Re: Seattle PostgreSQL Day

Basil,

LinuxFest Northwest has a lot less people on Sunday. But Sunday is when they have the free after party for you to smooze with the attendees.

We would only be running one Postgres track aka one room.

The main thing for us to do a track there is to participate in the planning starting at the end of the year and donate something for the drawings that are held at the end of the day on Saturday.

We would also have a booth that would need to be manned. Lots of people stopped by last year asking questions about Postgres. Most people had never used it.

Lloyd

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From: seapug-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:seapug-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Basil Bourque
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 2:40 PM
To: Joshua D. Drake; seapug(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [seapug] Seattle PostgreSQL Day

LinuxFest Northwest 2014
Bellingham, WA (Bellingham Technical College) April 26th & 27th http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/

Pros:

* Drastically reduces the preparatory & logistics work on our part, compared with doing an event on our own.
* Low cost (free?)
* We can ride on their publicity
* We had surprisingly good results last year, meeting many people, and gained several new members to our PUG including more attendees at our meetings.
* Lots of enthusiastic people. They claim 1200 attendees in 2012, and I suspect I saw more than that in 2013.
* People do bother to travel - people from Seattle, Vancouver BC, etc. were in attendence.

Cons:

* So far away from Seattle & Eastside. About 1 to 1.5 hour drive each way, as I recall.
* Not many business people. Many geeks, few suits.
* Earlier than Joshua suggested (April vs June) * Lousy food & coffee choices.

As for running two tracks in two rooms for a single day, perhaps we could run in one room over both days? Lloyd, do you recall if both days had a lot of attendence or was one day more popular than the other?

I believe LinuxFest is our best opportunity for a first-time effort at doing a pgDay, because there is almost no preparatory & logistics work. The catch would be that we must get enough members to commit to making the trip to give talks and/or staff our booth.

I only wish there were some event similar to LinuxFest but in the Seattle/Eastside area that we could climb aboard. Something like the old University of Washington Computer Fair (that seems to be long gone). I perused http://www.seattletechcalendar.com/ and http://www.geekwire.com/calendar/ but did not see any.

My dream location would be the new McMenamins development opening in Bothell. I sent a query to them today, but I'm guessing they won't be open in time for us. Perhaps the year after, in 2015.
http://www.futureofbothell.com/projects/anderson-school-building

--Basil

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