > http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal > > The official schedule isn't yet decided, but I can confirm that there will > be a panel discussion about SMW featuring Markus K., Denny V. and me. I'll > also be giving a separate talk about external data in MediaWiki, that will > cover the External Data extension, as well as some stuff about SMW, and > other extensions. > > For those living around the Eastern United States especially, you should > also note the upcoming NYC wiki-conference in late July: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference_2009 > > The subject range is quite a bit like Wikimania's, although it's structured > as an "un-conference", with presentations and meetings decided on the spot. > Although we do know Jimmy Wales will be giving the keynote address. (!) > Anyway, I plan to talk about SMW in one way or another there, and you can > too, if you want to, or you can just show up and go to some interesting > Wikipedia-related talks and discussions. If you've never been to Wikimania, > I think it's a good chance to see what Wikimania is like, on a smaller > scale. > > Finally, is it too early to start talking about the next official SMW users > meeting? Possibly, although if not, I'm thinking it makes sense to have one > in November 2009, a year after the last one (well, the last one that wasn't > tied to some other conference); but in any case you have any opinions about > the date, or about the location or anything else, I created a stub page for > the meeting, here: > > http://smw.referata.com/wiki/SMW_Fall_2009_users_meeting > > Feel free to add your thoughts, if you're interested in going. > > -Yaron > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > > -- ======================================================= j...@natividads.com * wirel...@natividads.com Think Different! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different#Text) Imagine Different! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tOgRD4EqY) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to semantic-forms@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to semantic-forms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
