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PgCon 2008 - big announcements, community conversations

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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 […]

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PgCon Lightning talk: User Groupalooza

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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 […]

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PgCon in Ottawa - following people on twitter

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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 […]

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geekspeakr.com

Monday, April 14, 2008

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!

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PostgreSQL Conference East - this Saturday and Sunday

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

We’re wrapping up all the little details for the conference:

Wireless access is secured! Each person will have their own account. You’ll receive it when you register.
Our final schedule is available!
The last few talks have been rolling in. I’m very excited about the round table Sunday morning with Joshua Drake (USPA and PostgreSQL […]

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extreme database makeover: RT meeting recap

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

[Update: David Wheeler provided the SQL that came out of this meeting.]

Last night, PDXPUG and Code-n-Splode got together to refactor the database for RT. David Wheeler, Jeff Davis and Mark Wong led the discussion.
Through the course of the meeting, the group chose to pick out a few key features that would be better served […]

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LAPUG Launch!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Saturday night, February 9, at 8pm, Richard Broersma and a crew of 15 launched LAPUG. Noel Proffitt, from the City of Garden Grove, gave a great talk on time-oriented (or temporal) database design.
He presented an example of a set of columns, rules and triggers for tracking both valid and transaction time. Noel also […]

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Calagator, Ignite Portland, new PUGS site, geek2geek, SCALE — whew!

Monday, January 28, 2008

I’ve been filling my time with some community and open source work.
First, I’m working with Audrey and some other fabulous community members on Calagator, open-source calendar aggregation with teeth! Our next codesprint is coming up on February 2. Everyone is welcome!
Ignite Portland is coming up on February 5, aka Super Tuesday. We’re […]

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legion of tech

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

I recently joined the board of a tech non-profit called Legion of Tech. Our goals are:

Grow and nurture the local Portland technology community through educational, not-for-profit, community-run events.
Make it easier for community members to organize technology events.
Provide resources and assistance for technology community events.

Dawn also just wrote about it. We had a great […]

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december coder’s bash - thanks, sam

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

I made it out for the last hour or so of the December Coder’s Bash last night. The first thing I noticed was how many people were there! At least 50 were still hanging out at 9:15pm on a Tuesday night.
They were chatting and playing games — Settlers of Catan, some kind of […]

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