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Speakers workshop at LibrePlanet next week!

Friday, March 12, 2010

I’m headed off to Boston (and then NYC!) next week for three days of free software love at LibrePlanet, March 19-21. While there, I’ll be giving a speaker’s workshop – how to give talks at technical conferences. There’s not really a magical formula, just lots of tips and things to practice that will help you [...]

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Why you should go to LCA 2011

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I returned from LCA 2010 on Sunday with an ecstatic grin, and tons of projects to work on for the rest of the year. I was lucky enough to have End Point send me to New Zealand! I knew a few of the organizers, and had high expectations. LCA totally surpassed them all. Next year, [...]

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OpenSQLCamp was awesome!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Thanks to everyone who attended OpenSQLCamp this past weekend in Portland, OR! More than 100 people participated – developers, DBAs and hobbyists from all over the world. Database developers participated from PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Drizzle, TokuDB, LucidDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB and many more. The great thing about these events is the opportunity to trade ideas, [...]

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Perl Mongers, Open SQL Camp and JPUG 10th anniversary coming up

Sunday, November 8, 2009

I’ve got a busy couple of weeks in November: November 11, 2009 – I’m presenting Bucardo (a sweet replication system for Postgres) at the Portland Perl Mongers group, 7pm at Free Geek. November 13-14, 2009 – I’ll be helping run OpenSQL Camp with Eric Day here in Portland, OR. We’re having it at Souk, and [...]

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GSoC Mentor Summit and the new mentor’s manual

Saturday, October 24, 2009

I’ve been in San Jose since Wednesday, working on a book and preparing for today’s Google Summer of Code Mentor’s Summit. We’re here at Google’s campus, setting up the schedule and meeting new and old friends. A group of us – me, Jen, Alex, Bart, Jonathan, Leslie and Olly – worked with Adam Hyde from [...]

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Bucardo talk up

Saturday, October 17, 2009

For those that don’t follow the End Point blog, I just posted my slides for the Bucardo talk I gave this morning in seattle.

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Kicking off Open Source Bridge planning

Thursday, October 15, 2009

We’re kicking off the planning for Open Source Bridge 2010, old school. We’ve got a mailing list that you should subscribe to: http://groups.google.com/group/osbridge Last year’s organizing team was very structured. I like to think that we managed things well, and our attendees were pleased with the results. But, this time – we’re changing how we [...]

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Enterprising PgWest conference speaker makes an after-party wiki page!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Please see the page that PgWest Speaker Gabrielle Roth made to help organize a party for the evening of 10/17/09: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/After-Thing If you’re interested in attending, add your name to the wiki page, and the party organizers will do their best to secure a good location. thanks!

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Responding to offensive presentations at conferences

Monday, September 28, 2009

On a couple mailing lists I participate in, people have raised the question: “When something offensive occurs during a conference presentation, what’s the right response from the audience and/or conference organizers?” Unfortunately, at least one of these discussion lists is private, so I can’t directly quote the individuals who posted. But the content was worth [...]

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Open Source Bridge: Thank you all

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Open Source Bridge ended yesterday at midnight. We wrapped things up at the Hacker Lounge, with interviews courtesy of Strange Love Live, and tons of hackers still coding through the evening. My head was just buzzing from all of the great conversations I’ve had over the last three days. Thank you to all of the [...]

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