<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">A reminder that the CFP for PGCon 2019 closes on 19 January.</div><div class="">That's a Saturday, but in reality, we don't start closing access off</div><div class="">until Monday, so you have the whole weekend to get your submission in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PGCon 2019 will be on 30-31 May 2019 at University of Ottawa.<br class=""><br class="">* 28-29 May (Tue-Wed) tutorials<br class="">* 29 May (Wed) The Unconference<br class="">* 30-31 May (Thu-Fri) talks - the main part of the conference<br class=""><br class="">See <a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2019/" class="">http://www.pgcon.org/2019/</a><br class=""><br class="">We are now accepting proposals for the main part of the conference (30-31 May).<br class="">Proposals can be quite simple. We do not require academic-style papers.<br class=""><br class="">If you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please submit<br class="">a proposal. You might be one of the backend hackers or work on a<br class="">PostgreSQL related project and want to share your know-how with<br class="">others. You might be developing an interesting system using PostgreSQL<br class="">as the foundation. Perhaps you migrated from another database to<br class="">PostgreSQL and would like to share details. These, and other stories<br class="">are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their<br class="">experiences.<br class=""><br class="">Here are a some ideas to jump start your proposal process:<br class=""><br class="">- novel ways in which PostgreSQL is used<br class="">- migration of production systems from another database<br class="">- data warehousing<br class="">- tuning PostgreSQL for different work loads<br class="">- replication and clustering<br class="">- hacking the PostgreSQL code<br class="">- PostgreSQL derivatives and forks<br class="">- applications built around PostgreSQL<br class="">- benchmarking and performance engineering<br class="">- case studies<br class="">- location-aware and mapping software with PostGIS<br class="">- The latest PostgreSQL features and features in development<br class="">- research and teaching with PostgreSQL<br class="">- things the PostgreSQL project could do better<br class="">- integrating PostgreSQL with 3rd-party software<br class=""><br class="">Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences.<br class=""><br class="">The schedule is:<br class=""><br class="">1 Dec 2018 Proposal acceptance begins<br class="">19 Jan 2019 Proposal acceptance ends<br class="">19 Feb 2019 Confirmation of accepted proposals<br class=""><br class="">NOTE: the call for lightning talks will go out very close to the conference.<br class="">Do not submit lightning talks proposals until then.<br class=""><br class="">See also <a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2019/papers.php" class="">http://www.pgcon.org/2019/papers.php</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Instructions for submitting a proposal to PGCon 2019 are available<br class="">from: <a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2019/submissions.php" class="">http://www.pgcon.org/2019/submissions.php</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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