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.
The German PostgreSQL User Group is present with a booth at Brandenburger Linux-Infotag (Linux Infoday Brandenburg) 2010 in Potsdam, Germany on november 6th.
In addition I will give a talk about new features in PostgreSQL 9.0 and a workshop about the new replication in PostgreSQL 9.0.
For the first time the PostgreSQL project will be present at OpenRheinRuhr 2010 on november 13rd and 14th in Oberhausen, Germany.
Along with a booth I will also give a talk about the new features in PostgreSQL 9.0.
The vintage Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich had invited to FrOSCamp and many open source projects had followed the call. The Fedora FUDCon conference and another conference were held on the same weekend at the same location. This gave some exchange between participants and resulted in interested visitors. The PostgreSQL project was represented with a booth and a total of 4 lectures and workshops.
There’s a new FOSS conference taking place at the ETH in Zurich, called FrOSCamp. It’s a two day conference but unlike many others it’s on Friday and saturday, september 17th/18th. FUDCon, the Fedora conference, is running parallel to FrOSCamp. Same time, same location.
Like last year the German PostgreSQL User Group is attending FrOSCon 2010, which is taking place in St. Augustin near Cologne in Germany at August 21st/22nd, 2010. We again managed to have a devroom for one day and are looking for some cool talks - of course somewhat PostgreSQL related.
This blog post of mine about the new MySQL Emulation Layer in PostgreSQL 9.0 was (more of less obvious) an April joke. Most readers have guessed it right.
On the other hand: the idea, that this joke is based on, is very real: during the last conferences and exhibitions which I have attended, many visitors asked us (the PostgreSQL booth staff) about the future of MySQL.
Guess what - we don’t know! Please ask Larry ;-)
PostgreSQL 9.0.0, released today, contains the MySQL Emulation Layer.
To enable this feature, set the mysql_compatible option GUC to on.
Like the last years the PostgreSQL User Group Germany was present with a booth at Chemnitz Linux Days 2010, one of the big open source and community events in germany.
The PostgreSQL User Group Germany were given the opportunity to have a booth at CeBIT 2010 and present the project. CeBIT is a very big IT-related exhibition and takes place in Hannover, Germany.