February 6-7th of next year, the tenth edition of FOSDEM takes place in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a weekend-long open source/free software fest organized by the community, for the community, and gathers up to 4000 people from all around the world. Best of all, it's free due to a lot of volunteer work and a number of nice corporate (and volunteer) sponsors. The setting is the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and FOSDEM hosts a famous beer night as well. All things FOSDEM can be found at http://fosdem.org/2010/.
This year, we managed to reserve a NoSQL 'devroom', which essentially is a mini-conference-inside-a-conference, a topically-based gathering of people presenting, using and/or hacking on NoSQL data stores. The devrooms are a pretty scarce resource so I'm really happy we managed to get hold of one. The idea is that we can set up and organize a full day for ourselves - NoSQL folks - on the Sunday of the FOSDEM weekend (Feb 7th 2010 - 9AM-5PM).
I'm looking for people wanting to present their favourite NoSQL tool or war story, or to present/clarify academic background papers on NoSQL storage/retrieval/distribution theory, any contemporary NoSQL theme basically, be it CouchDB, Cassandra or HBase, riak, Redis, Voldemort or all the other ones I forget to mention now.
This will be the first EU-based larger-scale NoSQL gathering, and I'm really excited to act as your interim servant/event planner. We have a 70 person capacity room (without squeezing), network/wifi, at least 7 full hours of NoSQL talk time, a beamer and the really nice FOSDEM atmosphere: all great ingredients to make the best out of the day.
I'm looking for speakers, attendees, participants in any kind (video capturing?) and perhaps some sponsors as well. All information - updating as we speak - can be found at http://nosqldevroom.pbworks.com/ which will be mirrored to fosdem.org once we've got a finalized schedule.
I'm enthusiastically looking forward to your responses, ideas, wishes and comments.