PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007: My wrap up
Posted Wednesday Oct 31st, 2007 02:42pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
We had a great time at the conference and subsequent party. If you are
ever in PDX and want some great food and interesting accommodations I
strongly suggest the Paramount Hotel and Dragon Fish cafe. They treated
all of us very well and had great food!
The conference did well above expectations, signing on 10 sponsors,
some at the last minute (LinuxFund). Our original goal was only 4. And
as has been mentioned in other places already, we had well over the 35
attendees we expected, topping out at 60+. That is a great day for our
community!
Further because of our sponsors and our attendees, we were in a single
day able to raise over 5000.00 dollars for the community. Not bad
considering we only had 8 weeks to prepare and it is the first
conference that the team had done together. The money of course all
went to SPI our affiliated 501c3.
The money raised will be used to continue our community growth
including sponsoring speakers for other shows, purchasing new shirts
and the upcoming live CD for 8.3.
Of course the team isn't sleeping until next year, we are already busy
on our other upcoming conferences.
We are having a PostgreSQL Web Technologies mini-conf in February 08.
This will be attached to SCALE and will be similar in format to our
PGDay last July.
We are also having a PostgreSQL Conference East 08! This show is being
held in late Winter, early Spring. We are very excited about this
conference as we have a swell of community members in the area. It is
going to be held in the D.C./Maryland area, likely be 1.5 days and we
are hoping for over 100 community members to attend.
Make sure you watch for the call for speakers for both of these
upcoming shows.
Lastly the conference website: www.postgresqlconference.org has
all the audio from the talks up. We also have "some" of the slides
(more forthcoming) and the video will be up in a couple of weeks!
Thanks to everyone again for their support of this conference series.
It is great to see the community growing and supporting each other.
Posted Wednesday Oct 31st, 2007 02:42pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
We had a great time at the conference and subsequent party. If you are
ever in PDX and want some great food and interesting accommodations I
strongly suggest the Paramount Hotel and Dragon Fish cafe. They treated
all of us very well and had great food!
The conference did well above expectations, signing on 10 sponsors,
some at the last minute (LinuxFund). Our original goal was only 4. And
as has been mentioned in other places already, we had well over the 35
attendees we expected, topping out at 60+. That is a great day for our
community!
Further because of our sponsors and our attendees, we were in a single
day able to raise over 5000.00 dollars for the community. Not bad
considering we only had 8 weeks to prepare and it is the first
conference that the team had done together. The money of course all
went to SPI our affiliated 501c3.
The money raised will be used to continue our community growth
including sponsoring speakers for other shows, purchasing new shirts
and the upcoming live CD for 8.3.
Of course the team isn't sleeping until next year, we are already busy
on our other upcoming conferences.
We are having a PostgreSQL Web Technologies mini-conf in February 08.
This will be attached to SCALE and will be similar in format to our
PGDay last July.
We are also having a PostgreSQL Conference East 08! This show is being
held in late Winter, early Spring. We are very excited about this
conference as we have a swell of community members in the area. It is
going to be held in the D.C./Maryland area, likely be 1.5 days and we
are hoping for over 100 community members to attend.
Make sure you watch for the call for speakers for both of these
upcoming shows.
Lastly the conference website: www.postgresqlconference.org has
all the audio from the talks up. We also have "some" of the slides
(more forthcoming) and the video will be up in a couple of weeks!
Thanks to everyone again for their support of this conference series.
It is great to see the community growing and supporting each other.
Categories: PostgreSQL, OpenSource
PostgreSQL Conference: Good Lord... twice as many as we expected
Posted Friday Oct 19th, 2007 03:49pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
When Selena Deckelmann and I decided to start a PostgreSQL Conference series, we believed that a small, regional, technically specific conference was appropriate. We considered that at most, we would get around 35 people and it would essentially be a large user group meeting that had a series of talks and was good for the community.
That was the end of July.
Read more...
Posted Friday Oct 19th, 2007 03:49pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
When Selena Deckelmann and I decided to start a PostgreSQL Conference series, we believed that a small, regional, technically specific conference was appropriate. We considered that at most, we would get around 35 people and it would essentially be a large user group meeting that had a series of talks and was good for the community.
That was the end of July.
Read more...
Categories: PostgreSQL, OpenSource
plphp 1.3.5 Beta 1 Released
Posted Monday Oct 15th, 2007 10:22am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Not much to say here but plphp 1.3.5 Beta1 supports named parameters and PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta1.
Enjoy :) PL/php website
Posted Monday Oct 15th, 2007 10:22am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
Not much to say here but plphp 1.3.5 Beta1 supports named parameters and PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta1.
Enjoy :) PL/php website
Categories: PostgreSQL, OpenSource
PostgreSQL Gotcha: Default timestamps are not exact!
Posted Tuesday Oct 9th, 2007 03:54pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
If you are compiling PostgreSQL from source you have a configure option called:
Now Debian/Ubuntu wisely turn this option on by default, unfortunately the RPM provided by PostgreSQL.Org and the RPM provided by RedHat/Fedora do not. Read more...
Posted Tuesday Oct 9th, 2007 03:54pm
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
If you are compiling PostgreSQL from source you have a configure option called:
--enable-integer-datetimes
Now Debian/Ubuntu wisely turn this option on by default, unfortunately the RPM provided by PostgreSQL.Org and the RPM provided by RedHat/Fedora do not. Read more...
Categories: PostgreSQL, OpenSource
The easy but harder than I thought road to PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007
Posted Monday Oct 1st, 2007 11:35am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
The PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 has given me a knew appreciation for the little things. If it wasn't for PDXPUG leader Selena Deckelmann the conference would not have the complimentary breakfast/social nor would it have the synopsis of the talks on the conference website.
The hard work of Selena, myself and the speakers appears to be paying off. We have a strong list of sponsors as well as a very strong list of speakers. See for yourself: Read more...
Posted Monday Oct 1st, 2007 11:35am
by Joshua Drake | Permalink
The PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 has given me a knew appreciation for the little things. If it wasn't for PDXPUG leader Selena Deckelmann the conference would not have the complimentary breakfast/social nor would it have the synopsis of the talks on the conference website.
The hard work of Selena, myself and the speakers appears to be paying off. We have a strong list of sponsors as well as a very strong list of speakers. See for yourself: Read more...
Categories: PostgreSQL, OpenSource
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