{"id":2499,"date":"2011-02-08T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:51:54","slug":"invited-lecture-at-oregon-state-university-postgresql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/08\/invited-lecture-at-oregon-state-university-postgresql\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited lecture at Oregon State University: PostgreSQL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon State University invited me to give a technical talk yesterday about PostgreSQL and open source community. It was aimed at graduate level students, and an attempt to recruit them. <\/p>\n

It’s not in the slides, but I told a short story in the ‘but there’s a disconnect’ slide. I wanted to convey to them that both the free and open source community and the educational system are failing them when it comes to open source. I attended a conference last fall that had nearly 1000 undergraduate and graduate students. I staffed a booth about open source software, and nearly every student that dropped by couldn’t think of a single open source project they’d ever heard of<\/a>. With prompting, they’d agree that Linux was probably open source.<\/p>\n

We had a discussion about how our community manages conflict, who the big production users of PostgreSQL are, and how folks can get involved. I gave out a few tshirts and buttons, and ran into some old friends<\/a> from Open Source Bridge. <\/p>\n