SMWCon Spring 2013

The Spring 2013 SMWCon was held March 20-22 in New York City. SMWCon is a twice-yearly event for users and developers of Semantic MediaWiki.

Location
The Spring 2013 SMWCon was held at the ITP, or the Interactive Telecommunications Program, a department of New York University, in New York City, in the United States. ITP is located at 721 Broadway, between Washington Pl. and Waverly Pl., in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood.

ITP is a graduate program focused on a multi-disciplinary approach to communication technology; they describe themselves as "a center for the recently possible."

Talk proposals
Since the program is finalized in the previous section, we are not looking for new talks at this time. If you want to give a talk, you can still sign up and add your name, the title of your talk and a short description to the Lightning Talk section.

Wish-list for Topics
If there is anything you would like to see or hear about during the conference, add it to this list:


 * The SMW roadmap
 * The documentation and promotion of SMW
 * Triple stores
 * Design and implementation of SMW Javascript including libraries and API
 * Maybe a useful start? https://raw.github.com/cariaso/smwcon2012bots/master/lang/javascript/bot1.html
 * noSQLStore4? - using MongoDB to store semantic data alongside Mediawiki relational DB
 * Folding in select SMW+ extensions into main SMW development
 * New ideas for Semantic Result Formats (tiled view - Masonry plugin, advanced timeline - cf Facebook).
 * Add your idea here...

Attendee list
The Confirmed attendee list can be found on Eventbrite.

Accommodations
Those planning to attend SMWCon should consider reserving a room as soon as possible, since hotels in Manhattan can sometimes get filled up quickly. The following are all moderately-priced hotels and hostels in the area around ITP:
 * The Bowery House, 220 Bowery (12 minute walk)
 * Chelsea Star Hotel, 300 West 30th St. (35 minute walk, 16 minutes by subway)
 * The Jane Hotel, 113 Jane St. (25 minute walk, 21 minutes by subway)

If you wish to share a hotel room with other attendees, or to stay with a local attendee, in order to save on costs, please add your name below.

Tuesday night gathering
There is a get-together for drinks being organized on Tuesday night, the night before SMWCon starts, by Doug Beeson; to join, please write him at dbeeson@videotron.ca.

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the support of the following organizations:
 * NYU-ITP
 * WikiWorks
 * Wikidata project
 * Lotico
 * Ontodia
 * and the great SMW community!