Re: december meeting wrapup

On Dec 21, 2006, at 9:57 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
>
>> I've gotten two volunteers for April/May presentations, but we
>> need some ideas for January/February/March! Please don't be shy.
>>
>> Ideas:
>> * Something awesome you're doing with 8.2
>> * Something horrible 8.2 fixed for you
>> * Some other procedural language presentation
>> * Python and PostgreSQL
>> * the PostgreSQL C API
>
> I had offered to do something on this, hadn't I? Alas, I have far
> less time these days than when I offered. But I could probably put
> together something in a few hours based on a data type I created.
> It'd be more on how to create new data types in C than on the Pg
> API. But it might be better if I first did a presentation on
> creating new data types with DOMAINs. I owe ORA an article on that,
> anyway, so I have to find the tuits eventually. ;-)

The DOMAINs talk sounds great. I actually have a talk lined up for
January now (thanks, Rafael & Bill!) -- what do you think about
giving the DOMAINs talk in February?

>> Finally, Rafael raised the spectre of podcasting once again. I
>> will get everything together to actually do the podcast next
>> time. If anyone has a USB thumb-drive that they can commit to
>> bringing to the meeting to help facilitate this, please let me know.
>
> What happened to the recording of my last talk?

Not sure! Is Chris Dawson on the list? He was going to grab it and
put it somewhere.

-selena