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Unlocking the clubhouse: cultural resistance and learning communities

Monday, February 8, 2010

I finished reading “Unlocking the clubhouse” on Saturday, finally. The book is only about 150 pages long, but it’s full of useful information about increasing participation of women in computer science.
The chapter that most stuck with me was chapter 6, “Persistence and Resistance: Staying in Computer Science.” I have said more than once, in [...]

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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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What’s changed? Portland as an example of increasing women’s participation.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

At Code-n-Splode last night, we first heard Christie Koehler give a great talk on CodeIgniter, the one PHP web framework endorsed by Rasmus Lerdorf, original author of PHP. She went over the pros/cons, details of how you go about installing and then using CodeIgniter, and then showed a very detailed example from her recent [...]

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Twitter and PostgreSQL!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

On pgsql-general, Doug Hunley mentioned he’d created a twitter account for pgsql-announce! Way cool.
I’d written during last PgCon about Postgres and Twitter, and I figured it was time for a new list of Postgres-related people who I follow! Especially since a few people commented that Twitter was a waste of [...]

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New user group: Puppet PDX

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Zombie puppet teaser…
Just a quick note that I’m helping start Puppet PDX and I posted some details over here. Configuration management is awesome stuff, and if you live in the Portland area, you should come check out the new group. We’re meeting at Paddy’s, 6pm on 2/27/09.

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Waffle-induced development

Thursday, February 12, 2009

My waffles will probably not look as good as this.
People often ask me for advice on how to motivate and get people excited about coming to meetings, participating in user groups and contributing to projects. I’m going to try to blog more about the things I do that work.
Friends in Portland know that I often [...]

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A year of PDXPUG

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Last year was the third year that PDXPUG has been operating in Portland, and I decided to look back at our year of meetings. Here goes:
January 11 – 10 things you can use in PostgreSQL 8.3
February 26 – Extreme Database Makeover: RT
March 20 – Managing Internet Services: Using the right tool for the [...]

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PostgreSQL Conference: Friday night dinner

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

How to have fun, PostgreSQL-style
Those of you in town on Friday evening are welcome to join us at Paddy’s at 6pm for dinner:
Paddy’s Bar & Grill
65 SW Yamhill St
Portland, OR 97204
The reservation is under ‘Selena’, and we’ll be sitting in the front. The MAX runs directly in front of the restaurant.
Food is good – [...]

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User Groups redux

Thursday, September 4, 2008

actually, i love this cup. thanks, eric!
It’s a bit late for an “announcement”, but Gabrielle and I are re-presenting the User Groups talk to the Portland Linux Users Group tonight. We’re all about audience participation, and so we’re going to focus on helping PLUG pick a few topics and presenters for upcoming meetings. [...]

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