Lucene Revolution 2011 is Coming - May 25 & 26 - Save The Date and Call For Papers

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Bohlig
Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Lucene 
and Solr will take place in the San Francisco/Bay Area May 25-26. 











The 2011 conference will build on the success of last year's Lucene Revolution 
in Boston. Sponsored by Lucid Imagination with additional support from 
community and other commercial co-sponsors, we'll be adding new sessions, new 
speakers, and new training sessions to the agenda. 

Lucid Imagination is the commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache 
Lucene/Solr open source search technology. 

Registration will begin shortly - so make sure to save-the-date. 

In the meantime, the Call For Participation (CFP) is now open for Lucene 
Revolution 2011. If you have a great Solr or Lucene talk, this is a fantastic 
opportunity to share it with the community. 

To submit a proposal for a 45-minute presentation, please complete the form at: 
http://www.lucidimagination.com/revolution/2011/cfp 

Topics of interest include: 
- Lucene and Solr in the Enterprise (case studies, implementation, return on 
investment, etc.) 
- Use of LucidWorks Enterprise 
- “How We Did It” development case studies 
- Lucene/Solr technology deep dives: features, how to use, etc. 
- Spatial/Geo/local search 
- Lucene and Solr in the Cloud 
- Scalability and performance tuning 
- Large Scale Search 
- Real Time Search (or NRT search) 
- Data Integration/Data Management 
- Lucene & Solr for Mobile Applications 
- Associated technologies: Mahout, Nutch, NLP, etc. 

All accepted speakers will get complimentary conference passes. Financial 
assistance is available for speakers that qualify. 

Submissions must be received by Wednesday , March 2 , 2011 , 12 Midnight PST 


Key Dates: 
January 18 , 2011 : Call For Participation open; form available for completion 
at: http://www.lucidimagination.com/revolution/2011/cfp 
March 2, 2011 : Call For Participation Closes 
March 9, 2011 : Speaker Acceptance Notification 
May 23-24, 2011 : Lucene and Solr Training Sessions 
May 25-26, 2011 : Lucene Revolution Conference Sessions 

If you have more than one topic that you would like to propose, please complete 
an additional online form. 

To be considered, proposals must be received by 12 Midnight PDT, March 2 , 2011 
. 

Interested in registration or other conference news? Want to be added to the 
conference mailing list? Is your organization interested in sponsorship 
opportunities? Please send an email to: i...@lucenerevolution.org 

We look forward to seeing you in the San Francisco/Bay Area! 

Regards, 
Mike 





Michael Bohlig | Lucid Imagination 
Enterprise Marketing 
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Reminder: Lucene Revolution 2011 Call For Papers Closing March 2

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Bohlig
Please submit your Call For Participation (CFP) proposals for Lucene Revolution 
2011 by March 2. If you have a great Solr or Lucene talk, this is a fantastic 
opportunity to share it with the community at the largest worldwide conference 
dedicated to Lucene and Solr which will take place at the San Francisco Airport 
Hyatt Regency May 25-26. 

To submit a proposal for a 45-minute presentation, complete the form at: 
http://www.lucidimagination.com/revolution/2011/cfp 

Topics of interest include: 
- Lucene and Solr in the Enterprise (case studies, implementation, return on 
investment, etc.) 
- Use of LucidWorks Enterprise 
- “How We Did It” development case studies 
- Lucene/Solr technology deep dives: features, how to use, etc. 
- Spatial/Geo/local search 
- Lucene and Solr in the Cloud 
- Scalability and performance tuning 
- Large Scale Search 
- Real Time Search (or NRT search) 
- Data Integration/Data Management 
- Lucene & Solr for Mobile Applications 
- Associated technologies: Mahout, Nutch, NLP, etc. 

All accepted speakers will get complimentary conference passes. Financial 
assistance is available for speakers that qualify. 

Submissions must be received by Wednesday , March 2 , 2011 , 12 Midnight PST 












Registration is now open for Lucene Revolution 2011 at: 
http://lucenerevolution.com/register 

Interested in conference news? Want to be added to the conference mailing list? 
Is your organization interested in sponsorship opportunities? Please send an 
email to: i...@lucenerevolution.org 

Regards, 
Mike 




Michael Bohlig | Lucid Imagination 
Enterprise Marketing 
p +1 650 353 4057 x132 
m+1 650 703 8383 
www.lucidimagination.com 




Lucene Revolution 2011 - Early Bird Ends April 18

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Bohlig

A quick reminder that there's one week left on special pricing for Lucene 
Revolution 2011. Sign up this week and save some serious cash:

- Conference Registration, now $545, a savings of $180 over the $725 late 
registration price
- Training Package with 2-day Training plus Conference Registration now 
$1695, a savings of $200 over the 
  $1895 late registration package price (and even more savings over the a 
la carte pricing)

What can you expect at the conference?

- Keynote presentations from The Guardian News and Media’s Stephen Dunn and 
Redmonk’s Stephen O’Grady
- Session track talks on use cases, tutorials and technology strategy at 
leading edge, innovative
  companies, including: Travelocity, eBay, eHarmony, EMC, Etsy, Trulia, 
Intuit, Careerbuilder, AT&T, The
  Ladders and more
- Deep internals and implementation guidance at talks by Apache Solr/Lucene 
committers including Grant 
  Ingersoll, Yonik Seeley, Andrzej Bialecki, Uwe Schindler, Simon 
Willnauer, Erik Hatcher, Otis 
  Gospodnetic, and more.

You will also have an unmatched opportunity to network with over 400 of your 
peers from the open source search ecosystem, in all sectors of government, 
universities, start-ups, Fortune 1000 companies, and the developer and user 
community. 

Register at: http://us.ootoweb.com/luceneregistration

P.S. There are also a few free tickets left for the San Francisco Giants vs. 
Florida Marlins game on May 24!


Michael Bohlig | Lucid Imagination 
Enterprise Marketing 
p +1 650 353 4057 x132 
m+1 650 703 8383 
www.lucidimagination.com