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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 >