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Berlin Buzzwords 2012 is a conference for developers and users of open source software projects, focussing on the issues of scalable search, data-analysis in the cloud and NoSQL-databases. Berlin Buzzwords presents more than 30 talks and presentations of international speakers specific to the three tags "search", "store" and "scale".

Berlin Buzzwords scheduling - behind the scenes

Isabel Drost, one of the co-organizers of Berlin Buzzwords 2012 gave some insights on how we did the scheduling. An interesting peek behind the scenes.

She wrote:

I thought it might be interesting to share some background on how Berlin Buzzwords scheduling worked out this year. We changed it quite a bit - adding more people to the conference committee, upping the acceptance rate while at the same time reducing speaking time for quite a few talks. This is to share some background information on some of the reasons and provide some detail on how rating was done.

Read the full article here.