Friday August 26: Preparations

Friday August 26 was the start of a new phase for the organizers as the first conference material was transported to the conference venue. During the afternoon 600 conference bags was packed at Royal Garden hotel. This page shows some moments from this rather monotonous job.

Click on the photos to see bigger versions. All photos: Roger Midtstraum.

The first load of VLDB 2005 stuff about to leave the Computer Science building. General Chair Kjell Bratbergsengen with some of the student helpers.

VLDB 2005 bags.

Organizing Committee Chair Mads Nygård supervises the packing of the bags.

PhD student Yan Hua Chen.

Conference Secretary Birgit Sørgård.