Fwd: CFP - Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - Search, Score, Scale

[Alan Gates <ga...@yahoo-inc.com>]

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> From: Isabel Drost <is...@apache.org>
> Date: January 25, 2011 12:53:28 PM PST
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> Subject: CFP - Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - Search, Score, Scale
> Reply-To: "general@hadoop.apache.org" <ge...@hadoop.apache.org>, "isabel@apache.org 
> " <is...@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