If you live in Europe and you'd like to help improve MediaWiki's support for Postgres, please submit a talk about it to the PostgreSQL Conference Europe. I'll help you write the proposal, if you need help. Call for proposals: http://2011.pgconf.eu/callforpapers/
The deadline's on 21 August, 2 days from now. I've copied most of the CfP below. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 will be held on October 18-21 in the Casa 400 Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It will cover topics for PostgreSQL users, developers and contributors, as well as decision and policy makers. For more information about the conference, please see the website at http://2011.pgconf.eu/. We are now accepting proposals for talks. Please note that we are looking for talks in English, Dutch, German and French. Each session will last 45 minutes, and may be on any topic related to PostgreSQL. Suggested topic areas include: * Developing applications for PostgreSQL * Administering large scale PostgreSQL installations * Case studies and/or success stories of PostgreSQL deployments * PostgreSQL tools and utilities * PostgreSQL hacking * Community & user groups * Tuning the server * Migrating from other systems * Scaling/replication * Benchmarking & hardware * PostgreSQL related products Of course, we're happy to receive proposals for talks on other PostgreSQL related topics as well. We also have a limited number of longer, 90-minute, slots available. Please indicate clearly in your submission if you wish to make a 90-minute talk. Finally, there will be a session of five minute lightning talks. A separate call for proposals will be made for them further on. The submission deadline is August 21st, 2011. Selected speakers will be notified before Sep 5th, 2011. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
