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> On Sep 27, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Ellison Anne Williams <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I will be giving an Intro to Pirk talk at ApacheCon - see below. I will > tweet it out on @ApachePirk in a couple of weeks. Are any other committers > planning to attend the conference? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Apache Big Data Europe 2016 <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:20 PM > Subject: Apache Big Data Europe 2016: Talk accepted! > To: [email protected] > > > Hi Ellison Anne Williams, > > Congratulations, and welcome to Apache: Big Data Europe! Your submission, > "Scalable Private Information Retrieval äóî Introducing Apache Pirk > (incubating)", has been accepted. We are thrilled to have you present at > the conference taking place November 14-16, 2016 at the Melia Sevilla in > Seville, Spain. 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