Presentation round

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

Hi all!

Now we're 14 members on the Perl/RDF list, which is a good start, and 
supposedly a good number to start to get to know each other. So I 
figured we could do a little presentation round. Let me start: 

My name is Kjetil Kjernsmo, which is hard to pronounce, so I usually 
respond to anything that sounds like it starts with a k, and I'm 
originally an astrophysicist of education. I bumped into danbri, whom 
I'm sure you all know, back in 1998, and he quickly got me interested 
in RDF and the Semantic Web. But since my studies brought me in an 
entirely different direction, it took quite a while before I started 
doing anything with it.

I started working for Opera in 2005, as a dev on my.opera.com, which is 
Perl-based. Eventually got to do some small semweb things with it, and 
now I'm half-time Semantic Web Specialist. Trying to figure out what 
Opera should do with it and if there are any good business cases for 
the company.

I'm also in the W3C groups WCL (soon to be POWDER), the SWEO and SWD, 
though my engagement in the latter is very limited. 

I'd like to do things on my spare time too. I started this Community 
Projects thing with the SWEO, and my project proposal there, 
Whitelisting with FOAF, 
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/FOAFWhitelisting
is something I'll probably do in my spare time.

You'll also find me on IRC as kjetilk.

And, oh, you'll find that a bunch of the geeks in here refer to 
themselves as dahuts. I'm one of them. 

Cheers,

Kjetil
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