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Hi, It is clear the alternative dates are a worse option, thus we will go with September 29/30 (this is final, mark your calendars). Also, CERN team will be able to come in spite of some conflicts reported earlier. Yahoo! is the only bigger team that still has a conflict, I hope we will find a solution. Thanks, Jacek 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 >> >