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2007-04-21
"Can I Crash?" in Dublin?
We are going up to BarCamp Ireland 3 in Dublin tomorrow. Looking forward to see interesting presentations and meet people active in startups, technology and social media.
But that brings up a question - where to stay? If traveling from Galway to Dublin for an event like this it makes sense to stay overnight in Dublin. But all the places are either booked out or insanely priced (for student budget at least).
This reminds me about a very cool project - "Can I Crash?".
Quote: ... is a project of toothless tiger initiated by Henriette Weber Andersen - who basically is a young female who is tired of busting her entrepreneurial budget when there is things ( dinners, conferences, vacations) in other countries ( or cities) she wants to attend.
So this young female is thinking that if she opens her house to fellow bloggers ( after following the guidelines) when they are looking for a place to stay in Copenhagen or Denmark - maybe some other bloggers will open their house to her ( or other bloggers again) in other countries - that's the idea. This is how we are going to try out if it works in practice.
A quick look of the site shows that fellow bloggers may help you out if you are going to San Francisco and other places in the US. Europe is much less represented, e.g., in France it's only Lyon and in Ireland - in Limerick and Wicklow. Dublin's not on the list, though.
Can someone in Dublin offer a place to stay overnight this Saturday night? Actually, this post probably came to be too late to help us but this initiative is good to spread a word about anyway. We should put Galway on its list, too. What do you think?
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2007-04-21 @ 23:27 I really enjoyed your talk (just in case you remember, I asked you a question about microformats), it helped me get a better understanding of the semantic web. I feel more inclined to start digging in the literature that I felt before!
Thanks very much!
(Aidan Finn told me the SIOC module for Drupal is a bit shaky, is it actually usable?)
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2007-04-23 @ 00:58 Was great to meet you again! And we did make it to the train in time, barely so. Sorry that we could not stay and chat longer, hopefully next time will be more relaxed.
You can also find some BarCamp photos at:
http://flickr.com/photos/captsolo/sets/
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2007-04-27 @ 00:31 Thanks for the feedback and the questions you asked at the talk, I really enjoyed presenting it. :) Foundations of the Semantic Web are simple and powerful, and we need show and tell that more. To let people know what they can use it for.
When digging in the literature keep in mind that one of the best ways of learning is by doing. Start exploring and you will learn a lot. If you have any questions, feel free to email me or ask on the SIOC-Dev mailing list.
Some useful resources:
- Semantic Web FAQ
- Podcast: Nova Spivack about Web 3.0 and more
- Podcast: Tim Berners-Lee interview at ISWC'2005 (in Galway, Ireland)
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2007-04-27 @ 15:52 Like many open-source projects (SIOC project and its Drupal, Wordpress, ... modules are all open source) SIOC module development is demand-driven. The more people use it, the more feedback and suggestions they send, the better it gets. (Some just code the improvements and send them in).
Drupal module needs more users that say what is needed. Try it and tell on the mailing list what else you need. One thing I know is that it currently exports the posts made by the Blog module, but not by the Story module (which you and Aidan are using).
Here you can see some information expored by Drupal (follow rdfs:seeAlso links to see more data):
- SIOC data from the Drupal module on sioc-project.org
In summary: SIOC plugin for Drupal is not shaky (it works), but it does not cover all possibly content modules. Shall we call it "patchy"? ;) With more user demand it will get better.
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2007-04-27 @ 16:31 The drupal SIOC plugin currently assumes that you are using the blog module for posting whereas if you are running a single-user site like yours or mine you are probably using the story module. There are many ways to use and organize content with Drupal and not all of them are covered by the current module. Hopefully I will get a chance to work on this over the coming weeks.
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2007-04-27 @ 16:38
