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Cluster Developer Meeting recap

Thursday, November 19, 2009

UPDATE: See bottom of post.
We held a PostgreSQL cluster developer meeting on Thursday, November 19, 2009 in Tokyo. About 25 people were in attendance, and seven projects presented status updates. Projects represented included pgCluster, PostgresForest, Postgres-R, Streaming Replication (slated to be included in core for version 8.5), Postgres-2 (not quite available), GridSQL, the Skype [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Flossmanuals.net [...]

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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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User Group Idea: The After-party

Sunday, October 4, 2009

User group meetings are fundamentally places for people to meet each other. My user groups have rituals – we start off by asking a silly question of everyone as an ice breaker, we introduce our speakers with something personal, and we end every meeting with a trip to a local pub. This is the after-party, [...]

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Snow Leopard and PostgreSQL: installation help links

Sunday, October 4, 2009

A few reports of issues have been raised on the mailing lists around upgrading to Snow Leopard. There have been some good tutorials and hints posted on blogs that aren’t in the planet.postgresql.org roll, so here are a few things that might help you out:

Installing PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard 10.6
Snow Leopard wipes out the [...]

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User Group Idea: Present what you do for work

Monday, September 28, 2009

One consistently interesting topic for our PDXPUG meetings has essentially been show and tell. Presenters answer the question: what is it that I do for work?
We’ve had oceanography, GIS, relational algebra and even MySQL presentations that stem from this idea.
For the most part, those of us who do database work are so specialized that [...]

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User Group Idea: Patch Review Party

Friday, September 18, 2009

On Tuesday, I invited a group of people from PDXPUG over to my house for chili, beer and patch review. PostgreSQL has what we’re calling a ‘commitfest‘ every two months where we buckle down and try to review and commit (or reject) the patches submitted over the last few weeks. Webb and Gabrielle had the [...]

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OpenSQL Camp comes to Portland! November 14-15, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

I’m happy to announce that Portland, OR will be host to the next OpenSQL Camp, Portland. We’ll be holding it November 14-15, 2009.
Patterned after the first Open SQL camp held in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, in November 2008, we’re inviting any and all database practitioners (even the non-SQL, non-relational ones!) to join us for two days [...]

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