{"id":3386,"date":"2011-10-18T22:46:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:50:55","slug":"day-0-pgconf-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/10\/18\/day-0-pgconf-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 0: PgConf.EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was spent settling into the Casa 400 and reconnecting with the European Postgres community!<\/p>\n<p>The hotel allowed us to check in very early and so I got to settle in, grab lunch and a nap before we set out for the evening. <\/p>\n<p>We had informally decided to go on a pub crawl with whoever was already in town. The decision making about where to go started around 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>We now have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/u-suke\/101236328\/\">about five years<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/selenamarie\/3259324875\/in\/photostream\/\">experience trying<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/andreas.scherbaum.la\/pictures\/v\/events\/fosdem_2008\/dsc_3475_640x480.jpg.html\">get 20 or more<\/a> people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/selenamarie\/3260724507\/in\/photostream\/\">into bars and restaurants<\/a> without calling ahead and last night, luck was with us!<\/p>\n<p>I broke down our lessons learned as follows: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start the planning one hour before the intended departure time.<\/li>\n<li>Have a printed map, even if it is not consulted.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for help from locals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Greg, we actually asked a local bar owner about where to go, and he called a friend&#8217;s restaurant for us! <\/p>\n<p>We ended up at Nels for dinner with nearly 25 people taking over most of the restaurant. I was lucky enough to have a friend in town from Portland that joined us for a long conversation about marketing, PostgreSQL, geek cruises and aircraft carriers. I think I have a topic now for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.eu\/events\/schedule\/pgconfeu2011\/session\/217-lightning-talks\/\">lightning talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we walked around searching for ice cream for <a href=\"http:\/\/andreas.scherbaum.la\/blog\/\">Ads<\/a>. We ended up at Pasta e Basta, which had ice cream and singing wait staff. After hearing &#8220;Hit the road, Jack&#8221;, &#8220;Here comes the sun&#8221; and a few other tunes, we closed out the night at the hotel bar. <\/p>\n<p>I got to meet the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gciolli\/pgChess\">pgChess<\/a>, Gianni Ciolli, and catch up with Jonathan Katz, Dimitri Fontaine and Peter Geoghegan. <\/p>\n<p>All in all, a great start to the week at the conference!  I&#8217;ll be room hosting this afternoon in room #3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was spent settling into the Casa 400 and reconnecting with the European Postgres community! The hotel allowed us to check in very early and so I got to settle in, grab lunch and a nap before we set out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/10\/18\/day-0-pgconf-eu\/\">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":[97,9],"tags":[501,647],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-pgconf-eu","tag-postgres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}