Re: Success of PG Day France 2013

Le 18/06/2013 16:29, Cédric Villemain a écrit :
> Le mardi 18 juin 2013 14:18:01, Michael Paquier a écrit :
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:08 PM, damien clochard
>> <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> Just a few words to let you know that the PG Day France 2013
>>> happened last week in Nantes.
>>>
>>> With 115 registered attendees, we saw a 50% increase in
>>> registration from last year. These numbers are extremely good,
>>> especially if you think that on the very same week there was a
>>> big train workers strike AND a big air traffic controllers
>>> strike (Bienvenue en France!...). Without those 2 major strikes
>>> we would have gone even higher.
>>>
>>> Anyway this success shows that PostgreSQL is making impressive
>>> progress in France. Approx. half of the attendees worked for
>>> national agencies, while the rest were from private companies.
>>> Some big French companies are switching from Oracle to
>>> PostgreSQL. I hope I'll be allowed to give more details in the
>>> near future.
>>
>> That's really great. Congratulations to all the people of Dalibo
>> and the French community for this success!
>
> PostgreSQLFR claimed and keep claiming french-speaking, not french
> centric community, here we had registered people also from
> Switzerland and Belgium.
>

Hi Cédric,

I Think that everyone in the PostgreSQLFr association is very careful
regarding that specific point and we spend a lot of time saying that
we are a **french speaking** PostgreSQL community. Personnaly I did it
again on that list just a month ago

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5191F8B4.7030302@dalibo.info

However the PG Day France (as written in its name) is a french-centric
event. The conference is focused on the french user base. AFAIK there
were some people from Switzerland, but that's less than 3% of the
attendees.

The goal of the PostgreSQLFr association is to help and support the
people who want to organise PostgreSQL events in a French speaking
country.

Currently we have serious contacts in Tunisia, Belgium and Switzerland
to organize some PostgreSQL events there in the near future. For each
country, there are specific hurdles to overcome and I'm not sure we
will find success everywhere but we're working on it and you're
welcome if you want to help !

--
Damien