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UKUUG: I'm there

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Just arrived at UKUUG Linux 2003 conference in Edinburgh. I intend to blog some of the sessions I will attend. The first one will be Jon’s talk. So keep coming back to my blog because I will add some reports from time to time, until the conference closes on Sunday.

Upon registration, I of course received the famous conference bag with many sponsor ads. To my suprise, I also found a printed copy of a Samba 3.0 How-To. Good idea, thanks!

Fortunately, I had some time to do some sight-seeing in Edinburgh yesterday, which is – of course – a great city, as I have now been able to experience on my own.

As far as I have seen, the UKUUG conference Web site does not provide trackback links for each session – maybe next time for the winter conference? Then bloggers could reference single sessions. Apropos conferences and trackbacks: O’Reilly’s OSCON Web site provided trackback links, so maybe it will become a common place soon for any conference Web site – which would really make sense.

Sandro talks about the Semantic Web at DRH 2003 Conference

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I got invited to the DRH 2003 Conference to provide a presentation on Managing the Semantic Web. The conference takes place from August 31 – September 3, my talk is scheduled at Tuesday, September 2.

UPDATE: Due to some urgent work for a customer, I had to cancel my talk at DRH 2003. Also Peter from DAASI did not have time to go there instead of mine. It’s a pitty because I was looking forward to the conference very much.

LinuxTag 2003: Wez Furlong on ZZ/OSS Installer

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Here at LinuxTag, I presented our installer to Wez Furlong, who is very much involved in the PHP development. Wez himself had the idea of implementing an installer, so I showed him what we did.

In general, he really likes the ZZ/OSS Installer.

He proposed the following optimizations:

– preparsing XML in actual release of an application to spare time while executing e.g. dependencies resolving
– run package config command line to read parameters of applications installed on the Operating System

His reservations were:
– it’s GPL
– it’s relatively large (many files) and has a high memory footprint due to the XML parsing

LinuxTag 2003: Lukas Smith on ZZ/OSS Installer

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Lukas sits next to me right now at LinuxTag, had a look at our installer and … he likes it! Now he will evaluate it once he’s back in Berlin and check out, how to use it for his projects. “ZZ/OSS Installer is really a product that many people have already been requesting on the PEAR developer mailinglist. It solves the problems of installing and updating modular applications on package basis”.

UPDATE:

By the way, Lukas is a member of the PEAR development group. He is the lead developer of PEAR::MDB.

sinn03 Conference

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The SINN03 conference [1] on

Worldwide Coherent Workforce, Satisfied Users

– New Services For Scientific Information –
will take place in Oldenburg (Germany) from September 17th till 19th 2003.
This conference will cover methods of the management and maintenance of scientific information by a worldwide and distributed but coherent workforce. This includes the usage of novel and innovative tools as well as of services which have the objective to satisfy the users. The emphasis is on addressing the obstacles and challenges with distributed workforce for the service side and of outreach to the users and their satisfaction on the customers side.

The conference is divided into following thematic sessions (provisional):

  • Session 1: The Future of PhysNet
  • Session 2: Networking of Configurable Robots, Summarizing and Brokerage
  • Session 3: Distributed Open Document-Archives
  • Session 4: Distributed Open eLearning Sources and Systems
  • Session 5: Novel Tools for Distributed Services
  • Session 6: User Outreach and Statisfaction Measurement
  • Session 7: Coherent Realization and Political Impact
  • Podiums Discussion: Distributed vs. Centralized Systems:
    Funding and Maintenance of International Services

[1] http://www.isn-oldenburg.de/projects/SINN/sinn03/index.html

OSCOM 3: CMS Users Panel

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David Weinberger’s notes [1] on the CMS users panel at OSCOM 3:

“Then Dave Winer sparked controversy – shocking, I tell you! – by saying that it’s like the early days of word processing when everything was hard and expensive. It shouldn’t be as technical as it is. It really should be a $200 solution, he said, that does the 80% of what actually needs to be done.

Hmm. I don’t think the users on the panel could get what they need in that 80%. They’re not looking for a desktop application like word processing. To them, CMS is a system, and it does something complex that will only get more complex.”

[1] http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/001568.html