Thread: Inofficial call for papers FOSDEM 2008

Hello all,

we need to plan the FOSDEM in early 2008 in Brussels.
As stated in earlier mails we try to get a dedicated devroom in
cooperation with *BSD.

This means, we will have 18 slots for talks on two days, 9 for PG, 9 for BSD.
That means, we have to fill this 9 slots (plus 1, 2 standby). This mail
is just a request to let me know, if we will have this talks available.
This is not an official application, that will be around october,
november. I talked with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD project about
the devroom and he asked me, if we can have this devroom together and
if the PostgreSQL project can fill the available timeslots.

So, hands up (or mail me), who is interested and what kind of talk you want to give.


Kind regads

--
                Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
 (Ferenc Mantfeld)

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:04:39 +0200 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:

> we need to plan the FOSDEM in early 2008 in Brussels.
> As stated in earlier mails we try to get a dedicated devroom in
> cooperation with *BSD.
>
> This means, we will have 18 slots for talks on two days, 9 for PG, 9 for BSD.
> That means, we have to fill this 9 slots (plus 1, 2 standby). This mail
> is just a request to let me know, if we will have this talks available.
> This is not an official application, that will be around october,
> november. I talked with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD project about
> the devroom and he asked me, if we can have this devroom together and
> if the PostgreSQL project can fill the available timeslots.
>
> So, hands up (or mail me), who is interested and what kind of talk you want to give.

FOSDEM in Brussels in on the radar and we should make plans. The event takes
place 23th and 24th february 2008.

I exchanged some mails with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD group in Germany,
he will try to get a devroom, which will get shared by BSD and PostgreSQL. If this
venture is successful, we have to come up with a plan for proposed talks.

Back in June, the time i wrote my initial mail, i got responses which made me think,
we will have enough talks to fill in our slots. Thats good, because without this
responses we did not had to plan about a devroom at all. But most answers was
about "i can give a talk about ...", but no exact theme names. A talk about 8.3 would
be nice, as example.

So anybody who wants to give a talk in our devroom at FOSDEM please send me
some more details along with the title, description and the info, in which category
you would put your talk. I will collect the informations and both forward them to
Daniel and summarize them here.

By the way, we will try to get a booth in any case so we could need some hands
for help.


Thanks & kind regards

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                Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 01:42 +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:04:39 +0200 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
> > we need to plan the FOSDEM in early 2008 in Brussels.
> > As stated in earlier mails we try to get a dedicated devroom in
> > cooperation with *BSD.
> >
> > This means, we will have 18 slots for talks on two days, 9 for PG, 9 for BSD.
> > That means, we have to fill this 9 slots (plus 1, 2 standby). This mail
> > is just a request to let me know, if we will have this talks available.
> > This is not an official application, that will be around october,
> > november. I talked with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD project about
> > the devroom and he asked me, if we can have this devroom together and
> > if the PostgreSQL project can fill the available timeslots.
> >
> > So, hands up (or mail me), who is interested and what kind of talk you want to give.
>
> FOSDEM in Brussels in on the radar and we should make plans. The event takes
> place 23th and 24th february 2008.
>
> I exchanged some mails with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD group in Germany,
> he will try to get a devroom, which will get shared by BSD and PostgreSQL. If this
> venture is successful, we have to come up with a plan for proposed talks.
>
> Back in June, the time i wrote my initial mail, i got responses which made me think,
> we will have enough talks to fill in our slots. Thats good, because without this
> responses we did not had to plan about a devroom at all. But most answers was
> about "i can give a talk about ...", but no exact theme names. A talk about 8.3 would
> be nice, as example.
>
> So anybody who wants to give a talk in our devroom at FOSDEM please send me
> some more details along with the title, description and the info, in which category
> you would put your talk. I will collect the informations and both forward them to
> Daniel and summarize them here.

ads,

I can make it to FOSDEM.

Can't see any list of previously proposed talks, so I'll just propose
these:

1. "PostgreSQL 8.3 New Features"

2. "PostgreSQL High Availability"

Will do the second talk if we don't have enough speakers or we have a
drop-out.

