I’m nearly ready for PDXPUG Day 2010. We’ve got some fun talks lined up from leaders in the Postgres community in town for OSCON. It’s free to attend. We’ll at the Oregon Convention Center, room D131. Stop by sometime during the day if you’re in town! Here’s our schedule: 10am: What’s new in 9.0 – [...]
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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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 to [...]
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(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 [...]
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The opening talk about Processing was really cool. On Sunday, I’d talked with Schwern and Tom Limoncelli about women’s participation in computer science. Schwern mentioned some neat visual programming environments. I think that Processing seemed like something in that direction. I want to play with it! The overcoming bias talk was pretty boring. The idea [...]
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I also saw Larry Wall’s Perl 6 talk – i need to look up implicit list comprehension and DFA/NFA regex syntax. Lots of neat stuff, I wish Perl 6 were coming sooner. Luke Kanies also gave a talk about Puppet. I thought it was great, but heard some negative stuff about it from someone else. [...]
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This is from my notes.. no real organization. First, I saw Tim O’Reilly do his radar talk. It seemed like a re-hash of some ideas about open data I’d heard him talk about before (last year?). His success factors for open source projects were: frictionless distro, collaborative development, freedom to build/adapt/extend and the freedom to [...]
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I attended a “women in open source community ” BoF last night. I think that the intention for the BoF was good. But despite the efforts of the moderator, the discussion looped repeatedly on personal problems, and didn’t get very far into the meat of what we might really do to get more women into [...]
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