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Whether you're a beginner in Linux or an advanced user, the installfest organized next Saturday 17th by the local LUG will definitely be of great interest to you! Come along with or without your machine, at DERI, Dangan - see map - from 10am to 1pm.

This date coincides with the worldwide installfest Mandriva coordinates:

In order to celebrate Mandriva Linux 2008, to bring Linux to new users and present the new features available in the new release, Mandriva would like to coordinate a worldwide Install fest on November 17th, 2007.

Many Linux flavours will be covered: Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Redhat, Smoothwall, IPCop. There will be talks as well about tomsrtbt, knoppix...

17th of September in Galway: the temperature has been very low since this morning. It's late at night and I am heading to town to catch the bus to Dublin. It's so cold!

I started at DERI on the 1st of August where I am studying towards a masters degree in Semantic web.

I will be working with Axel Polleres for the inContext project. Funded by the European Union, this project aims at reasoning about context:

inContext will develop a novel scientific approach focused on a new blend of human collaboration and service-oriented systems that explores two basic research strands:
1. efficient and effective support for human interactions and collaboration in various teams through dynamically aggregated software services;
2. use of human-to-human or human-to-service interactions in applying intelligent mining and learning algorithms that can detect interaction patterns for pro-active service aggregation.