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Hi Jamie, I had the same idea and contacted Mike who already signaled that he would be available for a seminar at CERN. Cheers, Dirk On 8 Apr 2009, at 10:27, Jamie Shiers wrote: > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael > Stonebraker > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 17:05 > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: XLDB3 planning > > 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 >> >