Re: Organizing the OSCON presence

I'd be happy to do an introductory session similar to the one that I did
a few years ago.  I don't see anything on the list at that level, and it
was pretty successful, I believe.  Slides are at
http://pgsql.gavinroy.com/oscon2002/

The Other Gavin ;)

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.)
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