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Server Sky presentation, with Personal Telco folks, tomorrow in PDX at 6:30pm

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The following email just dropped into my inbox, and I had to share. Keith is a fixture in the Portland tech community – running Linux clinics (scroll down the page for info), volunteering at FreeGeek, attending user group meetings and occasionally presenting.
He’s got this crazy idea – provide computing services from orbit. It involves [...]

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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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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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Twitter and PostgreSQL!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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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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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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Leading without being in charge: updated slides for FOSDEM 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009

I’ve got a post about Heikki’s visibility map talk in the queue, but first I’ll post the updated slides for the user groups talk — Leading without being in charge.
Enjoy!

Leading Without Being In Charge
View more presentations from Selena Deckelmann. (tags: user groups)

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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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Leaving US PostgreSQL Assoc. – what’s next for me?

Thursday, August 28, 2008

image credit to bugbunnybambam

A few weeks ago, I decided to resign from the United States PostgreSQL Association board. Shortly after, I left for a long vacation where I thought about what I wanted to do next – both professionally and in a volunteer capacity.
Looking back, I started volunteering for PostgreSQL two years ago. I’ve [...]

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Running a Successful User Group

Sunday, July 27, 2008

After the People For Geeks talk, I presented “Running a Successful User Group” with Gabrielle Roth on Wednesday. You can find our slides and our presentation handout over on Bacon and Tech. The handout is pretty cool, take a minute and print it out!

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