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Continuing our two-day event "PGDay" we have seen more interesting talks and devroom sessions on the second day.

Friday in the evening we had a party which was sponsored by EnterpriseDB. Thank's a lot!

Today in the closing note Gabriele told us that we drank only half of the free beer and we had to continue the party after PGDay was officially closed.

The usual note: PGDay.org in Prato is a smashing success ;-)

Registration took a bit longer than expected because of a lot visitors so the keynote started with several minutes delay. It was worth waiting, the speakers had a good audience:

Magnus and i arrived early in Prato. Later on wednesday in the night Dave and Greg joined us. So on thursday we had time to help preparing PGday.

Oh, and i heard, in the evening the group got lost again in Prato - the third time for some of them ;-)

Yesterday Magnus and i met on Frankfurt/Main airport and flew together to Florence. People, don't try to find this ominous CAP bus station on the highway! Just take the ATAF bus heading to Florence station, the stop is right outside the airport near all the white cabs. You can't miss it. The bus driver sells you a ticket for 4,50€ to Santa Maria Novella. On the station you need another ticket, it cost 1,80€ but the ticket machine knows about english. You have to look for a train heading to "Lucca".

In Prato we first decided to get some food and found a nice restaurant. On the way back we got lost in the city and several minutes later found the Prato Linux User Group. From there the way back to the hotel is easy - and the porter told us Gabriele was just here and he will join us at the PLUG house later. Ok, back to where we came from ;-)

We really met Gabriele and he leaved short after to pick up Dave and Greg on the airport. After they checked in we decided to get a last beer, walked into the city and found a nice pub, One beer later we called it a day and on the way back to the hotel - we got lost again ;-) Don't try Google Maps on your iPhone in a city, it's not really helpful. And bring money, according to Greg most ATM aren't working in Prato and he tried several cash machines *g*

There will be a keysigning party at PGDay.(it|eu) in Prato/Italy. The event is the last track friday in the evening, probably 16:50-17:30 (that's 4:50-5:30 pm).

The keysigning will not start until all talks finished so everybody has the chance to participate.

If you want to participate you have to register your pgp key.

More information about this registration can be found on the PGDay website: http://www.pgday.org/en/keysigning-party

After a long trip i finally arrived at home. Because the way from Italy back to Germany is very long, i made a stop in Munich and met some old friends. From the moment Stefan and i had seen Austria until i was in Munich it was heavily raining. After having sunshine and 30 or more degree in Italy this was really sobering.

My pictures from our trip to Florence are online now and you can see them here: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/pictures/v/events/pgday_it/florence_2007-07-08/

I also made some pictures from the mountains, but since it was already start raining at this time, i don't had the chance to make more pics: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/pictures/v/events/pgday_it/brenner_2007-07-09/

We just finised and mailed the PWN ... this time David and i was posting to our list at exactly the same time ;-)

We used the chance of being in Italy at the same time (PGDay.it, you know) to create the PWN together. Five people are just sitting in David's room, created the PWN and had a lot of fun working on this. Now we will go out and find a bar, i think, we really deserved it, or?

PGDay.it is over, it was a really impressive conference with a lot of good talks. The people from the Prato Linux User Group did a really good job. I met many people which i only knew by mail or irc, had some interesting discussions and of course we had fun ;-)

I'm just back from the Prato LUG bar (yeah, they even have a bar, imagine that!). We had a nice meeting right before starting the party: it was all about creating an european user group. I think, we are getting somewhere, people had some nice ideas. Now we just have to transform this ideas into something more usable.

Tomorrow we will use the free day and make a trip to Florence.

You can find all my pictures at: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/pictures/v/events/pgday_it/

If you know the name of the people on the pictures, just add a comment.

The slides for my own talk (about using tablelog for audits) are available at: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/writings/. Especially the italian and french guys did not even know about tablelog and was very interested.

Thanks to mastermind for proofreading.

I decided to have a second talk in front of my main talk and prepared some slides from the community day in Prato yesterday. The talk was named "Community relations" and got some attention ;-)

You can find the slides at: http://andreas.scherbaum.la/writings/

My main talk was about migrating web platforms from MySQL to PostgreSQL but i was a bit nervous, so this wasn't a good show.

Mr. Postman again, this time he delivered a parcel.

Content: 50 blue plush elephants for the PGDay in Italy:

One talk will be about my table_log, the other about migrating web platforms from Mysql to PostgreSQL.