Hello!
Thank you to our booth staffers:
Josh Berkus
Reece Hart
Jon Asher
Miho I****kura
Mason Glaves
(and special thanks to Jon, who had a terrible cold!)
The show was a little smaller than we expected, but I had many
interesting conversations. I met at least 5 people from the SF area
who had not heard of SFPUG, and asked for information about how to
sign up for the mailing list. I spoke in depth with some Drupal
developers about how to get PostgreSQL more fully sup****ted in their
modules.
We guessed there were about 300 people total at the conference. There
were several excellent talks - Matthew Garrett's "what's wrong with
power management on linux" was memorable, as was Allison Randal talk
on Parrot. I heard about an interesting tool called Review Board -
http://code.google.com/p/reviewboard/,
that may have some features the
-hackers/-patchers may be interested in.
Finally, several MySQL people were there - giving talks, and also just
in town for MySQLCon. They helped us set up our booth, and I ended up
explaining HOT to the second guy, John. John is giving a presentation
on PostgreSQL to some MySQL sup****t engineers this week, so our
meeting was fortuitous!
I also talked with Reece, Mason and Miho about advocacy efforts -- one
awesome idea from Reece was "war chalking" businesses in the SF area
that use PostgreSQL. If you haven't heard of this - it is chalking a
stencil on the sidewalk in front of businesses. We'd probably use the
elephant and maybe create a short, sneaky URL.
I have lots of other notes that I need to parse through with tons
of interesting -advocacy ideas.
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Selena Deckelmann
PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx
Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily
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