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                  Call for Participation and Contributions

                      Pike Conference 2002 - Aug 22-24

                          Pike and the Semantic Web

RISE, the Research Center for Integrational Software Engineering, Linköping
University (http://www.ida.liu.se/~rise/), has agreed to take over hosting,
development, and maintenance of Pike, formerly at Roxen Internet Software
AB. Pike is a second generation Java-like language, has a fast and reliable
implementation, many killer applications, and a well running open source
development community (http://pike.ida.liu.se/). Pike runs on most flavours
of Unix, on the Win32 platform and MacOS X.

Besides maintaining Pike a fast and reliable platform as it has been in the
past, a main RISE goal is to make it the first scripting language for the
Semantic Web. As a language, Pike is much better suited for the Semantic Web
than Java or C#, since it provides multiple inheritance, sets, relations, and
dynamic arrays. A second goal is to embed software composition technology into
Pike. In the long run, Pike will be extended with modern concepts such as
connectors or aspects. This way, Pike will strengthen the RISE center, whose
mission is to develop practical composition and integration technology for
software components.

During August 22-24, 2002, RISE will host the next Pike User Group Meeting in
Linköping (http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2002/). RISE invites the Pike
programmers all over the world to come to Linköping and hear more about these
exciting perspectives.

The meeting with the focus topic "Pike and the Semantic Web" will reveal more
about the future strategy of Pike.

- There will be workshops/discussions on various topics.

- There will be an opportunity for people to present papers on relevant topics,
   give short presentations of projects etc. (Papers, abstracts and other
   material should be submitted in advance so we can schedule them properly.
   The tentative deadline is July 31 for such submissions.)

- A small fee will be charged for participation, to cover the expenses for
   organising the conference. The fee has not yet been determined, but will be
   something like 20-30 Euro.

Read more about it on http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2002/. Welcome to
Linköping!

Your Pike people at IDA


Uwe Assmann, Marcus Comstedt, Martin Nilsson, Johan Sundström, Leif Stensson.