Re: SFPUG meetings, schedule for year

Hmmm.... I can't commit to a regular monthly schedule. I can help out
with the "occasional" South Bay meetings, but not every month.

Drew

On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Steven Ericsson Zenith wrote:

> Drew,
>
> I think that is a great idea and Apple is a great location. Here
> is what I suggest. On the months that meetings are in Oakland -
> say a week later, so that the intense folks can do both if they
> really want - we hold a local meeting. We willl have to find our
> own speakers from a local pool - and/or we can invite the same
> speakers that appeared in Oakland. Between us we can probably wake
> up a few local speakers from places down here.
>
> Steven
>
>
> Drew Wilson wrote:
>> I'm very interested in a South Bay meeting, although I often have
>> conflicts with my kids' school meetings. (I intended to over to
>> Emeryville last night but had an unscheduled class meeting to
>> attend at our school.)
>>
>> If I were available, I could probably host here at Apple in
>> Cupertino if there's interest.
>>
>> Drew
>>
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:25 PM, Steven Ericsson Zenith wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if there is any separate demand for occasional meetings
>>> down here in Silicon Valley? Perhaps bimonthly meetings in the
>>> South Bay as a supplement to the sfpug - I don't think there is
>>> demand for an additional user group but I do think there is
>>> demand for occasional meetings here in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and
>>> perhaps San Jose.
>>>
>>> It might be a worthy alternative to do a meeting here on the
>>> months that the SF group meets in Oakland.
>>>
>>> It would certainly interest me.
>>>
>>> Any takers locally?
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
>>> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> Here's our meeting schedule for the year, in pencil:
>>>>
>>>> February 8th, 7pm, San Francisco
>>>> March 14th, 7:30pm, Oakland
>>>> April 12, 7pm, San Francisco
>>>> May 9th, 7:30pm, Oakland
>>>> June 14th, 7pm, San Francisco
>>>> July meeting preempted by PostgreSQL Anniversary
>>>> August: Linux World Expo BOF, some evening Aug 14-16
>>>> September 12, 7:30pm, Oakland
>>>> October 11, 7pm, San Francisco
>>>> November 15, 7:30pm, Oakland
>>>>
>>>> ... except that *one* of the above meetings should be a South
>>>> Bay meeting
>>>> instead. I think that will depend on our speaker.
>>>>
>>>> Potential Meeting Topics:
>>>> PostGIS: the oft-mentioned talk from Jon
>>>> Database security for web applications: Josh Berkus, others?
>>>> 8.1 vs. 5.0: What have we got that MySQL doesn't? Speakers TBA
>>>> PostgreSQL Lightning Talks: everyone
>>>>
>>>> Of course, I'd expect that we'll hear from more commercial
>>>> companies using
>>>> PostgreSQL this year, which will provide us more topics. But,
>>>> right now,
>>>> can we pick some dates for the above? Particularly, can we get
>>>> PG vs. My
>>>> or PostGIS in for the February meeting?
>>>>
>>>>
>>