Re: PostgreSQL hours

Hello All,
Weekdays in San Francisco is a bit too hard for me, since I am located in San Jose. But if most people are in San Francisco, then I guess it is the natural choice then.

Ya

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From: sfpug-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:sfpug-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:17 PM
To: sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [sfpug] PostgreSQL hours

Sergey,

> I think doing it at SOMA at lunch time will restrict the audience with
> 15 minutes around radius. The thought is that if it would be arranged
> at 6-7PM (may be even earlier) it might serve as a good reasoning for
> people to left offices earlier and spend their last work hours at the
> meetup solving their work issues with additional help of community. I
> think it might attract audience better.

Hmmm. You could be right. What about scheduling one brown bag, and one evening session, per month for a couple months? We could see which one is more attractive to people.

> I thought about it in a slightly different way. Free form - no
> presentations, no demos, just problems and solutions, plus networking.

Ah, ok. I misunderstood you. As a warning, historically SFPUG events where there was not a structured presentation had fairly low attendance (like, 4 people). So you'll need to see if this kind of freeform thing appeals to anyone.

> May be to collect visitors issues preliminary on a web site, rate them
> by complexity level and delegate to consultants according to their
> level. Because, for example, I can show how to smoothly do switch over
> with pgbouncer, but can not do something like planner related source
> code mining yet. May be even to collect a certain minimum amount of
> issues and arrange these meetups like on demand. So it could be more
> optimal and more flexible this way, and might be arranged in such
> places a public libraries or Starbucks.

Hmmm, I'm not sure I quite follow what you're planning to happen at these meetings.

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Josh Berkus
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