[kNews] Kendra Working Meetings, Prototype, Celebrities,

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Dear All,

Hope this newsletter finds you in good spirit and good health. Kendra 
continues to make its way...
 

1. Prototype Kendra Base semantic demo goes online
2. Weekly Kendra Team meetings in central London
3. Funding needed
4. Celebrities getting closer

1. PROTOTYPE KENDRA BASE SEMANTIC DEMO GOES ONLINE

To reach our goal of an open content marketplace requires interoperability 
within all links of the content value chain. To get interoperability all 
participants, in the chain, need to describe their information and business 
practices in a highly structured way. It became clear that current 
collaboration design tools, like email, wikis and blogs, don't enable 
really structured descriptions. So, we've been developing our own, based on 
semantic web* ideas.
 

Please do take a look at our early demonstration and provide us with 
feedback here:
 

http://dev1.kendra.org.uk

* The "semantic web" is the next generation Internet being developed by Tim 
Berners-Lee's W3C - the people that bring you HTML and XML standards.
 

2. WEEKLY KENDRA TEAM MEETINGS IN CENTRAL LONDON

Want to contribute and be part of Kendra Team? Come along to our weekly 
Kendra Team working meetings in central London. From 10.30 am to lunchtime. 
The next few are on Wednesday 22/09/2004, Monday 27/09/2004 and Wednesday 
06/10/2004. Please register in advance so we can choose suitable venues. 
Information on future meetings and how to register here:
 

http://www.kendra.org.uk/meetings.php#future-meetings

If you can't make these meetings then join us on the mailing lists and the 
wiki.
 

3. FUNDING NEEDED

Developing the Kendra Base prototype costs money. We are having to pay 
developers to build it. We need more money to continue the effort. So, dig 
deep and get in touch.
 

4. CELEBRITIES GETTING CLOSER

Or perhaps we're getting closer to them. Either way emails have been sent 
and action is being taken to gather celebrities to endorse Kendra 
Initiative. Having well known people endorse our project will put us more 
in the industry and public eye - which can only be good. If you are or know 
a celebrity then help us promote Kendra to the wider world. See:
 

http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?Celebrities

Thanks for reading.

Cheers Daniel

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