Semantic Web Meetups Come to Seattle
Last week I read about the first Semantic Web meetup in Vancouver, BC organized by Melanie Courtot. I started wondering why we don’t have something similar down here in Seattle given all the folks in the start up arena, academia, and the larger corporate world all working on things involving the word “semantic.” I was chatting w/ Neil, our CEO here at Evri, and he mentioned that Alex Iskold, Founder/CEO of Adaptive Blue and feature writer for ReadWriteWeb, was going to be in town on May 6th; Alex was interested in presenting to a meetup group if there was one. We said, well no, there isn’t one, but lets try to get one together. So, inspired by Melanie, I was just about to create a meetup group on meetup.com, when I got a notice telling me that one had, only moments before, been created by Jillian McRae. Jillian was interested in getting the semantic community together, as well as meeting up with folks heading down to SemTech 2009 in June. So I joined the group, contacted Jillian, and explained the sequence of events. Jillian replied, “Serendipitous!” So there you have it folks, a swirling nexus of events due to lots of excitement over all things semantic. Come to our first meetup of soggy Seattlites now Semantically Webbed — mingle with folks, drink some, eat some, and listen to Alex present on Get Glue and other semantic tech. All the details are HERE.