Dear all,

A lot has happened since we selected XLDB4 dates back in February.
Here are the most important highlights regarding the upcoming
XLDB4 conference. You can find more details on the just-released
website at: http://xldb.org/4

Dates and location
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This year's XLDB event will be organized at SLAC
on October 5-7:
  * October 5: *invitational* workshop (~60 attendees)
  * October 6-7: open conference


Registration
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Registration for the conference is now open
(see the website). If you are planning to attend,
I'd recommend to register early, based on received
feedback we think there is a chance we might reach
the capacity of our auditorium quickly.


Agenda
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Draft agendas for both the conference and the workshop
are available at:

http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/Program.asp
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/WProgram.asp


Workshop
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As in the past, this year's workshop will be
by-invitation-only. We expect to start sending out
invitations later this month (June). We are still
looking for more experts, in particular in the area
of medical/bioinformatics, oil/gas and finance, so if
you know anyone we should consider inviting, please
let me know.


Sponsoring
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We are looking for several sponsors. If your organization
would be interested in sponsoring XLDB4 events, please
see: http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/ForSponsors.asp


Call for lightning talks
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We have reserved several five-minute slots at the conference
for selected lightning talks. If you are interested in
speaking during one of these slots, you should send us
a short abstract. Please see the website for details.
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/CallForTalks.asp


Unaffiliated meetings
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If you would like to organize a side-meeting after
the XLDB4 conference ends (in particular if it will have
significant participant overlap), please see the website
for details.
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/SideMeetings.asp


Reaching out
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Please pass the information about XLDB4 conference to your
colleagues who might be interested in attending. It'd be
great if we could reach out to new communities and
organizations that we failed to reach out to in the past.
Also, please note that we prepared a flyer:

http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/xldb_2010_flyer_letter.pdf
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb10/xldb_2010_flyer_A4.pdf

You are encouraged to print and post it!


Organizing committee
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The organizing committee for this year's event:
  * Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington
  * Jacek Becla, SLAC (chair)
  * Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
  * Peter Fox, Tetherless World Constellation
  * Kian-Tat Lim, SLAC
  * Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo!
  * Arie Shoshani, LBNL

This team has been active since March.


Contacting us
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If you have any questions, please contact contact me
directly, or email us at [log in to unmask]
(this mailing list has nearly 200 subscribers and
growing).

Best regards,
Jacek Becla