[foaf-dev] 2nd CfP: Hacking RDF with Perl Hackathon in Oslo, Norway, April 19th-21st 2010.

[Kingsley Idehen]

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> All,
>
> We are proud to announce the first International Hacking RDF with Perl 
> Hackathon in Oslo in Norway from the 19th to the 21st of April 2010. Note 
> that we have moved the event to Oslo from Geilo and that it is now a pure 
> Perl+RDF hacking event.
>
> These prominent Perl hackers are leading the event:
>
> Gregory Todd Williams is the author of RDF::Trine and RDF::Query. He is a 
> Ph.D. student at the Tetherless World Constellation group at the Rensselaer 
> Polytechnic Institute and a prominent member of the SPARQL Working Group, 
> where he is the editor of SPARQL 1.1 Service Description.
>
> Toby Inkster is the author of a large number of RDF-related Perl modules on 
> CPAN, including RDFa parsers, HTML5 microdata parsers, FOAF+SSL 
> authentication modules, etc. He is also a co- inventor of the FOAF+SSL 
> protocol.
>
> Kjetil Kjernsmo is the local organiser, and has been following the RDF 
> world since 1998. He prefers to write in Perl and has a few relevant 
> modules on CPAN including RDF::RDFa::Template. While a member of the 
> Semantic Web Education and Outreach IG, he took the initiative to the 
> Community Projects, that lead to the Linked Open Data project. He has also 
> been a member of the POWDER and SPARQL WGs.
>
> The hackathon will convene at 13:00 local time on Monday 19th of April and 
> run through Wednesday 21st of April. The venue is the offices of ABC 
> Startsiden with the address Sagveien 21a.
>
> We will identify a number of subjects that would be interesting to hack on 
> leading up to the event. The discussion will take place on the perlrdf 
> mailing list, see http://lists.perlrdf.org/listinfo/dev , please add 
> yourself and see prior posts in the archives.
>
> The current concensus centers around:
>
>     * RDFS reasoning
>     * ACL-protected subclass of RDF::Trine::Store based on RDF::ACL.
>     * Finish RDF::Endpoint.
>     * Use FOAF+SSL to limit access to data on the endpoint using RDF::ACL.
>
> Further topics are welcomed and the agenda will be adjusted according to 
> wishes of the participants.
>
> Participants will need to organize transportation and accomodation for 
> themselves, but there is no conference fee.
>
> Please state your interest by sending me an email.
>
> Best,
>
> Kjetil
>   
Kjetil,

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