From dan at langille.org Thu Dec 7 14:56:12 2017 From: dan at langille.org (Dan Langille) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:56:12 -0500 Subject: [pgcon-announce] PGCon 2018 call for papers Message-ID: <2D0A651D-F207-48F0-9CD1-09027A4E8CD3@langille.org> PGCon 2018 will be on 29 May - 1 June 2018 at University of Ottawa. * 29-30 May (Tue-Wed) tutorials * 30 May (Wed) The Unconference * 31 May - 1 June (Thu-Fri) talks - the main part of the conference See http://www.pgcon.org/2018/ We are now accepting proposals for the main part of the conference (31 May - 1 June). Proposals can be quite simple. We do not require academic-style papers. If you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please submit a proposal. You might be one of the backend hackers or work on a PostgreSQL related project and want to share your know-how with others. You might be developing an interesting system using PostgreSQL as the foundation. Perhaps you migrated from another database to PostgreSQL and would like to share details. These, and other stories are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. Here are a some ideas to jump start your proposal process: - novel ways in which PostgreSQL is used - migration of production systems from another database - data warehousing - tuning PostgreSQL for different work loads - replication and clustering - hacking the PostgreSQL code - PostgreSQL derivatives and forks - applications built around PostgreSQL - benchmarking and performance engineering - case studies - location-aware and mapping software with PostGIS - The latest PostgreSQL features and features in development - research and teaching with PostgreSQL - things the PostgreSQL project could do better - integrating PostgreSQL with 3rd-party software Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. The schedule is: 1 Dec 2017 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2018 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2018 Confirmation of accepted proposals NOTE: the call for lightning talks will go out very close to the conference. Do not submit lightning talks proposals until then. See also http://www.pgcon.org/2018/papers.php Instructions for submitting a proposal to PGCon 2018 are available from: http://www.pgcon.org/2018/submissions.php -- Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon dan at langille.org