Re: Postgres Conference China 2013 closed

On Nov 13, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Gilberto Castillo wrote:

>> On 11/01/2013 09:09 AM, galy lee wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> We just finished Postgres Conference China 2013 in last weekend.
>>>
>>> There were about 130 attendees had join this conference, it is quite a
>>> success conference. Postgres is developing quite good in China recently.
>>>
>>> Some pictures of the conference had been uploaded to the following wiki
>>> page
>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgconf_cn2013
>>
>> That's awesome! For some reason I receive this email a week late.
>>
>> Hey, what do you think of the idea of doing a pan-Asia conference, as we
>> have a pan-European one? Is that a remotely reasonable idea?
>
>
> Good idea, too can doing a pan-America. For the entire continent.

Part of the reason why a pan-European conference was created was to help jump-start a lot of the regional communities and their local conferences in addition to providing a forum to bring together a lot of different Postgres users across Europe / the world.

I think the issue with a pan-America conference is that there are already a lot of established large, regional conferences occurring at all times of the year, in addition to PGCon occurring once a year in Canada. While I love both organizing and attending PostgreSQL conferences, I think in the Americas there is the challenge of finding time that does not conflict with one of the many big conferences we have + finding time amongst the active organizers to put together such an event.

Jonathan