I'll be making use of the DevRoom and looking forward to discussing any
new features people want to talk about, depending upon which
developers/users turn up.

--
  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

ADS,

Put me down for a talk.  I can do any of the following:

50 Ways to Love Your Project / Life of a Patch (how to contribute to PG)*
Secure Your Database!
5 Steps to PostgreSQL Performance*
Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks
A Few of My Favorite 8.3 Features*
The Unpronouncable Acronym: JRGPS, Sun's enterprise OSS application stack
GUC You!  The 8.3 postgresql.conf guided tour.

Talks I've marked * are ones I already have canned, so if you
desparately need me to do 2 talks, I can do 2 if one of them is one of
the canned talks.

I can probably also get another Sun speaker.

Do we need sponsorship from anyone?

See you in Brussels!

--Josh

On Sunday 21 October 2007 17:06:55 Josh Berkus wrote:
> ADS,
>
> Put me down for a talk.  I can do any of the following:
>
> 50 Ways to Love Your Project / Life of a Patch (how to contribute to PG)*
> Secure Your Database!
> 5 Steps to PostgreSQL Performance*
> Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks
    Does this include running PostgreSQL in zones ??


> A Few of My Favorite 8.3 Features*
> The Unpronouncable Acronym: JRGPS, Sun's enterprise OSS application stack
> GUC You!  The 8.3 postgresql.conf guided tour.
> >
> Talks I've marked * are ones I already have canned, so if you
> desparately need me to do 2 talks, I can do 2 if one of them is one of
> the canned talks.
>
> I can probably also get another Sun speaker.
>
> Do we need sponsorship from anyone?
>
> See you in Brussels!
>
> --Josh
>
>
>
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:42:23AM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:04:39 +0200 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
> > we need to plan the FOSDEM in early 2008 in Brussels.  As stated
> > in earlier mails we try to get a dedicated devroom in cooperation
> > with *BSD.
> >
> > This means, we will have 18 slots for talks on two days, 9 for PG,
> > 9 for BSD.  That means, we have to fill this 9 slots (plus 1, 2
> > standby). This mail is just a request to let me know, if we will
> > have this talks available.  This is not an official application,
> > that will be around october, november. I talked with Daniel
> > Seuffert from the FreeBSD project about the devroom and he asked
> > me, if we can have this devroom together and if the PostgreSQL
> > project can fill the available timeslots.
> >
> > So, hands up (or mail me), who is interested and what kind of talk
> > you want to give.
>
> FOSDEM in Brussels in on the radar and we should make plans. The
> event takes place 23th and 24th february 2008.
>
> I exchanged some mails with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD group
> in Germany, he will try to get a devroom, which will get shared by
> BSD and PostgreSQL. If this venture is successful, we have to come
> up with a plan for proposed talks.
>
> Back in June, the time i wrote my initial mail, i got responses
> which made me think, we will have enough talks to fill in our slots.
> Thats good, because without this responses we did not had to plan
> about a devroom at all. But most answers was about "i can give a
> talk about ...", but no exact theme names. A talk about 8.3 would be
> nice, as example.
>
> So anybody who wants to give a talk in our devroom at FOSDEM please
> send me some more details along with the title, description and the
> info, in which category you would put your talk. I will collect the
> informations and both forward them to Daniel and summarize them
> here.

I can do any of:

Postgres: A Babel of PLs
Federating Databases with DBI-Link for Performance
DBI-Link 3.0
Scalable Object-Relational Mapping

Cheers,
David.
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Hi,

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 08:52 -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> > Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks
>         Does this include running PostgreSQL in zones ??

