Re: Newbie question about various convention content

[Bob Zurek <bob(dot)zurek(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>]

Hmm, the call for papers is saying December 17th on the website here.

http://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_submission/

Bob


On 12/17/07 10:42 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
>> I see that there are two up and coming PostgreSQL conventions:
>>  
>> http://www.postgresqlconference.org/
>>  
>> http://www.pgcon.org/2008/
>>  
>> 
>> I am curious, are these conventions similar in nature or are they different
>> animals altogether?
> 
> They are both PostgreSQL Conferences. PgCon is run by community member
> Dan Langille and is a for profit venture. It is tied to the BSDCon that
> he also runs. Although I have not gone, I have heard good things about
> it. It is held in Canada.
> 
> PostgreSQL Conference is a community conference, run entirely by
> community members of which I am one of the organizers. 100% of the
> proceeds are 501c3 donations given to the PostgreSQL affiliated
> non-profit Software in the Public Interest. It is being held in College
> Park, Maryland.
> 
> You can see our reasoning for PostgreSQL Conference here:
> 
> http://www.postgresqlconference.org/why/
> 
> Our current committees are here:
> 
> http://www.postgresqlconference.org/contact/
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joshua D. Drake
> 
> 
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