This might interest the Cassandra community. ------------- Sincerely, David G. Boney dbon...@semanticartifacts.com http://www.semanticartifacts.com
Begin forwarded message: > From: Isabel Drost <isa...@apache.org> > Date: January 25, 2011 2:53:28 PM CST > To: u...@mahout.apache.org > Cc: gene...@lucene.apache.org, gene...@hadoop.apache.org, > u...@hbase.apache.org, solr-u...@lucene.apache.org, > java-u...@lucene.apache.org, u...@nutch.apache.org > Subject: CFP - Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - Search, Score, Scale > Reply-To: u...@mahout.apache.org > Reply-To: isa...@apache.org > > This is to announce the Berlin Buzzwords 2011. The second edition of the > successful conference on scalable and open search, data processing and data > storage in Germany, taking place in Berlin. > > Call for Presentations Berlin Buzzwords > http://berlinbuzzwords.de > Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - Search, Store, Scale > 6/7 June 2011 > The event will comprise presentations on scalable data processing. We invite > you to submit talks on the topics: > * IR / Search - Lucene, Solr, katta or comparable solutions > * NoSQL - like CouchDB, MongoDB, Jackrabbit, HBase and others > * Hadoop - Hadoop itself, MapReduce, Cascading or Pig and relatives > * Closely related topics not explicitly listed above are welcome. We are > looking for presentations on the implementation of the systems > themselves, > real world applications and case studies. > > Important Dates (all dates in GMT +2) > * Submission deadline: March 1st 2011, 23:59 MEZ > * Notification of accepted speakers: March 22th, 2011, MEZ. > * Publication of final schedule: April 5th, 2011. > * Conference: June 6/7. 2011 > High quality, technical submissions are called for, ranging from principles > to practice. We are looking for real world use cases, background on the > architecture of specific projects and a deep dive into architectures built on > top of e.g. Hadoop clusters. > > Proposals should be submitted at http://berlinbuzzwords.de/content/cfp-0 no > later than March 1st, 2011. Acceptance notifications will be sent out soon > after the submission deadline. Please include your name, bio and email, the > title of the talk, a brief abstract in English language. Please indicate > whether you want to give a lightning (10min), short (20min) or long (40min) > presentation and indicate the level of experience with the topic your > audience should have (e.g. whether your talk will be suitable for newbies or > is targeted for experienced users.) If you'd like to pitch your brand new > product in your talk, please let us know as well - there will be extra space > for presenting new ideas, awesome products and great new projects. > > The presentation format is short. We will be enforcing the schedule > rigorously. > > If you are interested in sponsoring the event (e.g. we would be happy to > provide videos after the event, free drinks for attendees as well as an > after-show party), please contact us. > > Follow @hadoopberlin on Twitter for updates. Tickets, news on the conference, > and the final schedule are be published at http://berlinbuzzwords.de. > > Program Chairs: Isabel Drost, Jan Lehnardt, and Simon Willnauer. > Please re-distribute this CfP to people who might be interested. > If you are local and wish to meet us earlier, please note that this Thursday > evening there will be an Apache Hadoop Get Together (videos kindly sponsored > by Cloudera, venue kindly provided for free by Zanox) featuring talks on > Apache Hadoop in production as well as news on current Apache Lucene > developments. > > Contact us at: > > newthinking communications > GmbH Schönhauser Allee 6/7 > 10119 Berlin, > Germany > Julia Gemählich > Isabel Drost > +49(0)30-9210 596
