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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

Open Source Xopus's Dead?

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Lon announced that he will close the mailinglist for the Open Source version of Xopus, a WYSIWYG XML editor. Also, an initiative to start again development on OS Xopus did not seem to find any contributors. So it seems like OS Xopus is dead.

On the other hand, Bitfluxeditor Next Generation is well ahead and with the PHP documentation group in favour of using Bitfluxeditor NG, a growing developer community might emerge around this Open Source WYSIWYG XML editor.

Lon’s mail to the list (excerpt):

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:06:10 +0200
Subject:RE: [xopus] Re: Xopus proposal

[snip]

I propose to close this mailing list down as it has lost it’s original
meaning and as long as there is no open source activity for the Xopus
project.
If there are no serious objections I will stop this mailing list.

[snip]

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.

LinuxTag 2003: Open Office 1.1beta2 and DocBook

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Volker John just arrived at LinuxTag. We started talking about our installer and Conesys, then Christian Egli popped in and asked a question about my Open Office Doc Book tutorial. While discussing a solution to the problem, Volker pointed me to his presentation Using Open Office for ETDs. There you’ll find some more infos on using DocBook in Open Office. Finally, Christian and Volker started their engines (notebooks) and started playing with OOo.

That’s what I love about LinuxTag: people meet, people solve concrete problems, on the spot, find new infos, learn some more – and enjoy the great atmosphere.

UPDATE:

Note that my tutorial is about 1.1beta1, Volker’s about 1.1beta2 which is easier to handle in respect to DocBook.