Re: Austin PGDay Speaker(s)

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On 02/03/2012 05:32 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> 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.

Damn, that's so cheap I almost want to tell you to book it now (and
twist Greg's arm) even though we don't have paperwork on the venue
yet. They said it was available and quoted the price, but we called
too late today to get a hold of them for a definite 100% yes.

You know what? Go ahead and grab it if you can. If we have to change
the day (very unlikely) I will personally eat the cost of that ticket.
That's just too cheap to pass up!

Yes sir, Mr. Katz and I planned it that way so we could share
speakers. The idea is folks can come into Austin, then hit DC, then
NYC, then out. This will work particularly well for Magnus.
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Jon T Erdman (aka StuckMojo)
PostgreSQL Zealot

On 02/03/2012 05:32 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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. - -- Jon T Erdman (aka
>>> StuckMojo) PostgreSQL Zealot
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>>> On 02/02/2012 08:33 PM, Jon Erdman wrote:
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>>>> 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 ;)
>> -- Jon Erdman (aka StuckMojo) PostgreSQL Zealot
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