Berlin Buzzwords 2014: CfP is open

[Isabel Drost-Fromm]

I'm super happy to announce that the call for submissions for Berlin
Buzzwords 2013 is open. For those who don't know the conference - in
my "absolutely objective opinion" the event is the most exciting
conference on storing, processing and searching large amounts of
digital data for engineers.

The 5th edition of Berlin Buzzwords will take place on May 25-28,
2014 at Kulturbrauerei Berlin.

Berlin Buzzwords is looking for speakers who submit talks on the
following topics:

* Information Retrieval / Search i.e. Lucene, Solr, katta, ElasticSearch or
comparable solutions

* NoSQL and SQL i.e. CouchDB, MongoDB, Jackrabbit, Hbase and others

* Large Data Processing i.e. Hadoop itself, MapReduce, Cascading, Pig,
Spark and friends

Closely related topics not explicity listed above are welcome as well.

The Call for Submissions will be open until February 9! Be part of
Berlin Buzzwords and submit your session idea. Please register here:
.

Looking forward to lots of interesting proposals - and looking forward to
meeting all of you in Berlin later this year (did I mention that Berlin
rocks in summer?)


Isabel

PS: As always, any help with spreading the word is highly welcome.

PS2: One final hint - even though speakers of course get a complimentary
conference pass make sure to still check out our ticket page in
particular if you'd like to bring your children to the conference - we
do provide child day care on a donation basis but need your registration
for capacity planning: http://berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets

Call for Presentations FOSS Backstage open

[Isabel Drost-Fromm]

Hi,

As announced on Berlin Buzzwords we (that is Isabel Drost-Fromm, Stefan
Rudnitzki as well as the eventing team over at newthinking communications GmbH)
are working on a new conference in summer in Berlin. The name of this new
conference will be "FOSS Backstage". Backstage comprises all things
FOSS governance, open collaboration and how to build and manage communities
within the open source space.


Submission URL: https://foss-backstage.de/call-papers 

The event will comprise presentations on all things FOSS governance,
decentralised decision making, open collaboration. We invite you to submit talks
on the topics: FOSS project governance, collaboration, community management.
Asynchronous/ decentralised decision making.  Vendor neutrality in FOSS,
sustainable FOSS, cross team collaboration.  Dealing with poisonous people.
Project growth and hand-over. Trademarks. Strategic licensing.  While it's
primarily targeted at contributions from FOSS people, we would love to also
learn more on how typical FOSS collaboration models work well within
enterprises. Closely related topics not explicitly listed above are welcome. 

Important Dates (all dates in GMT +2)

Submission deadline: February 18th, 2018.

Conference: June, 13th/14th, 2018


High quality talks are called for, ranging from principles to practice. We are
looking for real world case studies, background on the social architecture of
specific projects and a deep dive into cross community collaboration.
Acceptance notifications will be sent out soon after the submission deadline.
Please include your name, bio and email, the title of the talk, a brief abstract
in English language.

We have drafted the submission form to allow for regular talks, each 45 min in
length. However you are free to submit your own ideas on how to support the
event: If you would like to take our attendees out to show them your favourite
bar in Berlin, please submit this offer through the CfP form.  If you are
interested in sponsoring the event (e.g. we would be happy to provide videos
after the event, free drinks for attendees as well as an after-show party),
please contact us.

Schedule and further updates on the event will be published soon on the event
web page.

Please re-distribute this CfP to people who might be interested.

 Contact us at:
 newthinking communications GmbH
 Schoenhauser Allee 6/7
 10119 Berlin, Germany
 i...@foss-backstage.de


Looking forward to meeting you all in person in summer :) I would love to see 
all those
tracks filled with lots of valuable talks on the Apache Way, on how we work,
on how the incubator works, on how being a 501(c3) influences how people get 
involved
and projects are being run, on how being a member run organisation is different,
on merit for life, on growing communities, on things gone great - and things
gone entirely wrong in the ASF's history, on how to interact with Apache
projects as a corporation and everything else you can think of.


Isabel


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