From the sign-up/homepage:
Are you curious and interested to learn more about Graph Processing technologies? Are you willing to visit the coolest city in Europe right now? or are you living in town?
If the answer to that questions is positive, we are planning to launch a one day workshop about Graph Processing in Berlin for the last months of this year.
There you will learn the basics for working your graph from the best guys who build, work or collaborate with the most important projects on the field right now.
Our focus will be technologies like Neo4j, Giraph and Hadoop, OrientDB, with a high focus on applications like Recommendations systems, Graph Theory, Analytics, etc…
Register here, and we will send you more information as soon as we reach the minimum level of audience!
Send it to your colleges and friends, as much as we are more fun it will be!
The Graph Processing Berlin team.
If you register you will see:
Relationships are a two way street. You are asking people to give you their recommendation, so what are you giving them?
Asking you for email addresses to advertise the conference.
Today I get an email saying I can track the # people I have entered as email addresses.
#1 Good conferences don’t need guilt tripping, “…what are you giving them.” to get viral advertising.
#2 Spamming my friends isn’t being viral, just vulgar.
The conference may be a good one. Let’s hope its marketing mis-steps are just that, mis-steps.
Hi!
I’m the guy beyond this event in Berlin, and would love to give you a proper answer.
I used the services of http://launchrock.com/ in order to help me promote this event. As you could notice this is a service for having launch pages for startups, so they ask for the email and use this kind of language.
I wanted to collect people interested on the event, and nowadays I’ve quite a lot, so then I can send them emails and talk about when and how to organize the workshop.
This is going to be a one day workshop in Berlin, and I always wanted to have as much people as possible. How would you do the promotion, without having an specific time for the workshop, etc? just to collect if people is interested? All collaboration are welcome!
– purbon
Comment by purbon — June 5, 2012 @ 5:37 am
I would also tell you I’m a software engineer, not into marketing, so if you would love to teach us how to proceed properly, please do it!. I’m registered here, so you can properly send me an email, and we talk about it.
Comment by purbon — June 5, 2012 @ 5:38 am
Purbon,
Sorry for the delayed response.
I’m not a marketing person either but I know that I dislike sites that ask for/collect email addresses of my contacts.
Who to contact depends on what sort of “event” you want to have. Do you want 100+ attendees? Or is < 100 ok? What sort of resources do you have to devote to the event? BTW, just from having been in the non-profit/academic meeting world, an event of much more than 30-40 people isn't as easy as it looks. The ones that look easy had a lot of planning/management up front. For a smallish event, say < 50 people, I would write to graph projects with a connection in/atround Berlin (see the list at Wikipedia under graph databases). Perhaps invite a well-known project leader with good speaking skills. Won't get everyone but being a "local" event cuts down on the management side of it.
Comment by Patrick Durusau — June 7, 2012 @ 5:34 am