CfP: NoSQL devroom @ FOSDEM (2010-02-07, Brussels, Belgium)

[Steven Noels]

Call for Participation / Call for Presentations

Hi all,

February 6-7th of next year, the tenth edition of FOSDEM takes place in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a weekend-long open source/free software fest organized by the community, for the community, and gathers up to 4000 people from all around the world. Best of all, it's free due to a lot of volunteer work and a number of nice corporate (and volunteer) sponsors. The setting is the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and FOSDEM hosts a famous beer night as well. All things FOSDEM can be found at http://fosdem.org/2010/.

This year, we managed to reserve a NoSQL 'devroom', which essentially is a mini-conference-inside-a-conference, a topically-based gathering of people presenting, using and/or hacking on NoSQL data stores. The devrooms are a pretty scarce resource so I'm really happy we managed to get hold of one. The idea is that we can set up and organize a full day for ourselves - NoSQL folks - on the Sunday of the FOSDEM weekend (Feb 7th 2010 - 9AM-5PM).

I'm looking for people wanting to present their favourite NoSQL tool or war story, or to present/clarify academic background papers on NoSQL storage/retrieval/distribution theory, any contemporary NoSQL theme basically, be it CouchDB, Cassandra or HBase, riak, Redis, Voldemort or all the other ones I forget to mention now.

This will be the first EU-based larger-scale NoSQL gathering, and I'm really excited to act as your interim servant/event planner. We have a 70 person capacity room (without squeezing), network/wifi, at least 7 full hours of NoSQL talk time, a beamer and the really nice FOSDEM atmosphere: all great ingredients to make the best out of it.

I'm looking for speakers, attendees, participants in any kind (video capturing?) and perhaps some sponsors as well. All information - updated as we speak - can be found at http://nosqldevroom.pbworks.com/ which will be mirrored to fosdem.org once we've got a finalized schedule.

I'm enthusiastically looking forward to your responses, ideas, wishes and comments.

Timeline

* presentations suggestions should be sent in by December 18th
* a finalized schedule will be prepared by January 8th
* NoSQL devroom @ FOSDEM happens February 7th

Let's make this happen together!

Cheers,

Steven.
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[Steven Noels]

Just a quick reminder - extending the deadline until the 23rd. We have talks on HBase and Cassandra, on NoSQL in general, but we'd love to see more projects being represented. FOSDEM is great, don't miss out on it!

Thanks,

Steven.

[Steven Noels]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Steven Noels <ste...@outerthought.org> wrote:

Just a quick reminder - extending the deadline until the 23rd. We have talks on HBase and Cassandra, on NoSQL in general, but we'd love to see more projects being represented. FOSDEM is great, don't miss out on it!

I've updated the talk proposal list with stuff received so far:

http://nosqldevroom.pbworks.com/NoSQL-devroom-Talks

I realize the holiday season is approaching, and FOSDEM is held over a weekend, but anyone who attended the conference during earlier editions keeps coming back. And it would be a cool way to find out if NoSQL isn't a US-only affair. ;-)

Cheers,

[Tim Anglade]

After a discussion with Steven, I've added myself on the wiki page
http://nosqldevroom.pbworks.com/NoSQL-devroom-Talks to give an
overview presentation.

If there's anybody more qualified or band-name-ish who ends up wanting
to do this, I'll be happy to free up the “Overview” slot.

Cheers,
Tim

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