I don't think so -- otherwise it will be a 2-hour workshop thing, not a
talk ;)

Cheers,
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Devrim, Darcy,

> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 08:52 -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> > > Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks
> >
> >         Does this include running PostgreSQL in zones ??
>
> I don't think so -- otherwise it will be a 2-hour workshop thing, not a
> talk ;)

Gimmme a break.  I'll have 4 months to get it working!  ;-)

--
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PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:10:58 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> Devrim, Darcy,
>
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 08:52 -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> > > > Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks
> > >
> > >         Does this include running PostgreSQL in zones ??
> >
> > I don't think so -- otherwise it will be a 2-hour workshop thing,
> > not a talk ;)
>
> Gimmme a break.  I'll have 4 months to get it working!  ;-)
>

Yeah but then you will decide at the last minute to run on the
latest latest build of Solaris...

:P

Joshua D. Drake

P.S. That his talk wasn't any better :)



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Hello all,

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:42:23 +0200 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:

> So anybody who wants to give a talk in our devroom at FOSDEM please send me
> some more details along with the title, description and the info, in which category
> you would put your talk. I will collect the informations and both forward them to
> Daniel and summarize them here.

ok, here are the talks so far:

Simon Riggs:
- "PostgreSQL 8.3 New Features" or
- "PostgreSQL High Availability"

Josh Berkus:
- "50 Ways to Love Your Project / Life of a Patch" or
- "Secure Your Database!" or
- "5 Steps to PostgreSQL Performance" or
- "Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks" or
- "A Few of My Favorite 8.3 Features" or
- "The Unpronouncable Acronym: JRGPS, Sun's enterprise OSS application stack" or
- "GUC You!  The 8.3 postgresql.conf guided tour"

Gabriele Bartolini:
- "ht://Miner and PostgreSQL"

David Fetter:
- "Postgres: A Babel of PLs" or
- "Federating Databases with DBI-Link for Performance" or
- "DBI-Link 3.0" or
- "Scalable Object-Relational Mapping"

I'm especially missing some of the proposals from the german
community i got earlier this year ;-)


Kind regards

--
                Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
 (Ferenc Mantfeld)

Allways though about a swot comparing mysql and postgresql. I have a
slide to share on this matter if anyone is interested.

Gb.-

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de
 > wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:42:23 +0200 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
>> So anybody who wants to give a talk in our devroom at FOSDEM please
>> send me
>> some more details along with the title, description and the info,
>> in which category
>> you would put your talk. I will collect the informations and both
>> forward them to
>> Daniel and summarize them here.
>
> ok, here are the talks so far:
>
> Simon Riggs:
> - "PostgreSQL 8.3 New Features" or
> - "PostgreSQL High Availability"
>
> Josh Berkus:
> - "50 Ways to Love Your Project / Life of a Patch" or
> - "Secure Your Database!" or
> - "5 Steps to PostgreSQL Performance" or
> - "Opensolaris Features for PostgreSQL Geeks" or
> - "A Few of My Favorite 8.3 Features" or
> - "The Unpronouncable Acronym: JRGPS, Sun's enterprise OSS
> application stack" or
> - "GUC You!  The 8.3 postgresql.conf guided tour"
>
> Gabriele Bartolini:
> - "ht://Miner and PostgreSQL"
>
> David Fetter:
> - "Postgres: A Babel of PLs" or
> - "Federating Databases with DBI-Link for Performance" or
> - "DBI-Link 3.0" or
> - "Scalable Object-Relational Mapping"
>
> I'm especially missing some of the proposals from the german
> community i got earlier this year ;-)
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> --
>                Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
> Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft
> product.
> (Ferenc Mantfeld)
>
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> ok, here are the talks so far:

A note to those proposing or selecting talks:  FOSDEM is, as the name says, a
*developer* meeting.  There will hardly be any purely end user audience, and
even less so in a project-specific "developer room".  So be sure to select
some talks that won't be "preaching to the choir".

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>> ok, here are the talks so far:
>
> A note to those proposing or selecting talks:  FOSDEM is, as the name says, a
> *developer* meeting.  There will hardly be any purely end user audience, and
> even less so in a project-specific "developer room".  So be sure to select
> some talks that won't be "preaching to the choir".

hmm I'm not yet sure if I be able to attend but what about a talk on the
postgresql infrastructure - would that be appropriate for that kind of
development meeting ?


Stefan