{"id":4368,"date":"2012-08-15T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T01:08:15","slug":"submissions-for-lightning-talks-for-postgres-open-being-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/15\/submissions-for-lightning-talks-for-postgres-open-being-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"Submissions for Lightning Talks for Postgres Open being accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By popular demand, we&#8217;re having a session of lightning talks at <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\/2012\/home\">Postgres Open<\/a> this year!<\/p>\n<p>What is a lightning talk, you ask?  It&#8217;s a 5-minute talk on a topic of your choosing.  (For this conference, it should be at least vaguely postgres- or database-related.)  Make it as serious or entertaining as you like.  If you&#8217;ve never given a talk at a conference before, this is a great way to try it out.  The audience is forgiving, and it&#8217;s only 5 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>Slides are not required, but are helpful.<\/p>\n<p>The session will be 5pm &#8211; 6pm on Tuesday, Sept 18.  <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dGlBcWxmeVFZZjFfenFOdXAxWjFqZVE6MQ#gid=0\">Sign up today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a limited number of spaces, so get your talks in now! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/pdxpug.wordpress.com\/\">Gabrielle<\/a> for writing this blog post!)<\/p>\n<p>(And psst &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\/2012\/tickets\">don&#8217;t forget to buy your tickets<\/a>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By popular demand, we&#8217;re having a session of lightning talks at Postgres Open this year! What is a lightning talk, you ask? It&#8217;s a 5-minute talk on a topic of your choosing. (For this conference, it should be at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/08\/15\/submissions-for-lightning-talks-for-postgres-open-being-accepted\/\">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":[9],"tags":[111,486,585],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgresql","tag-lightning-talks","tag-postgres-open","tag-submissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","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=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}