Hello all,
I'm back from my one-day trip to the Linuxday 2007, this year in
Berlin. The German PG User Group was not present with a booth. My trip
was (among other things) to decide, if we will have a booth next year.
Judging last and this years visitors, the LD seems to be back in
business, so i recommend to be present in 2008.
The different BSD groups want to organize some more presence and have
asked, if we want to join them in something like "BSD use cases".
Sounds interesting to me, also because the BSD groups did a great job
with flyer sponsoring (they have some really good PostgreSQL flyers
available) in the past and helped out from time to time, if we had to
leave the booth for a short time. The BSD people have the same problem
as the PostgreSQL people: it seems, that many companies are using
PostgreSQL. But since the BSD license does not require to publish the
source or even tell the customer, what OS/database is used, almost
nobody knows about BSD/PostgreSQL. Why do we know? From time to time,
this companies have a problem they cannot solve and then they are
asking in a forum, on a mailinglist or even on IRC. But we should not
wait until problems appear, if we want to know about the PostgreSQL
usage in companies.
GIS is a very hot theme: the freeGIS group was present, flightgear is
using PG and GIS for storing map data. Intevation GmbH is providing GIS
solutions and support for authorities.
Kind regards
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
