If show-and-tell is a key objective, how about a seminar at CERN
disclosing the current state of play? If planned early enough (i.e. now)
you can expect to reach a large audience from many / most key European
(and beyond) sites that are involved in HEP and other disciplines.

This should presumably be post-XLDB3 to give the most up-to-date
information.

We can also arrange web-casting etc.

Cheers, Jamie

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I will come.

agenda -- big issues:

1) Current SciDb seems to be appropriate for astro, fusion, remote  
sensing, particle physics, oceanography and much of simulation.

It will not work for bio, chem, solid modelling,

I would like to see a cleaner statement of who it will serve, and who  
it won't.  We should discuss ideas on how to help others.

2) show-and-tell with Europe

Martin Kersten has a big project.  So does Natassa Ailemaki.  We  
should spend a bunch of time seeing what everybody is doing, and  
figuring out how to work together.

3) you sent around an e-mail a couple of months ago saying NSF wanted  
to do a workshop for a couple of communities.  Can you remind me what  
these were?  We should use XLDB-3 to serve that need (whatever it as).

I think 2) is the most important objective.  It is not important that  
we get a lot of folks from USA to come.  We need a lot of Europe people.






On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Jacek Becla wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> This year's Extremely Large Databases Workshop will
> take place in Lyon, France, on August 28 and 29.
>
> I need your input, please see below.
>
>
> Agenda/topics
> =============
>
> If you have any suggestions what topics we should
> include on the agenda, please send them to me.
> We are tentatively considering breaking some of
> the discussions into several working groups, each
> focusing in-depth on one topic. If you have topic
> suggestions for such groups, or an opinion whether
> it is a good or bad idea, I'd like to hear that too.
> I will compile the responses, and will discuss them
> with the organizing committee.
>
>
> Reaching out
> ============
> As discuss at XLDB2, we would like to reach out to
> the European and Asian communities dealing with
> large databases, as well as to the under-represented
> science communities, such as biology. If you have
> connections with any of these communities and would
> be willing to help make the connections, please let
> me know.
>
>
> Attending the workshop
> ======================
> And finally, since the workshop is in Europe, I realize
> it maybe be more difficult for some of you to attend it.
> Can you let me know if you will attend if you get an
> invite? If not, might you have a colleague, perhaps
> based in Europe or Asia, that could take your place?
>
> Best regards,
> Jacek
>