{"id":357,"date":"2008-05-28T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/28\/pgcon-2008-big-announcements-community-conversations\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:56:30","slug":"pgcon-2008-big-announcements-community-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/28\/pgcon-2008-big-announcements-community-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"PgCon 2008 &#8211; big announcements, community conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PgCon was a very exciting conference, with a lot of people from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America traveling to be part of it. I read that 175 people attended, and based on how crowded both parties were, it&#8217;s not hard to believe!<\/p>\n<p>The biggest announcement for me was that the PostgreSQL Europe is finally a non-profit organization! I made a slide for my lightning talk with Magnus, Gabriele, Jean-Paul and Andreas on it: <\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/28\/pgcon-2008-big-announcements-community-conversations\/pgeu-announced\/' rel='attachment wp-att-358' title='PgEU announced'><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/user-groups-1.jpg' alt='PgEU announced' width=\"300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I got a ton of great feedback about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/22\/pgcon-lightning-talk-user-groupalooza\/\">User Groupalooza slides<\/a>. I also enjoyed meeting Jean-Paul Argudo, a fellow Drupaler. <\/p>\n<p>There were a bunch of community-focused conversations, some focused inward on developers, some looking out to the rest of the world from inside Pg, and others from the outside looking in: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/98.en.html\">Bruce Momjian&#8217;s Keynote<\/a> &#8211; Bruce looked at the future of Pg development from the perspective of a 12-year veteran. This was an inspirational talk, and many people referenced his thoughts throughout the rest of the conference. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/85.en.html\">Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s Pg Project management<\/a> &#8211; Andrew started a conversation among Pg developers about how development is *supposed* to happen, how it actually happens, and what the dev community might do to change things or leave them as they are<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/111.en.html\">Susanne Ebrecht&#8217;s talk on what PostgreSQL could learn from MySQL<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/60.en.html\">Lightning Talks<\/a> &#8211; I did the lightning talk on User Groups<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/64.en.html\">Peter Eisenstraut&#8217;s talk on Release Management<\/a>. This talk was a lot about the infrastructure and an overview of how the project manages software releases.  It included a list of active developers, overview of what -core actually does, and descriptions of various duties people are performing to maintain postgresql.org and the associated services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the talks were recorded, so I look forward to listening to them again &#8211; without the distraction of Twitter! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A couple talks I thought were really great for web developers were: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/75.en.html\">Magnus Hagander&#8217;s search.postgresql.org<\/a> talk gave some great examples and code showing how to use PostgreSQL&#8217;s tsearch capabilities with a PHP-based website. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcon.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/95.en.html\">Clark Evan&#8217;s talk on HTSQL<\/a>, a REST-ful web inteface application. It looks pretty cool and I&#8217;m interested in trying it out.  They are using it for medical records report generation and have even given the ability to generate queries to the end users. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks so much to Dan who got me to the conference this year!  I learned a lot, and really enjoyed meeting so many people that I&#8217;ve only communicated with over email for the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PgCon was a very exciting conference, with a lot of people from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America traveling to be part of it. I read that 175 people attended, and based on how crowded both parties were, it&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/28\/pgcon-2008-big-announcements-community-conversations\/\">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":[60,25,97,9,11],"tags":[112,648,110,647,624],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-conference","category-postgres","category-postgresql","category-user-groups","tag-highlights","tag-pgcon","tag-pgcon08","tag-postgres","tag-postgresql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}