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| From: | "Chris Mair" <chris(at)1006(dot)org> |
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| Subject: | Re: Upcoming PostgreSQL conferences (next 12 months) |
| Date: | 2007-09-04 12:22:05 |
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>> What is the purpose of these conferences? Why are there so many?
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>> Surely if you want to get people together, we'd have just one?
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>hello simon ...
>
>we were thinking of repeating the Prato event next year in Vienna
>(Austria). I have already talked to some people in Germany about
>that
>and it seems that the persons I have talked to like the idea. I
>contacted the city of Vienna today to see if we can get some
>support
>from those people (they use PostgreSQL so they should be
>interested).
>
>this is just an idea up to now but i think it makes sense to do an
>event
>in Europe once a year or so.
Hi,
from what I've heared in the newborn eu list and from the prato
people
at this moment half of europe wants to do PostgreSQL conferences :-)
Maybe we should discuss this (again) on the eu list.... so we can be
sure that just one conference labels itself as "international" and
we don't drain each others guests from other continents?
Then again, I'd like Vienna. It would be a reasonably short travel
for
me ;)
Bye,
Chris.
| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | "Chris Mair" <chris(at)1006(dot)org>, " Hans-Jürgen =?utf-8?q?_Sch=C3=B6nig?=" <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
| Subject: | Re: Upcoming PostgreSQL conferences (next 12 months) |
| Date: | 2007-09-04 15:59:02 |
| Message-ID: | 200709040859.02694.josh@agliodbs.com |
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All,
> What is the purpose of these conferences? Why are there so many?
It seems to be the way that PostgreSQL events are growing organically. We
seem to be a very decentralized project. Partly it's also timing; in the
world of tech conferences, the current trend is for smaller, thriftier,
regional conferences (e.g. the growth of "LinuxFest [location]" and the
collapse of LinuxWorld).
Also, we (the community) don't seem to be yet capable of filling a worldwide
1000-attendee conference, while having any number of locally sponsored
conferences between 50 and 200 attendees doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe
PGCon will grow to MySQLCon/DebConf size but I expect that's not for a few
years yet.
Means a lot of frequent flyer miles for me, though.
> Maybe we should discuss this (again) on the eu list.... so we can be
> sure that just one conference labels itself as "international" and
> we don't drain each others guests from other continents?
Yeah, this is important. I doubt that I can speak at more than one EU
PostgreSQL conference, especially since we're also committed to a large
presence at FOSDEM (or have people forgotten this?).
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco