WebCamp

Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #7

20080403a.png It's been three months since my last round-up of all things SIOC-ed, so here is entry number seven in the series:

BlogTalk 2008 Summary

Well, I've been on a well-deserved break (in my opinion anyway!) for the past two weeks so it's time that I caught up with all the stuff I've only been tweeting about in the meantime...

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Picture by Paul Downey.

WebCamp SNP and BlogTalk 2008 approacheth...

I'm in Cork with a posse of eight from DERI, and it's the night before two co-located events: the WebCamp workshop on social network portability (Sunday) and the BlogTalk conference on social software (Monday, Tuesday).

Congratulations to WebCamp India!

The first WebCamp event in India was held yesterday in Chennai. By all accounts it went very well, and congratulations to organiser Prahbu on its success! It sounds like there are more Indian WebCamp events in the pipeline as well...

Five days left to register online for BlogTalk 2008!

Please note that online registration for BlogTalk 2008 (and WebCamp Social Network Portability) will close next Wednesday, 26th February 2008.

You can register at Amiando.

Programme announced for BlogTalk 2008

We recently announced the programme schedule for the 5th International Conference on Social Software (and the co-located workshop on social network portability), to be held in Cork in six weeks time. We have an interesting set of keynote speakers and invited panellists so far (with one keynote to be confirmed).

First WebCamp to be held in India (on Web Frameworks for the present and the future)

20080108a.png I'm happy to say that the first WebCamp event in India will be held next month. It is being organised by Prahbu Subramanian, who previously ran the successful PipesCamp event in Chennai last year.

DataPortability.org, web standards, SIOC and FOAF

Leo Sauermann has written an e-mail to the public DataPortability.org mailing list suggesting that the DataPortability.org initiative also takes W3C's web standards like RDF into account, as well as considering existing efforts like FOAF and SIOC for data port

Opening up the social graph at the WebCamp workshop on "social network portability"

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A WebCamp "Social Network Portability" workshop has been announced to be co-located with BlogTalk on 2nd March 2008. You can view the wiki page for this event.