{"id":1883,"date":"2007-05-26T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T15:47:39","slug":"webinale-07-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leobard.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/webinale-07-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinale 07 wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I attended the webinale 07<\/a> conference, which circles around Web technologies. \"seemespeakat_webinale07\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There were a lot of talks<\/a>, where most of them had the word ajax in their title. Some of the talks where by experts on general topics, such as rapid prototyping, or by experts on very specific topics, such as their own product. I never heard anything uninteresting. It was a great place to socialize and to find possible vendors and customers<\/b>. Even I, the semantic-web-is-no-business-yet freak, had some interesting lunchbreak meetings. Two students with whom I worked were also there, by chance.<\/p>\n

The social event on tuesday evening – dubbed “webinale at night” – was organized perfectly, good food, professional DJ, enough alcohol. Only the rule of “have 50% women at an event” was severly broken, we need more<\/a> women in<\/a> information<\/a> business and<\/a> sci<\/a>ence<\/a>. Very positive on the social event: no boring speech before the buffet was opened, it was all socializing.<\/p>\n

My own talk was about – Semantic Desktop. I included a few slides about RDF and triples and RDFS and how simple and restful everything is up front, a one minute crash-course in Semantic Web. They are not perfect, but good enough to kickstart a few brains out there to think about the future of their data. Nepomuk was trimmed down to one slide this time, and I skipped most of the gnowsis slides while presenting. Maybe someone took pictures of my talk, add comments here if you did…<\/p>\n

My slides are for download here:<\/p>\n