{"id":3751,"date":"2012-03-09T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:50:53","slug":"postgres-open-2012-sql-server-guys-discover-postgres-tom-lanes-quote-of-the-week-gsoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/09\/postgres-open-2012-sql-server-guys-discover-postgres-tom-lanes-quote-of-the-week-gsoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgres Open 2012, SQL Server Guys discover Postgres, Tom Lane&#8217;s quote of the week &#038; GSoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\">Postgres Open<\/a>&#8216;s website is back up! Next week, we&#8217;ll be announcing sponsorship opportunities for 2012 and opening our Call for Speakers shortly after. <\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rl_-lKxSBm4\">IT guys discovered Postgres<\/a> and made a series of videos about what they&#8217;re learning. They came from Windows backgrounds, so their observations were a great introduction to what it&#8217;s like for non-Linux-y people when they first try Postgres out.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTom Lane reminded us all that <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/message-id\/23264.1331232268@sss.pgh.pa.us\">proper maintenance of code involves maintaining comments<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.postgresql.org\/wiki\/GSoC_2012\">PostgreSQL Global Development Group is applying for GSoC 2012<\/a>! Thanks very much to Thom Brown and Josh Berkus for being our admins this year.<\/p>\n<p>Have ideas for projects? Or are you a student interested in applying? Contact <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-students\/\">pgsql-students<\/a> with your ideas now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! Postgres Open&#8216;s website is back up! Next week, we&#8217;ll be announcing sponsorship opportunities for 2012 and opening our Call for Speakers shortly after. Some IT guys discovered Postgres and made a series of videos about what they&#8217;re learning. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/09\/postgres-open-2012-sql-server-guys-discover-postgres-tom-lanes-quote-of-the-week-gsoc\/\">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":[366,647],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-gsoc","tag-postgres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","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=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}