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Pluggable architecture, not just for code

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

One OSCON session that made me think was “Does Open Source need to be organic?” The panel contained Brian Aker (MySQL), Rob Lanphier (Linden Lab), Stephen O’Grady (Redmonk), Theodore Ts’o (Linux Foundation). The session was less about business vs. community, and more about how to increase community involvement in your projects.
Brian Aker mentioned Launchpad, […]

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Running a Successful User Group

Sunday, July 27, 2008

After the People For Geeks talk, I presented “Running a Successful User Group” with Gabrielle Roth on Wednesday. You can find our slides and our presentation handout over on Bacon and Tech. The handout is pretty cool, take a minute and print it out!

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OSCON 2008 - People for Geeks: Leading without being in charge

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Here’s my slide deck from People for Geeks. Will be uploading to slideshare soon!

The talk is about leading user groups and steps for managing volunteers, and how to have fun!

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PDXPUG Day on July 20 - Register now!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

photo courtesy of Dan Browning
Registration for PDXPUG Day on July 20, 2008 is open! Please sign up and let us know what size t-shirt you’d like. We’re requesting a $20 donation (by cash or check) at the door. All proceeds to to Software in the Public Interest, a 501(c)3 organization that is used […]

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How to Plurk

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I’ll keep updating this as I find new things!
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
Peat has already mentioned his newfound love of Plurk, a quirky new social networking site that I’ve been playing with. Now that Leo Laporte has endorsed it, they’ve experienced their first Twitter-style growth!
What I like most about Plurk is that it takes the […]

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Call for proposals for PDXPUG PgDay, due June 20, 2008

Monday, June 2, 2008

(Photo from PgDay 2007)
Please submit a talk! The call will be open for 2 weeks and proposals are due June 20th. Follow the link for details on submitting.
http://pugs.postgresql.org/node/400

PDXPUG PgDay will be on July 20, 2008. This is a one-day conference happening the day before OSCON at the Oregon Convention Center.
We are inviting anyone […]

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PgCon 2008 - big announcements, community conversations

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

PgCon was a very exciting conference, with a lot of people from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America traveling to be part of it. I read that 175 people attended, and based on how crowded both parties were, it’s not hard to believe!
The biggest announcement for me was that the PostgreSQL Europe is finally a […]

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