Thread: Re: Ohio LinuxFest Booth (October 11)
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net> wrote: > A snip from a recent conversation on the local Linux users group list: > >> I started using Postgres because of a Postgres >> CD that was handed out at Ohio LinuxFest last fall. Postgres seemed >> similar to Microsoft SQL Server with which I've done a lot of work. > > It actually feels rather fulfilling to hear about some of the direct > effects of our efforts. Very cool! > On that topic, Ohio LinuxFest is around the corner again. We had a few > folks last year, but this year I hadn't heard if anyone submitted a talk > so have yet to put in for a booth. Anyone up for booth duty this year? Looks like the booth would need to be staffed on October 11th. Anyone available in the area? I think Robert Treat went last year and said it was a very worthwhile conference for us. > (And I certainly could use it as a kick in the pants to start to get > more involved once again...) :) -selena -- Selena Deckelmann PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily
Selena Deckelmann wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net> wrote: >> A snip from a recent conversation on the local Linux users group list: >> >>> I started using Postgres because of a Postgres >>> CD that was handed out at Ohio LinuxFest last fall. Postgres seemed >>> similar to Microsoft SQL Server with which I've done a lot of work. >> It actually feels rather fulfilling to hear about some of the direct >> effects of our efforts. > > Very cool! > >> On that topic, Ohio LinuxFest is around the corner again. We had a few >> folks last year, but this year I hadn't heard if anyone submitted a talk >> so have yet to put in for a booth. Anyone up for booth duty this year? > > Looks like the booth would need to be staffed on October 11th. Anyone > available in the area? I think Robert Treat went last year and said > it was a very worthwhile conference for us. That is an 8 hour drive from my place. Perhaps I should go and visit that conference. Mr Treat: road trip?
Just as a reminder: PostgreSQL Conference West will be going on in Portland, Oregon on that weekend (October 10-12) as well: http://postgresqlconference.org/ ---Michael Brewer mbrewer@gmail.com
On Monday 01 September 2008 22:21:29 Dan Langille wrote:
> Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net>
wrote:
> >> A snip from a recent conversation on the local Linux users group list:
> >>> I started using Postgres because of a Postgres
> >>> CD that was handed out at Ohio LinuxFest last fall. Postgres seemed
> >>> similar to Microsoft SQL Server with which I've done a lot of work.
> >>
> >> It actually feels rather fulfilling to hear about some of the direct
> >> effects of our efforts.
> >
> > Very cool!
> >
> >> On that topic, Ohio LinuxFest is around the corner again. We had a few
> >> folks last year, but this year I hadn't heard if anyone submitted a talk
> >> so have yet to put in for a booth. Anyone up for booth duty this year?
> >
> > Looks like the booth would need to be staffed on October 11th. Anyone
> > available in the area? I think Robert Treat went last year and said
> > it was a very worthwhile conference for us.
>
> That is an 8 hour drive from my place. Perhaps I should go and visit
> that conference.
>
> Mr Treat: road trip?
Sorry, but I wont be going to Ohio Linuxfest this year. I do think it is a
worthwile conference, so I'd encourage others to attend (the hotel is pretty
nice too). BTW, someone should coordinate with Josh W. about sending soem pg
swag his way for the booth.
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:44:27 -0400 Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > That is an 8 hour drive from my place. Perhaps I should go and > > visit that conference. > > > > Mr Treat: road trip? > > Sorry, but I wont be going to Ohio Linuxfest this year. I do think it > is a worthwile conference, so I'd encourage others to attend (the > hotel is pretty nice too). BTW, someone should coordinate with Josh > W. about sending soem pg swag his way for the booth. > What about Chris Browne, I believe SPI has sponsored him to speak there before? Sincerely, JOshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:29 -0400, Michael Alan Brewer wrote: > Just as a reminder: PostgreSQL Conference West will be going on in > Portland, Oregon on that weekend (October 10-12) as well: Well, drats, that'll pull a good amount of the potential OLF presence. Having almost zero travel budget at the moment West nearly fell off my radar. Well spotted, thanks for pointing that out. With a PG-specific conference going on that same weekend in mind, who else has the ability to attend? Just that if it ends up just being myself there I'd rather spend the effort in other ways. - Josh Williams
Robert Treat wrote: > On Monday 01 September 2008 22:21:29 Dan Langille wrote: >> Selena Deckelmann wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Josh Williams <joshwilliams@ij.net> > wrote: >>>> A snip from a recent conversation on the local Linux users group list: >>>>> I started using Postgres because of a Postgres >>>>> CD that was handed out at Ohio LinuxFest last fall. Postgres seemed >>>>> similar to Microsoft SQL Server with which I've done a lot of work. >>>> It actually feels rather fulfilling to hear about some of the direct >>>> effects of our efforts. >>> Very cool! >>> >>>> On that topic, Ohio LinuxFest is around the corner again. We had a few >>>> folks last year, but this year I hadn't heard if anyone submitted a talk >>>> so have yet to put in for a booth. Anyone up for booth duty this year? >>> Looks like the booth would need to be staffed on October 11th. Anyone >>> available in the area? I think Robert Treat went last year and said >>> it was a very worthwhile conference for us. >> That is an 8 hour drive from my place. Perhaps I should go and visit >> that conference. >> >> Mr Treat: road trip? > > Sorry, but I wont be going to Ohio Linuxfest this year. I do think it is a > worthwile conference, so I'd encourage others to attend (the hotel is pretty > nice too). BTW, someone should coordinate with Josh W. about sending soem pg > swag his way for the booth. It appears I won't be at Ohio Linxufest either. NYC BSDCon is October 11-12. Choosing between 16 hours of driving and 4 hours of driving, NYC wins. http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2008/ -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/
jd@commandprompt.com (Joshua Drake) writes: > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:44:27 -0400 > Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> > That is an 8 hour drive from my place. Perhaps I should go and >> > visit that conference. >> > >> > Mr Treat: road trip? >> >> Sorry, but I wont be going to Ohio Linuxfest this year. I do think it >> is a worthwile conference, so I'd encourage others to attend (the >> hotel is pretty nice too). BTW, someone should coordinate with Josh >> W. about sending soem pg swag his way for the booth. >> > > What about Chris Browne, I believe SPI has sponsored him to speak there > before? I'd not be completely against the idea; I had a pretty good time there 2 years ago. I don't have a talk ready, which is a bit of a barrier. I've been too busy redesigning Afilias internals to have inspiration left over :-(. At least, not for coming up with topics "out of whole cloth." Given a suggestion of direction, I can certainly write :-). There's a LinuxFest in Toronto on October 25th (<http://onlinux.ca/>), so anything that *did* get arrived at could get reused :-). I'm not saying no, but not yes, yet, either. -- output = reverse("moc.enworbbc" "@" "enworbbc") http://linuxfinances.info/info/rdbms.html "He who writes the code gets to choose his license, and nobody else gets to complain." -- Linus Torvalds