Re: Austin PGDay Speaker(s)

Sorry, got caught up in stuff. We have the venue locked in for 3/28 so go ahead and book. People who are clear to make travel arrangements (i.e. these people are accepted as speakers already):

Bruce
Magnus
Greg
Merlin (but he's local)

Josh B., Andrew, Wheeler - You guys are basically good too, but I'm waiting to hear from Josh about what PGX can afford...please let me know as soon as you figure it out so we know how many of you are coming, as with only one track I'm not sure we can squeeze all three of you in (see below).

Everyone else: We've checked and they do have a second smaller (30 people) room available that same day (which we have not received pricing on as yet), so we do have the option to run two tracks and accommodate more speakers. Without the second room there are basically only 8 slots, which depending on what PGX does, are pretty close to full now. We are holding one slot for the local VMWare rep to come and speak since they want to sponsor, so that consumes another one.

At this point I'm relatively certain that we'll pull the trigger and go for the second track, but I need to reach out to our potential sponsors first to make sure we have the funds to cover it, particularly the additional speaker costs to fill said track.

I will update you all ASAP. Thank you for you patience!
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On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:53:03AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>> So, should we book our flights to Austin? I do see the event on the
>> Austin meetup page:
>>
>> http://www.austinpug.org/events/50962652/
>
> FYI, I am still waiting for an answer to the question above.
>
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>> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:33:03PM -0600, 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 T Erdman (aka StuckMojo)
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>> + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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