Hi, It was really a great event. Perfectly organized by MoviePilots.de (Jannis) where Pere works as well.
You can find all information about the event here: http://moviehackday.com and of course http://twitter.com/moviehackday (wiki http://wiki.moviehackday.com/mediawiki/index.php/Berlin_2011) There was free pizza, drinks (also beer), ping pong, lots of space, great conversations. Some people have heard of neo4j and graphs some didn't so Achim, Pere and I did a quick intro into graph-databases. For hacking 3 teams decided to go for neo4j for recommendations / connections etc. which is great (two of which never used it before). MoviePilot are using/going to use Neo4j for their international site (moviepilot.com) they have 60 employees in total, running everything on ruby on rails. Their german site is running on mysql, but the german team got interested in neo4j too so they will perhaps add it for recommendations and such and perhaps replace mysql in the long run, we should work on that :) They have a really great, golden, light-flooded office (previously a dance school, with mirrors and such, my wife even knew that one). So if we ever start an office in Berlin, we should try and sub-let some desks from them. It is also a good location (Mehringdamm 33), easy to reach via subway and very cheap and great ho(s)tels around the corner (complete room for 3 w/ bathroom & breakfast for 42 EUR). I sponsored a Kymera Magic Wand as 2nd prize, courtesy Neo4j. I also announced the graphdb-meetup Berlin (http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/) there (during the demo show-off), even got a good location suggestion (c-base). By the way, our team of four won the first prize (http://moviehackday.com/alien-egg.jpg), an Alien Collectors Set with "MovieTrail" a different visualization of a movie (like a twitter stream with geo-loc of the movie and appropriate images), all just extracted from the movie-script doc-file. We didn't use any storage so far, as we wanted to concentrate on the parsing, geo-lookup and visualization. Public URL: http://movietrail.heroku.com/events/1 (dam'n it doesn't show the images, although the urls are correct) Repository is on github: http://github.com/jexp/movietrail I'm looking forward to the next movie-hackday, there were also suggestions on twitter to hold another one this year in the US which would be great. Cheers Michael _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
