Sebastian Schaffert

The second week of September, we had our “last mile” programming and documentation camp in Salzburg in preparation of the upcoming KiWi 1.0 release (14th October 2010). 10 developers stuffed together in a very small room for a whole week, eating Pizza and drinking coffee – sounds like the stuff for nerds and geeks.:-) But [...]

March is time for KiWi annual meetings. This year’s meeting took place from 10th-12th March in Mattsee close to Salzburg, again at a very nice location. The Annual Meeting was focussing primarily on the use cases (which are supposed to start with evaluation now) and the dissemination and exploitation activities (which now go into the [...]

Social Media are one of the revolutionary trends of our time. Up till now, they have been largely driven by practitioners. Research on the field has been either computer science or social sciences and is mainly observing the trend without taking really part. One could argue that this is a good thing, but as a researcher [...]

Development activity in the last months has been so active that we didn’t manage to issue a KiWi release of acceptable stability. Now we are very proud to announce the availability of the next prototype prerelease! The changes and new features are too abundant to name them all (you can get a list of fixed [...]

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After the KiWi Meeting, Georg and I participated for the first time at the Future Internet Assembly, as representatives of the KiWi project and of our company. The conference took place in Kista Science City at the premises of Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), which are very nice buildings indeed. The first day started with introductions [...]