Re: Organizing the OSCON presence

Yes, I am planning on attending and I'm planning
on submitting both a tutorial and a talk.
My topic is not yet chosen.  I'm leaning toward
intro to OR concepts and possibly just plain
intro to PostgreSQL for a tutorial.

Josh, talk to me wrt php-pg app dev. I've got
a new tool you should evaluate.

Also, it is possible that David Reese will be
presenting an expanded talk/tutorial on the
topic of HA that is covered very briefly
in this week's PostgreSQL General Bits.
(http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits).

I would like to help with the coordination
of folks since I was critical of our presence
last year.   I'll see about setting up
the BOF.

Elein

PS: Also, please note that my last name is Mustain
although I usually just use "elein"--like "Cher"
or "Madonna" ;-) Varlena is my company name and
is also the name of the variable length array used as
a basis for variable length user defined
data types. :-)


On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:30:53PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> The submission deadline for OSCON 2004 is just 21 days away.
>
> I know that several people here were planning on presenting.  So far we've
> heard from:
>
> George Essig:  TSearch2 Presentation
> Robert Bernier:  Tutorial and Presentation, topic unknown
> Joe Conway: Extending PostgreSQL With C or PL/R or ???  Tutorial
> Elein Varlena:  Unknown -- are you attending?
> Robert Treat:  Submitted List, topic not chosen
> Josh Berkus (with Erez Ascher):  PHP+PostgreSQL Database-centric
>     Application Development -- 1/2 day tutorial?
> Josh Berkus:  Some other presentation, maybe Indexing.
>
> Please!  Let's organize this so that nobody submits conflicting presentations.
>
> Bruce:  Not going this year?  Yes/no?
> Jan:  Not presenting?
> Josh Drake:  Hey, is Command Prompt doing a presentation/getting a booth?  You
> should at least present on your replication software.
>
> One other thing to settle is for one of the Core to take a "State of
> PostgreSQL" presentation and push O'Reilly to give us a time slot.  If people
> want me to, I'll do it, but if Bruce or Jan are there I'd rather have the
> more senior project members on it.
>
> We should also organize things for the BOF and making sure the Speaker's
> lounge is staffed with PostgreSQL People.
>
> Finally -- last but not least -- we may have some compensation available for
> PostgreSQL people attending who don't have other sponsorship by OSCON.  But
> Don't Count On It!    If you really can't afford to go without financial
> help, contact me sooner rather than later.  Certainly I do not expect to have
> our fundraising organized in time to have a booth -- maybe next time.
>
> (And, can someone who's already given a tutorial at OSCON get in touch with
> me?  I'm not clear on what a tutorial needs to be other than a longer
> presentation with handouts.)
>
> --
> -Josh Berkus
>  Aglio Database Solutions
>  San Francisco
>
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