XLDB

All,

We just released a short summary of the XLDB-2015 Workshop. The link is available through the xldb.org/events page.

Direct link: XLDB-2015 Workshop Report.

Jacek & K-T

“Sketchy Approximations” and “Apache Calcite” won the Best XLDB-2015 Lightning Talks contents. Congratulations to Eric Tschetter and Julian Hyde! Each of them is getting a 30 minute keynote speaking slot at the XLDB-2016, so you will hear them speaking soon!

Jacek

All,

We just finished XLDB-2015. We has a superb line up of speakers. Both the conference and the workshop went *very* well. Slides from the conference have been posted on the web  (www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/xldb2015/ProgramC.asp), and the videos will be posted in ~1 month. Instead of writing a long report from the workshop (for many months), we are planning to post a short write up in the next few days.

Regarding the next event, I’d like to move much faster with organizing it than we did in the past. Also, I will be engaging the XLDB community more in organizing it. We are taking several steps to realize that:

1.  we created a google group for discussing things. This is an opt-in list, and we expect moderate traffic (definitely higher than on this list). If you would like to be engaged in XLDB activities including but not limited to organizing XLDB-2016, make sure you join the group ASAP. To subscribe, follow: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xldb-discuss. For these who like email, once you sign up, you can use emails to interact with the list.
2. We already identified a list of solid topics for the next event.  We will be refining it through the group discussion over the next couple of weeks.
3. We are in the process of finalizing dates, location, and website. The next main conference will be in Silicon Valley (most likely at SLAC in our new auditorium) in May of 2016. If anyone can think of any issues with May 24-26, let me know in the next few days. I’d like to finalize dates no later than the end of May.
4. I appointed Jeremy Cole to be our PR person. He will be helping us spread the word about XLDB and reach out to communities that might want to get involved in XLDB.

   Best regards,
   Jacek

Stephen Wolfram accepted our invitation and will be giving a keynote at XLDB-2015 in May at Stanford.

If you haven’t registered, it is still not too late! xldb.org/2015

Jacek