Re: Austin PGDay Speaker(s)

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:38:55PM -0600, Jon Erdman wrote:
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> I'm copying a couple other prospective speakers here (you two please see
> thread history below):
>
> David Wheeler
> Merlin Moncure
>
> So, as the Professor would say, good news everybody! We now have two
> offical Bronze Sponsors:
>
> Jon Erdman - $500
> Jim Nasby - $500
>
> This generous contribution by these two pillars of the postgres
> community (*cough*) will allow us to secure our venue today, or at least
> get the wheels in motion. As a result, those of you who've said they'll
> speak are safe to start planning your trip, as it is now definitely
> going to happen! We have the call in to the venue and when we get the
> contract signed I'll let you know so we can get plane tickets reserved.
>
> Stay tuned...

FYI, I see flights round-trip from Philly for USD $240. You realize
there is perhaps plan for a Washington DC PGDay on March 30? I think
they are waiting on an venue too.

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> Jon T Erdman (aka StuckMojo)
> PostgreSQL Zealot
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> On 02/03/2012 09:21 AM, Jon Erdman wrote:
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> > I'm sorry, I should have mentioned that we are expecting to pick up
> > the airfare and hotel for out of town speakers, except perhaps Magnus
> > (assuming he comes) since he's coming from Europe, but for him we hope
> > to work something out with the NYC PGDay team where we share that cost
> > between the two events.
> >
> > The sponsorship situation will determine how many speakers we can
> > swing, and so far we've definitely got money from Enova, and very
> > likely PG.us, and hopefully VMWare. We'll be reaching out to other
> > potential sponsors as things solidify.
> >
> > Stay tuned, and please let us know if you would like to speak (a few
> > of you already have). Oh, and please include Jim Nasby on replies
> > related to speaking.
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> > Jon T Erdman (aka StuckMojo)
> > PostgreSQL Zealot
> >
> > On 02/02/2012 08:33 PM, Jon Erdman wrote:
> >>
> >> So I was chatting on IRC today, and guess who's interested? The
> >> illustrious Andrew Dunstan, and he's already got a talk on
> >> pg+json+plv8 which would be quite a cool topic, based on the plv8
> >> talk I went to in Amsterdam by Will Leinweber from Heroku.
> >>
> >> I've copied him here, as well as a few other usual suspects as
> >> prospective speakers:
> >>
> >> Andrew Dunstan
> >> Steven Frost
> >> Josh Berkus
> >> Greg Smith
> >> David Fetter (already said he can't make it)
> >> Joe Conway (same, but who knows?)
> >> Bruce Momjian (tentatively committed)
> >> Magnus Hagander
> >> Josh Drake
> >> Jonathan Katz
> >> Will Leinweber
> >> Rob Brucks (Local Rackspace DBA)
> >> Corey Horton (Local Dell MessageOne DBA)
> >>
> >> For those of you that don't know, we're looking to have it on
> >> 3/28/2012 and it looks like we've found a venue for 100 people in
> >> a classroom setting for only $350 (Katz I know you hate me right
> >> now!) in nice a hotel with reasonable rooms @ $139/night. As a
> >> result we might be able to bring in more speakers than we
> >> originally thought, depending on how much more sponsorship we can
> >> pick up.
> >>
> >> Those of you who think you'd like to speak, please reply! If you
> >> can think of anyone else you might be interested, please forward
> >> this.
> >>
> >> FYI Average high temps in Austin on 3/28 are 75F with a record of
> >> 98F ;)
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> Jon Erdman (aka StuckMojo)
> PostgreSQL Zealot

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