22/23 are ok with me.

At 10:36 PM 6/22/2008, Jacek Becla wrote:
>Hello,
>
>The suggested dates (Sept 29/30) do not work for several
>people. An alternative dates would be a week earlier:
>September 22/23. Please respond if you have a conflict.
>I am planning to finalize the dates next Friday.
>
>Thanks for all responses, offers and suggestions
>I received so far!
>
>Regards,
>Jacek
>
>
>
>Jacek Becla wrote:
>>Dear All,
>>At the 1st XLDB workshop we agreed to meet again in
>>about a year, somewhere in SF Bay Area, likely at SLAC.
>>To make this happen, it is time to start planning
>>the 2nd XLDB workshop now.
>>
>>Where/when
>>==========
>>I'm proposing to meet for 2 days on September 29th
>>and 30th at SLAC. Let me know if you are planning
>>to attend and this slot doesn't work for you (but
>>do realize we won't be able to accommodate everybody's
>>schedule)
>>
>>Program
>>=======
>>Based on the feedback received last year, the style of
>>the 1st workshop worked well, so we will try to keep
>>it similar this year: lots of discussions and very few
>>presentations.
>>We (myself, K-T and few others I talked to) envision
>>this year's workshop to be a continuation of the
>>discussions we started last year, with the main focus
>>on topics like:
>>  * complex analytics - commonalities between science
>>    and industry
>>  * scalability, fault tolerance and crash recovery of
>>    extremely large databases
>>  * common features needed (provenance?, uncertainty?,
>>    time travel?...)
>>  * resource allocation/management
>>  * on the fly reconfiguration and on the fly data
>>    repartitioning
>>  * [... suggestions what else welcome...]
>>The goal would be to identify commonalities,
>>understand and prioritize needed features and
>>discuss path forward.
>>We are considering having a session about war stories
>>(LHC? PanSTARRS? EBay? others?) - if you have a large
>>production database setup and would like to talk about
>>your war stories related to extremely large databases,
>>please let me know.
>>We are also considering having a dedicated time slot
>>for new startups (and maybe well established vendors),
>>so...
>>1) If you represent a startup involved in providing
>>    extremely large database solutions and would like to
>>    speak about it, please let me know. The form of this
>>    session is to-be-decided (poster session? panel?
>>    short presentations?).
>>2) If you would like to see a slot dedicated to well
>>    established DBMS vendors, please let me know. Based
>>    on the feedback I received last year this seems to be
>>    less desired.
>>Finally, we believe it'd be valuable to spend the second
>>half of the second day on a tutorial related to the new
>>open source database that was proposed at the Asilomar
>>meeting. See the report:
>>http://xldb.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/4784226/sciDB2008_report.pdf 
>>
>>for more details about this meeting. We will provide
>>more information in advance to help you decide if you
>>want to stay or not.
>>
>>Organizing Committee
>>====================
>>I'm looking for 2-4 volunteers who would like to help
>>with organizing this workshop. An up-front warning:
>>each member of the organizing committee will be expected
>>to do some real work (announcements, preparation, maybe
>>moderating, etc). If you are interested, please respond
>>directly to me.
>>
>>Invitations
>>===========
>>I can already tell there is huge interest in this workshop,
>>and it will be a challenge to keep it relatively small,
>>e.g. under 70. We need to come up with a policy what criteria
>>to use to select who should be invited. (Keep in mind that
>>being on this list and receiving this email does _not_ guarantee
>>getting an invite...). I think we should shoot for no more
>>than two representatives for "bigger" sites/labs/companies,
>>and one representative otherwise.
>>
>>Website
>>========
>>In the short term, up-to-date page dedicated to workshop
>>preparation will be maintained at:
>>http://xldb.slac.stanford.edu/display/XLDB/xldb2
>>Eventually we will create an official web page similar to:
>>http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb07
>>
>>Comments welcome
>>================
>>If you have suggestions regarding agenda/topics to discuss,
>>or any other comments/suggestions, please contact me or
>>respond to this email.
>>
>>Based on the feedback we received, last year's meeting
>>was a great success, which means it'll be a big challenge
>>to make the 2nd workshop even better. I am looking forward
>>to making this happen together with you.
>>Best regards,
>>Jacek