Great recap Michael, we should probably start a Graph User Group in Berlin! Pere, would you be up for pulling that together, if we support you?
Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Michael Hunger < michael.hun...@neotechnology.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It was really a great event. Perfectly organized by MoviePilots.de (Jannis) > where Pere works as well. > > You can find all information about the event here: http://moviehackday.comand > of course > http://twitter.com/moviehackday (wiki > http://wiki.moviehackday.com/mediawiki/index.php/Berlin_2011) > > There was free pizza, drinks (also beer), ping pong, lots of space, great > conversations. > > Some people have heard of neo4j and graphs some didn't so Achim, Pere and I > did a quick intro into graph-databases. > > For hacking 3 teams decided to go for neo4j for recommendations / > connections etc. which is great (two of which never used it before). > > MoviePilot are using/going to use Neo4j for their international site ( > moviepilot.com) they have 60 employees in total, running everything on > ruby on rails. Their german site is running on mysql, but the german team > got interested > in neo4j too so they will perhaps add it for recommendations and such and > perhaps replace mysql in the long run, we should work on that :) > > They have a really great, golden, light-flooded office (previously a dance > school, with mirrors and such, my wife even knew that one). So if we ever > start an office in Berlin, we should try and sub-let some desks from them. > It is also a good location (Mehringdamm 33), easy to reach via subway and > very cheap and great ho(s)tels around the corner (complete room for 3 w/ > bathroom & breakfast for 42 EUR). > > I sponsored a Kymera Magic Wand as 2nd prize, courtesy Neo4j. > > I also announced the graphdb-meetup Berlin ( > http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/) there (during the demo show-off), > even got a good location suggestion (c-base). > > > By the way, our team of four won the first prize ( > http://moviehackday.com/alien-egg.jpg), an Alien Collectors Set with > "MovieTrail" a different visualization of a movie (like a twitter stream > with geo-loc of the movie and appropriate images), all just extracted from > the movie-script doc-file. > We didn't use any storage so far, as we wanted to concentrate on the > parsing, geo-lookup and visualization. > > Public URL: http://movietrail.heroku.com/events/1 (dam'n it doesn't show > the images, although the urls are correct) > Repository is on github: http://github.com/jexp/movietrail > > > I'm looking forward to the next movie-hackday, there were also suggestions > on twitter to hold another one this year in the US which would be great. > > > Cheers > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
