[VoCamp Discuss] VoCamp Baltimore/Washington DC

Wed Apr 8 16:52:10 PDT 2009

One obvious time to do this would be either after or before the
International Semantic Web conference this year in DC:

http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Mike Lang Jr. <mikelangjr at revelytix.com>wrote:

> Juan,
> Thanks for the heads up.  Liz and I are both members of the Washington
> Semantic Web Meetup group, so we have been in contact about the proposed
> VoCamp.  Liz started a google group,
> http://groups.google.com/group/vocampdc, if you are interested in keeping
> up with our planning.  We will also be sure to update the VoCamp wiki as we
> get some more plans solidified.
>
> Mike Lang
> Revelytix, Inc.
>
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> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Juan Sequeda <juanfederico at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody
>>
>> Liz Pruszko from Phase 2 Technology was at our VoCamp in Austin. Phase 2
>> Technology has developed all the Open Calais plugins for Drupal, and they
>> are in the DC area. She was talking about organizing a VoCamp there to. So
>> you should all hook up and organize this!
>>
>> Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
>> Dept. of Computer Sciences
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>> www.juansequeda.com
>> www.semanticwebaustin.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Tom Heath <tom.heath at talis.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> This sounds like a great idea. I know that Ed Summers from the LoC has
>>> expressed an interest in running a VoCamp in Washington D.C. in the
>>> time around ISWC2009 [1], so there may be an opportunity for
>>> collaboration there (I think Ed is on this list). I'll be in DC for
>>> ISWC2009 so certainly hope to attend any VoCamps in the area at that
>>> time, although of course that shouldn't stop you from organising
>>> something sooner if the opportunity arises :)
>>>
>>> In terms of other activity on the east coast, a VoCamp in NYC has also
>>> been proposed by Christine Connors and Marco Neumann. July was floated
>>> as a possible date IIRC.
>>>
>>> HTH. Please do keep us all posted on how plans develop, and just ask
>>> (on or off-list) if you'd like any input.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tom.
>>>
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>>>
>>> [1] http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/4/7 Mike Lang Jr. <mikelangjr at revelytix.com>:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> > I am interested in hosting a VoCamp in Maryland, either in Baltimore or
>>> > closer to Washington, D.C. (perhaps both if there is enough interest).
>>>  I
>>> > figured the first thing I should do is contact this list and see if
>>> anyone
>>> > is interested in attending or even in helping to organize/plan.
>>> > As an introduction, my name is Mike Lang, I work for a semantic
>>> technology
>>> > company called Revelytix (creators of Knoodl.com) which is
>>> headquartered in
>>> > Hunt Valley, MD, about 15 minutes north of Baltimore city.  I wear
>>> several
>>> > hats at Revelytix, one of which is lead ontologist for any projects we
>>> work
>>> > on.  I am not currently working on any vocabularies of my own but am
>>> > interested in meeting people around the area who are working on them
>>> and are
>>> > interested in semantics in general.
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Mike Lang
>>> > Revelytix, Inc.
>>> >
>>> > phone: 410-584-0009 (office)
>>> >           443-928-3782 (cell)
>>> > skype: michael.allen.lang.jr
>>> > aim: MikeJrRevelytix
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