Making POSETTE: An Event for Postgres with Teresa Giacomini & Aaron Wislang | Talking Postgres Ep16
It’s not a conference unless you can confer, right? In this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly called Path To Citus Con*), POSETTE organizers Teresa Giacomini and Aaron Wislang join Claire Giordano to share backstage perspectives on the making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres—a free & virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft, and which has become the largest Postgres event in the world. How do you feel about captions: love or hate? Should livestream talks be pre-recorded or presented live? Why rename from Citus Con to POSETTE? Where did the inspiration for POSETTE come from? And can the hallway track at a conference actually be fun—if it is virtual? Also discussed: Avett Brothers lyrics, the surprising number of POSETTE speakers with chickens, and the existential question of whether the work in organizing a conference is worth it.
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—are here: https://talkingpostgres.com & on this YouTube playlist: https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-playlist
Chapters:
⏩ 00:00 Introductions
⏩ 5:24 What makes a conference?
⏩ 7:13 Accessibility & captions
⏩ 25:33 “Structure” of POSETTE
⏩ 35:46 Inspired by P99 Conf
⏩ 39:23 Talk selection
⏩ 1:00:09 Renaming Citus Con
⏩ 1:09:11 Chickens and POSETTE
⏩ 1:18:20 Open source as team sport
⏩ 1:24:57 Different timezones
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Links mentioned in this episode:
🔹 Blog post: What’s in a name? About the naming of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...
🔹 FOSDEM: the conference whose name inspired the naming of POSETTE: https://fosdem.org/
🔹 Playlist of 42 talks from POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024: https://aka.ms/posette-playlist
🔹 Playlist of 4 unique livestreams from POSETTE 2024: https://aka.ms/posette-livestream-pla...
🔹 CFP is open: PGDay Lowlands 2024 Call for Papers will close July 9, 2024: https://2024.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/
🔹 P99 Conf: https://www.p99conf.io/
🔹 Microsoft Open Source Discord: Home for virtual hallway track for #posetteconf: https://aka.ms/open-source-discord
🔹 Adam Wølk’s speaker page for POSETTE: https://www.citusdata.com/posette/spe...
🔹 Speaker interview: with Polina Bungina for POSETTE: https://www.citusdata.com/posette/spe...
🔹 Blog post: About Talk Selection for POSETTE 2024, by Claire Giordano: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...
🔹 Blog post: Building the PGConf.dev Programme, by Paul Ramsey: https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2024/0...
🔹 pgDay Paris 2024 note about talk selection: https://2024.pgday.paris/static/cb63a...
🔹 Keynote for Livestream 1 by Charles Feddersen in 2024: • All The Postgres Things at Microsoft, POSE...
🔹 Keynote for POSETTE 2024 Livestream 2 by Regina Obe: • The Open Source Geospatial Community, Post...
🔹 Keynote for POSETTE 2024 Livestream 3 by Sarah Novotny: • Why I love open source development & what ...
🔹 Keynote for POSETTE 2024 Livestream 4 by Thomas Munro: • A Walking Tour of PostgreSQL | POSETTE 2024
🔹 Lyrics from The Perfect Space by The Avett Brothers: https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers...
🔹 Video of Lotte Felius's POSETTE 2024 talk: • Lessons Learned from benchmarking and prof...
🔹 Video of Citus Con 2023 talk by Boriss Mejías: • Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Dark...
🔹 Video of POSETTE 2024 talk by Boriss Mejías: • Postgres Storytelling: What's going on wit...
🔹 Video of Federico Campoli's POSETTE 2024 talk, including jazz music: • Vindicating ZFS with PostgreSQL: Unleashin...
🔹 Blog post: Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, 2024 edition: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...
🔹 Social post: Kelsey Hightower advice to conference organizers: https://x.com/kelseyhightower/status/...
🔹 Video from PGConfEU 2023 talk by Henrietta Dombrovskaya & Teresa Giacomini: • Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Teresa Giacomini: ...
🔹 Blog post: The Story Behind the Activity Book for Postgres, by Teresa Giacomini: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t...
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