{"id":164,"date":"2007-10-22T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/22\/conference-aftermath-tired-happy\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:57:10","slug":"conference-aftermath-tired-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/22\/conference-aftermath-tired-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"conference aftermath: tired, happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conference was insanely great. We had incredible speakers, plentiful coffee, good food and amazing volunteers. I met so many new people and heard about a number of interesting projects that I&#8217;ll be following up on and writing about soon. Thank you to Joshua Drake and Josh Berkus for helping organize all of the big and small details.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the sponsors: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Command Prompt, Inc. &#8211; and Joshua Drake for his talk on PL\/Proxy<\/li>\n<li>Continuent- and Robert Hodges in particular for giving his talk about uni\/cluster<\/li>\n<li>EnterpriseDB<\/li>\n<li>Greenplum<\/li>\n<li>Hyperic &#8211; nice to meet you John Walker!<\/li>\n<li>OmniTi &#8211; and Robert Treat in particular for his talk on partitioning<\/li>\n<li>Open Technology Group<\/li>\n<li>Sun Microsystems, Inc. &#8211; and to Josh Berkus for his keynote on what&#8217;s new in version 8.3<\/li>\n<li>Truviso &#8211; and Neil Conway for his talk about Query Execution, which many people wished could have continued<\/li>\n<li>The Linux Fund &#8211; who also brought Kristine to help manage the registration desk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And special thanks to: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stonehenge, Inc. &#8211; who sponsored afternoon snacks<\/li>\n<li>Green Frog Consulting &#8211; Allen Bernstein recorded video all day<\/li>\n<li>Portland State University and the Graduate Student Council &#8211; thanks for hosting us and special thanks to Rafael Fern\u00c3\u00a1ndez-Moctezuma for fixing the last-minute A\/V problems, suggesting a coffee run in the afternoon, and just being MVP all day!<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Browning &#8211; he took some <a href=\"http:\/\/db.endpoint.com\/pgcon07\/\">fantastic pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you everyone for making it happen!  There were a few people that I started conversations with but inevitably got interrupted &#8211; please get in touch. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a week of recovery (well, except for my presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igniteportland.com\/\">Ignite<\/a> on Thursday!), before I head off to New Orleans. I hope to have the audio from the conference available before I leave Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference was insanely great. We had incredible speakers, plentiful coffee, good food and amazing volunteers. I met so many new people and heard about a number of interesting projects that I&#8217;ll be following up on and writing about soon. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/22\/conference-aftermath-tired-happy\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16,97,9],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-pdxpug","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-postgres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}