<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hello,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are two days left in the PGCon 2017 CFP, which closes on 19 January.</div><div class="">Please get your submissions in soon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PGCon 2017 will be on 23-26 May 2017 at University of Ottawa.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* 23-24 (Tue-Wed) tutorials</div><div class="">* 24 (Wed) The Unconference</div><div class="">* 25-26 (Thu-Fri) talks - the main part of the conference</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See <a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2017/" class="">http://www.pgcon.org/2017/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are now accepting proposals for the main part of the conference (25-26 May).</div><div class="">Proposals can be quite simple. We do not require academic-style papers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please submit</div><div class="">a proposal. You might be one of the backend hackers or work on a</div><div class="">PostgreSQL related project and want to share your know-how with</div><div class="">others. You might be developing an interesting system using PostgreSQL</div><div class="">as the foundation. Perhaps you migrated from another database to</div><div class="">PostgreSQL and would like to share details. These, and other stories</div><div class="">are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their</div><div class="">experiences.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are a some ideas to jump start your proposal process:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- novel ways in which PostgreSQL is used</div><div class="">- migration of production systems from another database</div><div class="">- data warehousing</div><div class="">- tuning PostgreSQL for different work loads</div><div class="">- replication and clustering</div><div class="">- hacking the PostgreSQL code</div><div class="">- PostgreSQL derivatives and forks</div><div class="">- applications built around PostgreSQL</div><div class="">- benchmarking and performance engineering</div><div class="">- case studies</div><div class="">- location-aware and mapping software with PostGIS</div><div class="">- The latest PostgreSQL features and features in development</div><div class="">- research and teaching with PostgreSQL</div><div class="">- things the PostgreSQL project could do better</div><div class="">- integrating PostgreSQL with 3rd-party software</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The schedule is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1 Dec 2016 Proposal acceptance begins</div><div class="">19 Jan 2017 Proposal acceptance ends</div><div class="">19 Feb 2017 Confirmation of accepted proposals</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NOTE: the call for lightning talks will go out very close to the conference.</div><div class="">Do not submit lightning talks proposals until then.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See also <<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2017/papers.php" class="">http://www.pgcon.org/2017/papers.php</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Instructions for submitting a proposal to PGCon 2017 are available</div><div class="">from: <<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2017/submissions.php" class="">http://www.pgcon.org/2017/submissions.php</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">-- </div><div class="">Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:dan@langille.org" class="">dan@langille.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>