{"id":3065,"date":"2011-12-30T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T18:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?page_id=3065"},"modified":"2016-12-18T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T22:48:15","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\">create<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\">run<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2011\/public\/schedule\/speaker\/6486\">participate<\/a> in a lot of technical conferences. My focus is on open source, and in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresql.org\">PostgreSQL<\/a>. I write frequently about the conferences I attend, and try to categorize that stuff under &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/tag\/conference\/\">conference<\/a>&#8220;. Conferences I&#039;ve started:<br \/>\n*   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/announcing-postgres-open\/\">Postgres Open<\/a>: a conference focusing on the business of PostgreSQL and disruption of the database industry<br \/>\n*   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/29\/open-source-bridge\/\">Open Source Bridge<\/a>: My first blog post about Open Source Bridge.<br \/>\n*   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/17\/postgresql-conference-in-portland-on-october-20th\/\">PostgreSQL Conference<\/a>: first of three conferences I organized before ending my involvement with the series. Ignite:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/26\/ignite-was-fun-some-links\/\">Ignite was fun, some links<\/a>: after my first ignite talk about surveys. Ugh &#8211; not my best talk!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/02\/20\/how-to-kill-4-chickens-in-3-years\/\">How to kill 4 chickens in 3 years<\/a>: My second ignite talk. It was pretty sweet<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cZ7qm6yglfE\">How to unrig an election<\/a>: My third Ignite talk about how a group of people unrigged an election in Ondo State, Nigeria Giving Talks:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"\/daily\/2010\/10\/07\/training-lessons-learned-code-dojo-whiteboards-interactivity\/\">Training Lessions Learned: Code, Dojo, Whiteboards, Interactivity<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/20\/giving-good-talks-presentation\/\">Giving Good Talks presentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/09\/28\/responding-to-offensive-presentations-at-conferences\/\">Responding to offensive presentations at conferences<\/a>: More aimed toward conference organizers and participants Making Conferences:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/07\/collaboration-conflict-people\/\">Collaboration = conflict + people<\/a> Women&#039;s involvement (coding, conferences, speaking):<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/28\/my-women-in-tech-article-is-up\/\">To Sir, With Love<\/a>: essay about women in tech that I wrote for O&#039;Reilly<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/daily\/2008\/04\/02\/women-who-code-where-are-they\/\">Women who code: where are they?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/04\/29\/whats-changed-portland-as-an-example-of-increasing-womens-participation\/\">What&#039;s changed? Portland as an example of increasing women&#039;s participation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/daily\/2009\/04\/27\/what-works-getting-more-women-involved-in-open-source\/\">What works? Getting more women involved in open source<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/02\/08\/unlocking-the-clubhouse-cultural-resistance-and-learning-communitiesand\/\">Unlocking the clubhouse: cultural resistance and learning communities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/24\/ada-lovelace-day-professor-leah-buechley\/\">Ada Lovelace Day: Professor Leah Buechley<\/a>: I met Leah on a trip to Boston for Libre Planet. She&#039;s awesome.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/08\/30\/a-women-focused-users-group-the-very-very-beginning\/\">A women-focused users group: the very, very beginning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/01\/participation-in-open-source-any-worse-than-the-rest-of-the-industry\/\">Participation in open source: any worse than the rest of the industry?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/11\/09\/its-not-just-noirin\/\">It&#039;s not just Noirin<\/a>: A brief essay in response to an assault that occurred at a technical conference. <\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/07\/23\/getting-ready-for-oscon-code-of-conduct-and-cultural-change\/\">Getting ready for OSCON: code of conduct and cultural change<\/a> Portland and conferences<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/15\/this-year-is-so-nuts-for-having-conferences-in-portland-or\/\">This year (2011) is so nuts for having conferences in Portland, OR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/08\/event-organizers-spaces-to-have-tech-events-or-conferences-in-portland\/\">Event Organizers: Spaces to have tech events or conferences in Portland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/17\/this-town-needs\/\">This down needs&#8230;<\/a>: Beginning of three essays on the nature of tech community, growth in our industry and what we should really be working on to make Portland an awesome place for startups.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/18\/space-and-time-to-help-our-neighbors\/\">Space and time to help our neighbors<\/a>: a short essay in response to a negative assessment of how the Portland tech community functions.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/19\/we-need-vision-and-collaboration\/\">We need vision and collaboration<\/a>: a short essay on the types of collaboration events we need in Portland Conferences and events I&#039;ve helped organize:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2009\/07\/29\/opensql-camp-comes-to-portland-november-14-15-2009\/\">Open SQL Camp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/01\/03\/2010-retrospective\/\">2010 Retrospective<\/a>: Mention of IgniteGov (the first ever!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/20\/october-is-a-month-of-many-conferences\/\">October is a month of many conferences<\/a>: Mention of WhereCampPDX<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/04\/28\/my-other-things\/\">My Other Things<\/a>: Mention of BarCampPortland I&#039;ve also been on the organizing committees for: OSCON Data 2011, MySQL Users Conference 2011, PgCon 2011, PgCon 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I create, run and participate in a lot of technical conferences. My focus is on open source, and in particular PostgreSQL. I write frequently about the conferences I attend, and try to categorize that stuff under &#8220;conference&#8220;. Conferences I&#039;ve started: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/conferences\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3065\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}