Second - and last day - of PGCon 2011 is over. It was a very good conference, I got new ideas and learned a lot.
Second - and last day - of PGCon 2011 is over. It was a very good conference, I got new ideas and learned a lot.
PGCon 2011 started today with a bunch of interesting talks. The weather in the morning was unsurprisingly bad, it was heavily raining. Also there was an announcement about a new PostgreSQL Conference (Postgres Open Conference), taking place in September in Chicago.
Postgre NoSQL - that’s what Devrim was talking about in the Royal Oak pub. But more about his big failure later.
In today’s fast development cycles and with the available, rapidly changing technologies there is less time for the rational planning of a new application. Since the database is usually the last in the development chain, programmers tend to avoid learning yet another programming language for relational databases. The PostgreSQL Project is aware of this problem.
The FOSDEM team finally puzzled the Pentabarf together and published all Track and Devroom schedules.
On tuesday evening, after the conference, we went to a kart racing arena near Stuttgart. This event was announced in the first mail to all participants, although there was no reminder because all available places in the cars (for transportation to the kart racing) were already reserved after a short time.
The second conference day started with stress: the schedule was wrong in the booklet, the first talks in the morning were scheduled with 20 minutes instead of 50 minutes. This was the reason why so many visitors showed up early ;-) We decided to cut the next talks 5 minutes short and take 5 or 10 minutes from the breaks. After lunch we were back on schedule again.
The first day of PGDay.EU 2010 was cool. All the work done yesterday now paid out: registration for everyone took only seconds and nobody had to wait.
It’s this time of the year again: the Annual European PostgreSQL Conference (PGDay.EU 2010) is near.
The last weeks were very busy. We had an online meeting every week, ordered some stuff, told our sponsors where to send the flyers and in general we had a very long todo list to solve. Last saturday and sunday, several team members started arriving in Stuttgart and we met up to drink some beers and actually find some time to prepare the conference ;-)