Re: When to hold Pg East

On Thursday 11 December 2008 14:01:45 Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
wrote:
> > Ottawa has a very cool niche. It generally applies to -hacker type
> > material. East/West generally applies to -general type material. That is
> > why the crossover is so slim. There are of course exceptions which is
> > why I say, "generally".
>
> Having both curated and run two of the PG West/East conferences, two
> PDXPUG days at OSCON, and also having participated in PgCon (and many
> other conferences besides) --
>
> PgCon is not exclusively -hacker content, and there is significant
> overlap in the topics that are discussed there and at all of the
> conferences, and even the *way* that the topics are discussed.
>
> PgCon is the conference that drew in the hacker community first, and
> remains the primary international conference (with the PgEU conference
> on its heels). But there is plenty of content for DBAs there, and I
> would hope that MORE DBAs start attending PgCon. In fact, I encourage
> people to!
>
> Apart from topics - there is substantial overlap in the speakers at
> all the Postgres conferences, at least in terms of the speakers who
> are well-known, experienced and that attendees will be relatively
> guaranteed of a good performance :)
>
> Magnus' idea of color coding the events is a good one. An outsider
> looking at that page currently would be totally overwhelmed.
>
> I added 'Khaki' rows for conferences which I knew contained 1 day or
> more of exclusively Postgres content.
>
> Two months is barely enough separation between major conferences,
> regardless of where they are held.
>
> The only other community I know of that has this many conferences,
> that are larger then ours, is the Perl community. And they have quite
> a few years on us in terms of conference organization and
> non-profit/foundation experience. So, I'm glad we're all talking about
> this, and I'm sure the conversation is not yet over :)
>

hmm... the php community has a significant number of events as well, see
http://www.php.net/conferences/ for more.

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