First Toronto Semantic Web Meetup

About two months ago, I started a Toronto Semantic Web Meetup group, and today we have 43 members. Our first meeting will focus on networking and a bit of “Semantics 101”, presented by Greg Boutin, Founding Partner of Growthroute Ventures. Greg blogs at Semantics Incorporated and is a regular Member of the monthly Semantic Web Gang podcast. The meeting is being held on Wednesday May 27th at 6PM at the offices of Xtreme Labs on 67 Yonge Street, 16th floor. That’s the top floor of that building, and we have access to the terrace which offers a view of Lake Ontario (and the traffic on the QEW).

This meetup is also part of other global meetups. Marco Neuman who runs the NY and San Francisco Semantic Web meetups as well as the excellent Wiki that supports all these groups has been a great champion and catalyst for this community. He’s also running the “Meetup of Meetups” in San Jose next month during the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.

Echoing Fabien Tiburce’s (another Semantic Web Toronto supporter who started the LinkedIn group on same topic) post a few days ago, “Evangelists, The Semantic Web Needs You”, this is a call to action to all Greater Toronto Area users, developers, evangelists, early adopters, entrepreneurs, hackers and venture capitalists who are interested in the emerging Semantic Web and its potential evolution.

We’d like to hear from you. Even better, we’d like to meet you! Join us next Wednesday.

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