Thread: Opportunity for some .EDU advocacy
Good morning, y'all! If anyone is interested, I thought I'd send along to -advocacy a Call for Presentations for the University System of Georgia's Annual Computing Conference (a gathering of computing professionals from all of the state's universities and colleges); I've presented at this conference before, and it's a great opportunity to advocate PostgreSQL in front of people who can make it happen statewide. (There are also opportunities for vendors: http://www.usg.edu/oiit/re/re08/exhibitorinfo/ ) It's an academic conference, so there is no stipend or travel funds involved; however, they do give free room and board (and no conference fees) to presenters. Rock Eagle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Eagle_Effigy_Mound - the conference center itself is nearby to this historical monument) is a beautiful place in the fall; I'd love to see some of y'all there as presenters and/or exhibitors. :) ---Michael Brewer mbrewer@gmail.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Deadline Extended Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:36:21 -0400 From: Joy Schweiger <bor@ciclt.net> Reply-To: joy.schweiger@usg.edu This email was sent to multiple distribution lists, please disregard duplications. The Annual Computing Conference is scheduled October 22 - 24, 2008 at the Rock Eagle 4-H Camp near Eatonton, Georgia - that's only 4 months away and the Program Committee is continuing to search for presentations! We have extended the deadline for presentation proposals to June 30th! The Program Planning Committee has asked for presentations within following topic areas: Leadership Development General Networking Communications (Data, Voice and Video) Security Administrative Computing/Data Management Teaching and Learning Technologies Web Technologies Helpdesk New Vendor Products To submit presentations for consideration please visit our conference web site at http://www.usg.edu/oiit/re/re08/. The deadline for presentations is now June 30, 2008. Acceptance/Rejection letters will be mailed July 15,2008. We look forward to your submittal. Thank you! Joy Schweiger Educational Event & Training Manager OIIT, University System of Georgia (404) 656-2256
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:21 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > Good morning, y'all! If anyone is interested, I thought I'd send along > to -advocacy a Call for Presentations for the University System of > Georgia's Annual Computing Conference (a gathering of computing > professionals from all of the state's universities and colleges); Michael would you be able to attend this? And/Or organize a booth? Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > Michael would you be able to attend this? And/Or organize a booth? It's an easy trip for me; I'm debating what to send as a presentation topic. (Last year, I repeated the "Migrating to PostgreSQL in Academia" presentation I did at PgCon, with some additional information on 8.3.) This year, it'd be good to get some application-specific presentations loaded (and, if anyone could do a presentation with PostGIS, that'd be useful; I don't have enough experience with it to do so); I could help with a booth, although I'd guess that, if we had a booth, we'd want a core person as well. Oracle will be there, as well as Sun (with their "Sun in Education" team). ---Michael Brewer mbrewer@gmail.com
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > > > Michael would you be able to attend this? And/Or organize a booth? > > It's an easy trip for me; I'm debating what to send as a presentation > topic. (Last year, I repeated the "Migrating to PostgreSQL in > Academia" presentation I did at PgCon, with some additional > information on 8.3.) This year, it'd be good to get some > application-specific presentations loaded (and, if anyone could do a > presentation with PostGIS, that'd be useful; I don't have enough > experience with it to do so); I could help with a booth, although I'd > guess that, if we had a booth, we'd want a core person as well. > Oracle will be there, as well as Sun (with their "Sun in Education" > team). This is at the end of august right? We have quite a few contributors in that Area... Robert, Chander, Theo what do you think? Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > This is at the end of august right? Late October: October 22-24. ---Michael Brewer mbrewer@gmail.com
On June 17, 2008 12:31:21 pm Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > > Michael would you be able to attend this? And/Or organize a booth? > This is at the end of august right? We have quite a few contributors in > that Area... Robert, Chander, Theo what do you think? > It's possible but it's too soon to tell as it depends on the schedule at the time. Robert
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:32 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > > > This is at the end of august right? > > Late October: October 22-24. Ughh, right after West. I think the thing to do here is see if we can rally some East Coast troops. Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> >>> Michael would you be able to attend this? And/Or organize a booth? >>> >> It's an easy trip for me; I'm debating what to send as a presentation >> topic. (Last year, I repeated the "Migrating to PostgreSQL in >> Academia" presentation I did at PgCon, with some additional >> information on 8.3.) This year, it'd be good to get some >> application-specific presentations loaded (and, if anyone could do a >> presentation with PostGIS, that'd be useful; I don't have enough >> experience with it to do so); I could help with a booth, although I'd >> guess that, if we had a booth, we'd want a core person as well. >> Oracle will be there, as well as Sun (with their "Sun in Education" >> team). >> > > This is at the end of august right? We have quite a few contributors in that Area... > Robert, Chander, Theo what do you think? > > Joshua D. Drake > I could probably do something PostGIS, MapServer, OpenLayers related... Lemme check my calendar and see if I can put something together. thanks chander
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:30 -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > > This is at the end of august right? We have quite a few contributors in that Area... > > Robert, Chander, Theo what do you think? > > > > Joshua D. Drake > > > I could probably do something PostGIS, MapServer, OpenLayers related... > Lemme check my calendar and see if I can put something together. O.k. sense it is in October, I could probably go too. That will be right after West. So if we get Michael, Chander, Robert (both), and I we should be good to go. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:30 -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote: > >> Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: >>> > > >>> This is at the end of august right? We have quite a few contributors in that Area... >>> Robert, Chander, Theo what do you think? >>> >>> Joshua D. Drake >>> >>> >> I could probably do something PostGIS, MapServer, OpenLayers related... >> Lemme check my calendar and see if I can put something together. >> > > O.k. sense it is in October, I could probably go too. That will be right > after West. So if we get Michael, Chander, Robert (both), and I we > should be good to go. > Okay. I submitted 4 abstracts for this one... chander > Sincerely, > > > Joshua D. Drake > > > -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 919-463-0999/877-258-8987 http://www.otg-nc.com
Chander Ganesan wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 17:30 -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote: >> >>> Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 12:24 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: >>>> >> >> >>>> This is at the end of august right? We have quite a few >>>> contributors in that Area... >>>> Robert, Chander, Theo what do you think? >>>> >>>> Joshua D. Drake >>>> >>> I could probably do something PostGIS, MapServer, OpenLayers >>> related... Lemme check my calendar and see if I can put something >>> together. >>> >> >> O.k. sense it is in October, I could probably go too. That will be right >> after West. So if we get Michael, Chander, Robert (both), and I we >> should be good to go. >> > Okay. I submitted 4 abstracts for this one... Just an FYI, in case anyone else submitted abstracts. I never heard back from the folks at UGA about this conference, but today checked the speaker schedule for it and noticed that I'm on the hook for a total of 3 talks on the last day of the conference. If anyone else submitted abstracts, you might check to see if you are scheduled to speak at the conference. The day I am scheduled happens to be the *only* weekday in the month of October that I am actually free... The talks I am doing are: Introduction to Geospatial databases with PostGIS Choosing an Open Source database: MySQL vs PostgreSQL Providing Highly Available Network Services with UCARP (a variant of my PGDay talk at LinuxWorld). Is there any community presence at this conference (besides me?) Just a note that folks who submitted abstracts may not have received any notification that their abstracts were actually accepted.... -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 919-463-0999/877-258-8987 http://www.otg-nc.com