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FOSDEM PGDay is a one day conference that will be held ahead of FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan 29th, 2016. This will be a one-day focused PostgreSQL event, with a single track of talks. Registration is required to attend, the registration will open soon. Since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open.

PostgreSQL Europe will also have our regular devroom at FOSDEM on Sunday the 31st, which will be held at the main FOSDEM venue at ULB. This day will, of course, continue to be free of charge and open to all FOSDEM entrants. No registration is required to attend this day.

For full details about the conference, venue and hotel, see http://fosdem2016.pgconf.eu/.

The call for papers is now open for both these events. We are looking for talks to fill both these days with content for both insiders and new users. Please see http://fosdem2016.pgconf.eu/callforpapers/ for details and submission information.

The deadline for submissions is December 7th, 2015, but we may as usual pre-approve some talks, so get your submissions in soon!

We will provide a special rate with the Brussels Marriott Hotel. For details, see http://fosdem2016.pgconf.eu/venue/.

FOSDEM PGDay is a one day conference that will be held ahead of FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan 30th, 2015. This will be a one-day focused PostgreSQL event, with a single track of talks. This conference day will be for-charge and cost 50€, and will be held at the Brussels Marriott Hotel. Registration is required to attend, the registration is open. Since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open.

PostgreSQL Europe will also have our regular devroom at FOSDEM on Saturday the 31st, which will be held at the main FOSDEM venue at ULB. This day will, of course, continue to be free of charge and open to all FOSDEM entrants. No registration is required to attend this day.

For full details about the conference, venue and hotel, see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/.

The call for papers is now open for both these events. We are looking for talks to fill both these days with content for both insiders and new users. Please see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/callforpapers/ for details and submission information.

The deadline for submissions is November 24th, 2014, but we may as usual pre-approve some talks, so get your submissions in soon!

We also have negotiated rate with the Brussels Marriott Hotel. For details, see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/venue/.

The schedule for the PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM 2012 is now available:

http://www.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/postgresql_devroom

We will have 8 talks on Saturday, February 4th.

See you there ...

The PostgreSQL project will have a Devroom at FOSDEM 2012, which takes place on February 4-5 in Brussels, Belgium. The Devroom will mainly cover topics for PostgreSQL users, developers and contributors. For more information about the event itself, please see the website at http://www.fosdem.org/2012/.


We are now accepting proposals for talks. Please note that we only accept talks in English.

Each session will last 45 minutes (including discussion), and may be on any topic related to PostgreSQL. Suggested topic areas include:

• Developing applications for PostgreSQL
• Administering large scale PostgreSQL installations
• Case studies and/or success stories of PostgreSQL deployments
• PostgreSQL tools and utilities
• PostgreSQL hacking
• Community & user groups
• Tuning the server
• Migrating from other systems
• Scaling/replication
• Benchmarking & hardware
• PostgreSQL related products

Of course, we're happy to receive proposals for talks on other PostgreSQL related topics as well.


Please use our conference website to submit your proposal:

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/callforpapers/fosdem2012/


The deadline for submissions is December 20th, 2011. The schedule will be published and speakers will be informed by the end of the year.


Please also note my email about hotel reservation:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgeu-general/2011-11/msg00000.php

Yeah, FOSDEM is already a week ago, but I found no time to blog about the event. Anyway, here I go:

This years edition of FOSDEM was very successfull, especially for the PostgreSQL project. We got two tables in the main building, which gave us plenty of space to present the project and talk with visitors. In addition, we had our devroom in the main building too. So, thank you to the FOSDEM team for this smart move.

The devroom had many visitors for all talks. We managed to have 6 talks, three very technical and three more user orientated.

I came with a car full of stuff to Brussels, and leaved on Sunday with just two boxes. We gave away all stressballs and all pens, and sold all elephants (again) and mugs. Only one or two bags from PGDay.EU 2010 are left and several shirts. Time to order new merchandising stuff ;-) The Perl table next to us brought a very large camel, obviously an eye-catcher.

This year I also found time to visit other interesting talks, and managed to meet good friends again. As every year, it was a very good event, just a bit cold outside ;-)

The FOSDEM team finally puzzled the Pentabarf together and published all Track and Devroom schedules.

The PostgreSQL Project has room H.2213 in the main building, on sunday. Please join us for some very famous talks, you can find the schedule here.

We also have a booth on both Saturday and Sunday, as usual in the AW building.

A place for the friday evening meetup will be announced shortly on the mailinglist.

FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source event held annually in Brussels, Belgium, and attended by around 4000 people. As in recent years, the PostgreSQL project will have a devroom where we will be presenting a number of talks. The event will be held on the 5 - 6th February 2011.

We're looking for developers, users and contributors to submit talks for inclusion on the program. Any topic related to PostgreSQL is acceptable as long as it is non-commercial in nature. Suggested topics might include:

• Migration of systems to PostgreSQL
• Developing applications for PostgreSQL
• Benchmarking and tuning
• Administering PostgreSQL installations
• Spatial applications
• PostgreSQL hacking
• Data warehousing
• New features
• Community & user groups
• PostgreSQL tools and utilities
• Tips and tricks
• Replication
• Case studies

We will have a number of 45 minutes slots, and may split one or more into 3 back-to-back 15 minute slots if we receive suitable proposals.

Please submit your proposals to:

fosdem@postgresql.eu

and include the following information:

• Your name
• The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~250 from other projects)
• A short abstract of one to two paragraphs
• A short biography introducing yourself
• Links to related websites/blogs etc.

The deadline for submissions is 20th December 2010. The proposals will be considered by committee. If your proposal has been accepted, you will be informed by email within one week of the submission deadline.

Da komme ich nichts ahnend an einem sonnigen Montag morgen im Büro an und muss feststellen, dass schon wieder einige Politiker - diesmal in Brüssel - diese alte, abgenutzte Idee von den Websperren aufgreifen und als neue Sau durch das Dorf treiben.

Die letzte Bundesregierung unseres schönen Landes hat mit viel Trara das Zugangserschwerungsgesetz kurz vor der Wahl durchgedrückt umgesetzt. Die damalige und jetzige Bundesministerin Ursula von der Leyen war die treibende Kraft hinter diesem Gesetz, über das im Vorfeld viele Gerüchte und Halb- sowie Unwahrheiten verbreitet wurden.

Nach der Wahl wollte dieses Gesetz auf einmal niemand mehr haben, warum wohl? Um so erstaunter war die versammelte politische Landschaft, als der Bundespräsident dieses Gesetz dann doch unterzeichnet hat: auf einmal hatte man das Gesetz und wusste nichts mehr damit anzufangen. Derzeit laufen Bestrebungen, dieses Gesetz wieder loszuwerden, bis dahin ist das BKA angewiesen, das Gesetz nicht anzuwenden.

So, und was macht die EU? Als ob man von den Mitgliedsstaaten nichts gelernt hat, wird der gleiche Vorschlag von der Europäischen Kommission als Richtlinie aufgelegt. Wir erinnern uns: über eine sogenannte Richtlinie wurde vor einiger Zeit auch die Vorratsdatenspeicherung eingeführt.

Lernt in Brüssel eigentlich niemand dazu?