It will be here before we know it? Has anyone heard what's happening in 2010? I think I could certainly help and would love to have everyone get together at my hotel. Very easy to do.

ad-hoc meetup discussion with Meet Emil Eifrém CEO Neo Technology, founder of the Neo4j graph database project and CEO of Neo Technology. Programmer by passion the first 15 years on this planet and by passion & profession the remaining 15. First free software project at age 16. Now mainly focused on spreading the word about the powers of graphs and preaching the demise of tabular solutions everywhere. Presents regularly at conferences such as JAO... [read more]

Since I could not make it to the conference I have uploaded my presentation (Demo) on my blog site: http://gnowgi.org/2009/10/25/gnowsys-mode-for-semantic-web/ Your comments will be appreciated.

This is a discussion thread for males wishing to share a hotel room at the conference. Please leave a comment if you're interested in sharing a room. The registration discount applies to both parties sharing a room at Westfields.

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Rahul Parundekar: I am planning to book a room for 2 nights (Check in 27th and Check out 29th). Being a student I wanted the room fare to be as low as possible. I found two hotels nearby(within half a mile) - Extended stay america (119$ per day 2 Queen sized beds) and... [read more]

Eric Wolf: I'm staying at the Best Western, checking in the 23rd and out the 30th. Can get a double. It's about $90/night. Will have a car the entire conference. 45440 Holiday Dr Sterling, VA 20166

Nagarjuna G: I am not able to attend the conference due to roadblocks in obtaining visa from India. Reasons explained in my blog here: http://gnowgi.org/2009/10/02/usvisab/. Hope to catch you with you at some other conference, hopefully next year. Do write and up... [read more]

Looking forward to Pat's keynote address. Anyone doing a live feed would be helpful.

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oshanis: I will be staying at the ALOFT [1], 22390 Flagstaff Plaza, Ashburn, Virginia 20148. This hotel is about 12 miles north of the conference venue. I am interested in sharing rides to and from the conference venue. Let me know if you are staying at the s... [read more]

Eric Wolf: I'm now staying at the Best Western - 45440 Holiday Dr Sterling, VA 20166 - right around the corner from Aloft. Will have a rental car the duration.

Olaf Hartig: I'll stay at the Hampton Inn Washington-Dulles Airport South Hotel (4050 Westfax Dr, Chantilly, VA 2015). Anyone else at this place? Want to share a taxi each day or do you have a rental car?

We've just published our programme on our website at http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009 You can have a read of our papers before the workshop on Sunday. Also, our keynote will be given by Meena Nagarajan from Wright State. The title of her keynote is "Understanding and Exploiting Social Data - What, Why and How People Write on Social Media". We look forward to meeting you at ISWC 2009! John. --

Anyone else planning to attend VoCamp[1]? I'll be checking out of my hotel (Aloft[2]) on the 30th, returning my rental car, and making my way downtown. I'll be staying at the Capitol Skyline [3] and have room to share (double beds, about $100/night) [1] http://vocamp.org/wiki/NeoGeoVoCampOctober2009 [2] http://bit.ly/ev1oG [3] http://www.capitolskyline.com/index.cfm

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Jessica: I've already booked a place at the crown plaza dulles and while the price is reasonable enough for me handle alone a female who would like to share is welcome. http://www.cpdulles.com/ Cheers!

oshanis: Looking for a female to share a room at Aloft Dulles North: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3140 Will be staying at this hotel from Oct 24-30. Price (including taxes) was $138.23/night Email me (oshan... [read more]