Coming Attractions

DBAs meet and Portland Ignites

Oct 16, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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Couple of events going down in the Portland area over the next week or two that all the cool kids are going to attend (i.e. me and any other nerds who can sneak past their mom/wife/partner/WoW).

PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007

Ah, PostgreSQL...  The Other White Meat.  Or, at least, the Other Open Source DB.  Those cooky kids are throwing their little conference at Portland State University in the heart of increasingly-less-sunny-as-fall-hits-its-stride Stumptown this coming Saturday, October 20th.  You need to preregister and scrounge up sixty tax-deductible bucks to get in ($10 if you're a student/faculty), but the topics and speakers look worth every penny.  The Rails applications talk sounds interesting, and I have a soft spot for the GIS stuff (PostGIS talk at 2:15 PST).  Oh, and don't forget the morning meet-n-greet and the after-dinner/party.

Read more and register at http://www.postgresqlconference.org, and if you happen to see a goofy blonde guy who bears a striking resemblance to the picture on your right, say "hi."

Ignite Portland

Ignite Portland's goin' down on Thursday, October 25 at Wieden+Kennedy in uber-trendy Northwest Portland.  Free to anyone who decides to browse over to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/265888/ and get their RSVP on.  Yes, I said "free."  As in, no cost.  Looks like there are currently 181 PDXers on the list right now, should be fun.

But what the hell is "Ignite Portland."  Hell if I know.  The jist of it is that speakers have 5 minutes to talk about just about anything.  They get 20 slides that rotate after 15 seconds, pretty much guaranteeing a fast clip.  Take a look at the clip on the Ignite Portland page for an example (http://www.igniteportland.com/). 

They haven't posted the list of presenters and topics yet, but if the roll calls from previous Ignites is any indication, it should be a hoot.  And given the fact that Portlanders are genetically predisposed to attempt to out-wacky people in other metro areas, well, I'm expecting great things.  Worst case scenario?  Well, each presentation is only 5 minutes long.  I can put up with even the worst speaker for that long, knowing the hook's coming out soon.

By the way, the Ignite people need more sponsors, so if this kind of crowd's the type o' people your business wants to reach or if you have a wealthy eccentric uncle looking to splurge, head to http://www.igniteportland.com/sponsorships/.