Category “Conferences” — 104 articles

The previous article FOSDEM 2013 said to be careful with the PostgreSQL devroom schedule because one of my talks there might get swapped with a slot on the FOSDEM PGDay 2013 which happens this Friday and has been sold out anyway. Turns out it’s not true, because we still depend on past century technologies somehow. Not everybody will be looking at the schedule on the web using a connected mobile device (you know, you’ve heard of them, those tracking and surveillance devices, if you want to believe Stallman), and as the schedule gets printed on little paper sheets, it’s unfortunately too late to change it now.

This year again I’m going to FOSDEM, and to the extra special PostgreSQL FOSDEM day. It will be the first time that I’m going to be at the event for the full week-end rather than just commuting in for the day. *I'm Going to the FOSDEM, hope to see you there!* And I’m presenting two talks over there that are both currently scheduled on the Sunday in the PostgreSQL devroom. We’re talking about changing that though, so that one of those will in fact happen this Friday at the FOSDEM PGDay 2013, which has a different schedule, so consider watching for that.

As Guillaume says, we’ve been enjoying a great evening conference in Lyon 2 days ago, presenting PostgreSQL to developers. He did the first hour presenting the project and the main things you want to know to start using PostgreSQL in production, then I took the opportunity to be talking to developers to show off some SQL. That slide deck contains mainly SQL language, but some french too, rather than english. Sorry for the inconvenience if that’s not something you can read.

Last week was PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 in Prague, and it’s been awesome. Many thanks to the organisers who did manage to host a very smooth conference with 290 attendees, including speakers. That means you kept walking into interesting people to talk to, and in particular the Hallway Track has been a giant success. *Photo by [Oleg Bartunov](http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/)* I did have the chance to speak several times at that event, and you can get the slides at my Conferences page that I try to keep up to date.

The PostgreSQL community host a number of conferences all over the year, and the next ones I’m lucky enough to get to are approaching fast now. First, next month in September, we have Postgres Open in Chicago, where my talk about Large Scale Migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL has been selected! This talk shares hindsights about the why and the how of that migration, what problems couldn’t be solved without moving away and how the solution now looks.