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Call for proposals for PDXPUG PgDay, due June 20, 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 […]

PgCon 2008 - big announcements, community conversations

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 […]

PgCon Lightning talk: User Groupalooza

I gave a Lightning talk today about PostgreSQL User Groups. I wasn’t able to get through ALL my slides - but I only had to rush through the last three. (click on the cat below to download - 5MB)

Lightning talks are some of my favorite sessions. I got to announce the incorporation […]

PgCon in Ottawa - following people on twitter

I’m in Ottawa at PgCon and listening to Bruce Momjian give the keynote.
We have a few people who’ve joined Twitter in the last couple months and are posting their thoughts through the conference. Try following @crad, @fuzzychef, @franciscojunior and @selenamarie (me) for our up-to-the-minute updates!
I’ll be giving a lightning talk this afternoon around 5:30pm […]

Bar Camp Portland: what a weekend!

I’m inspired.
I’m still buzzing from BarCampPortland. I loved every minute of it, and managed to learn a ton from all the amazing people in Portland. I met a ton of new people, and started several more projects
Over the course of two days, I ran two sessions. The first was about PostgreSQL:

We had a […]

Roadtrip to LinuxFest NW with PostgreSQL!

PDXPUG and USPgA are headed to LinuxFest NW in Bellingham, WA this weekend. We have a booth we’ll be staffing 9:30AM-5:00PM Saturday and 9:30AM-4:00PM Sunday. Mark Wong will be presenting ptop Saturday April 26th, at 10am in room Haskell-111. Don’t miss it!
Seems like a great lineup this year - tons of Drupal, how to use […]

Wordpress vs. Drupal: Not that it’s about winning

Here’s the talk Andy and I presented at the fantastic LUG Radio Live conference, April 12, 2008. Some people even asked for the movie, so here it is in Flash:

geekspeakr.com

Heard of geekspeakr.com? Brenda Wallace is created a place to store the names and interesting details of women speakers for conferences.
I took a snapshot of the tag cloud so far:

Yay for PostgreSQL being the only database represented! So far!

lugradio live and emma hogbin

I drove down to San Francisco yesterday with my co-presenter Andy for LugRadio Live USA 2008. Between presenting and booth duty, I was able to see Matthew Garrett give a fantastic talk about laptops and power management (and all the things that go wrong!), and Emma Hogbin give her talk, “Form an orderly queue, […]

ptop - the talk

Check out the slides from my ptop talk. I was very happy with the end result of the presentation. I had a few people talk to me about the project afterward, including the author of innotop, a perl-based monitoring tool for MySQL. I’m sure we can steal some ideas from that project!
I haven’t […]