11.06
I got some good pictures from Portuguese guys mowing a huge lawn with tiny electrical lawnmowers and made an evil picture of Claus…
ODBase 2009 and OnTheMove conference was actually really horrible, scientific as well as organisational.
There were about 6 authors, which didn’t show up to present their work. This was only in the sessions I attended, I have heard that there were even more missing in other sessions. The other contributions had a mixed quality, from good to bad, but they can not be compared to the quality of ISWC. When I gave my talk there were about 15 people. Probably, most of the missing authors were scared away by the expensive conference fee (645 euros). Together with the other attendants, I met there, we wondered, where this money actually went. There was no lunch or any other kind of food during the whole conference. At the 2 social occasions the hotel actually stopped serving drinks at 10 pm, so they were both very short. There are several other points of critique left, but I won’t mention them here. I can only recommend not to submit anything to ODBase, as the conference was not worth attending.
On Monday, we will meet with guys from CENTRIA in Lisbon to have a short SemanticWeb workshop.
Nevertheless,I found some nice pictures to take:
