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The PostgreSQL main website has a new page: “Related Projects”.

This page lists the projects which help running and maintaining the PostgreSQL project, the infrastructure, and other things like the translations for press releases. For each project it lists links to the source, as well as information where to send updates, patches, or input.

If you want to get involved in one of the projects, that’s your starting point. If a project is missing, please send a note or a patch to pgsql-www.

Many thanks to Jonathan S. Katz for polishing the patch, and making it look nice!

For the 13th year, the PostgreSQL Project is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This project is a great opportunity to let students learn about Open Source projects, and help them deliver new features. It is also a chance to engage the students beyond just one summer, and grow them into active contributors.

As promised earlier this year, Pivotal released the code for Greenplum Database into Open Source.

Greenplum Database is based on PostgreSQL (was forked from PG 8.2), and features a massive parallel processing system (MPP) to run SQL queries on very large data sets. The code base is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, and available on GitHub. You can fork the project from there, or submit patches and new features.

Yesterday (Friday) we ran the German-speaking PostgreSQL Conference 2013. Once again (like 2011) it took place at the Rheinisches Industriemuseum in Oberhausen, followed today and tomorrow by the OpenRheinRuhr Open Source conference and exhibition. And like 2011 we had a “full house”, this year we had to close the registration even earlier than last year. Unfortunately the museum has a limited amount of seats, which somewhat limits us here. In the end, we had 105 attendees.

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.

Die deutsche Wikipedia hat es wieder mal geschafft: einige bekannte Open Source Veranstaltungen wurden wegen Irrelevanz gelöscht.