Why We're Doing This
The conference series is designed to be a geographically strategic series of conferences that allow contributors, current users and future users/developers to learn and network.
Each conference is held in an Academic facility, students and educators are free. Our goal is to establish a series of forums for local developers, administrators and users to mingle with leading PostgreSQL contributors. Initially these forums and conferences will be held in the U.S. but we are also working with our European counterparts.
The presentations are focused on practical applications -- what developers and DBAs are doing right now and how that could help you. An attendee will walk away with tools and information they can apply. As well as more advanced topics about things you will be doing in the future.
Finally, we are using the conferences to raise funds to further development of PostgreSQL. The money we raise is used to support code efforts, advocacy efforts and community building such as sponsoring key developers to speak at other conferences.
Your PostgreSQL Conferences team,
Selena Decklemann - PDXPUG leader
Joshua D. Drake - PostgreSQL SPI Liaison