{"id":3325,"date":"2011-09-02T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:50:57","slug":"looking-toward-chicago-postgres-open-local-user-groups-parties-and-on-to-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/09\/02\/looking-toward-chicago-postgres-open-local-user-groups-parties-and-on-to-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking toward Chicago: Postgres Open, local user groups, parties and on to October!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been incredibly busy this past month, and not blogging &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/07\/12\/shaking-the-etch-a-sketch\/\">being a free agent<\/a> has possibly made me busier than I was before!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\/2011\/schedule\">Postgres Open&#8217;s schedule<\/a> is in near-final state. We&#8217;ve started adding talks to our Demo room on Thursday, and are looking forward to a <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\/2011\/schedule\/presentations\/1\/\">keynote from Charles Fan, SVP at VMWare<\/a> about recent developments in vmware&#8217;s cloud offerings for Postgres. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also be getting a more in-depth look at Heroku&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/postgres.heroku.com\">postgres.heroku.com<\/a> on-demand database service, as well as an open source tool they wrote called <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\/2011\/schedule\/presentations\/87\/\">WAL-E<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Heroku, we&#8217;ll be streaming much of the content from the conference live, so you&#8217;ll be able to catch the keynotes and many of the talks, even if you&#8217;re not there. And we&#8217;ll be sharing the videos after. <\/p>\n<p>I believe we&#8217;re the first Postgres conference to do this! Someone correct me if I&#8217;m wrong. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m in Chicago, I&#8217;m planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Windy-City-Perl-mongers-Meetup\/events\/31544172\/\">drop by the Windy City Perl Mongers<\/a> for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscon.com\/oscon2011\/public\/schedule\/detail\/19275\">reprise of my 9.1 talk from OSCON<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also planning a couple parties for Postgres Open, and hopefully inviting a few of the local user groups to join us. <\/p>\n<p>After that, I&#8217;m headed in October to PostgreSQL Conference EU, and will be giving a talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.eu\/events\/sessions\/pgconfeu2011\/session\/152-managing-terabytes\/\">terabyte Postgres databases<\/a> (and the problems you run into with them), and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.eu\/events\/sessions\/pgconfeu2011\/session\/150-more-mistakes-were-made\/\">database-specific &#8220;Mistakes were Made&#8221;<\/a> talk, about operations and the tools we need to use to help us make fewer mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been incredibly busy this past month, and not blogging &#8211; being a free agent has possibly made me busier than I was before! Postgres Open&#8217;s schedule is in near-final state. We&#8217;ve started adding talks to our Demo room on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/09\/02\/looking-toward-chicago-postgres-open-local-user-groups-parties-and-on-to-october\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,97,9],"tags":[633,485,647,486,624,664],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgcon","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-conference","tag-pgconfeu","tag-postgres","tag-postgres-open","tag-postgresql","tag-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","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=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}