eeek! s/Valentino/Valentina 2009/1/23 Danny Ayers <[email protected]>: > PS. The mighty capable organizers, Aldo and Valentino, got an art > exhibition co-located with the conference. Getting a bit of culture in > there was brilliant :-) > > 2009/1/23 Danny Ayers <[email protected]>: >> Somewhat late, but maybe useful for someone: >> >> At the Italian semweb conference SWAP 2008 [1] I did a tutorial, about >> 15-20 attendees. >> >> The first half, a presentation was straightforward and I think >> functional, I used a cut-down & tweaked version [2] of the slides >> ChrisB & co. used in Karlsruhe. >> >> The second half hands-on would have been a major embarrassment had it >> not been for danbri. I wasn't sure of the demographic, so had decided >> to play it by ear, something using FOAF. The night before it occurred >> to me to set up ftp on my server so people could actually publish >> stuff...after several hours I had no joy on the admin. Then I thought >> it would be *much* neater to set things up for POSTing stuff to the >> server via HTTP. Naturally I didn't get my Apache config sorted in >> time. >> >> My fallback was ssh. Which didn't work on the venue's network. >> >> Dan bailed me out by suggesting the use of a Wiki for upload, and he >> had an ARC install to play with, so the session basically turned into >> a SPARQL tutorial. It was rather clumsy - e.g. I was using the >> computer in the venue, Windows XP and IE are not friendly to even >> things like text editing. >> >> Lessons learnt: mostly preparation might have helped :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Danny. >> >> [1] http://www.swapconf.it/2008 >> [2] http://www.swapconf.it/2008/tutorial_day.php >> >> -- >> http://danny.ayers.name >> > > > > -- > http://danny.ayers.name >
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