Meetup at the Semantic Technology Conference 2010 in San Francisco

This year our Alliance Semantic Web meetup event will take place at the Semantic Technology Conference 2010 in San Francisco. Come and meet your peers to discuss all things Semantic Web, Web 3.0 and Linked Data to make the Web of Data a reality. It took more than 10 years to get the Semantic Web initiative where it is today and we have good reason to believe that it's about time to hit the mainstream web. This I believe will not happen without friction since the standards in the Semantic Web initiative are geared towards a more academic audience rather than web practitioners. With the growing adoption in the mainstream community this might require some minor review of some recommendations, additional training documentation and more tools for development. So it's interesting times again, I hope to see you in San Francisco this summer.

Participating Meetup groups (4445 members)

Atlanta - Austin - Cambridge - Chicago - Frankfurt - Central Florida - London - Los Angeles - Munich - New York - Philadelphia - Oslo - Ottawa - Princeton - San Diego - San Francisco - Seattle - Silicon Valley - Thessaloniki - Toronto - Vancouver - Vienna - Washington DC

Proposed Sessions

Monday	June 21	Pre-conference Day	Semantic Code Camp 2010
Tuesday	June 22	First Conference Day	Big Meetup Social
Wednesday	June 23	Second Conference Day	Semantic Social Networks - Meetup Ontology (or on June 23)
Thursday	June 24	Third Conference Day	Incentives & Roadblocks for Participating in the Semantic Web (or on June 22)
Friday	June 25	Fourth Conference Day	LODE: Linking Open Descriptions of Events

Proposed Session Overview

Incentives & Roadblocks for Participating in the Semantic Web - Griffin Caprio

Semantic Code Camp 2010 - Shamod Lacoul

Big Meetup Social 2010 - Marco Neumann