Local Industry and Researchers Gather

Last night was the monthly gathering of the Moncton area knowledge and IT industry, hosted by Mount Allison University’s research services. I really enjoyed Bruce Robertson’s presentation on his work with the semantic web, and more specifically the Historical Event Markup and Linking Project. It’s great to know a professor of Classics who also runs his own Linux server.

Another event of note that was announced last night is the free Ruby on Rails workshop to be held in Moncton on 10 Oct 2007, to be followed by a two-day training session. The host, Spheric, is a local company that has embraced open source development applications in order to better grow its business and offer enterprise-level software.