Re: Inofficial call for papers FOSDEM 2008

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:42:23AM +0200, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:04:39 +0200 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>
> > we need to plan the FOSDEM in early 2008 in Brussels.  As stated
> > in earlier mails we try to get a dedicated devroom in cooperation
> > with *BSD.
> >
> > This means, we will have 18 slots for talks on two days, 9 for PG,
> > 9 for BSD.  That means, we have to fill this 9 slots (plus 1, 2
> > standby). This mail is just a request to let me know, if we will
> > have this talks available.  This is not an official application,
> > that will be around october, november. I talked with Daniel
> > Seuffert from the FreeBSD project about the devroom and he asked
> > me, if we can have this devroom together and if the PostgreSQL
> > project can fill the available timeslots.
> >
> > So, hands up (or mail me), who is interested and what kind of talk
> > you want to give.
>
> FOSDEM in Brussels in on the radar and we should make plans. The
> event takes place 23th and 24th february 2008.
>
> I exchanged some mails with Daniel Seuffert from the FreeBSD group
> in Germany, he will try to get a devroom, which will get shared by
> BSD and PostgreSQL. If this venture is successful, we have to come
> up with a plan for proposed talks.
>
> Back in June, the time i wrote my initial mail, i got responses
> which made me think, we will have enough talks to fill in our slots.
> Thats good, because without this responses we did not had to plan
> about a devroom at all. But most answers was about "i can give a
> talk about ...", but no exact theme names. A talk about 8.3 would be
> nice, as example.
>
> So anybody who wants to give a talk in our devroom at FOSDEM please
> send me some more details along with the title, description and the
> info, in which category you would put your talk. I will collect the
> informations and both forward them to Daniel and summarize them
> here.

I can do any of:

Postgres: A Babel of PLs
Federating Databases with DBI-Link for Performance
DBI-Link 3.0
Scalable Object-Relational Mapping

Cheers,
David.
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