The Making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres with Teresa Giacomini & Aaron Wislang
It’s not a conference unless you can confer, right? POSETTE organizers Teresa Giacomini and Aaron Wislang join Claire Giordano on the Path To Citus Con* podcast to share backstage perspectives on the making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. How do you feel about captions: love or hate? Should livestream talks be pre-recorded or presented live? Why rename from Citus Con to POSETTE? Where did the inspiration for POSETTE come from? And can the hallway track at a conference actually be fun—if it is virtual? Also discussed: Avett Brothers lyrics, the surprising number of POSETTE speakers with chickens, and the existential question of whether the work in organizing a conference is worth it.
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com
*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Blog post: What’s in a name? About the naming of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
- FOSDEM: the conference whose name inspired the POSETTE name
- Playlist of all 42 talks from POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024
- Playlist of the 4 unique livestreams from POSETTE 2024
- CFP is open: PGDay Lowlands 2024 Call for Papers will close July 9, 2024
- Virtual conference that POSETTE organizers were inspired by: P99 Conf
- Discord: Microsoft Open Source Discord, Home for virtual hallway track for #posetteconf
- Adam Wølk’s speaker page for POSETTE
- Speaker interview with Polina Bungina at POSETTE
- Blog post: About Talk Selection for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024, by Claire Giordano
- Blog post: Building the PGConf.dev Programme, by Paul Ramsey
- pgDay Paris 2024 note about talk selection process
- Keynote: All The Postgres Things at Microsoft, POSETTE edition, by Charles Feddersen
- Keynote: The Open Source Geospatial Community, PostGIS, & Postgres, by Regina Obe
- Keynote: Why I love open source development & what I learned from K8s, by Sarah Novotny
- Keynote: A Walking Tour of PostgreSQL, by Thomas Munro
- Lyrics from The Perfect Space by The Avett Brothers
- Video: Lessons Learned benchmarking & profiling distributed PostgreSQL, by Lotte Felius
- Video: Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour | Citus Con 2023, by Boriss Mejías
- Video: Postgres Storytelling: What's going on with Synchronous Replication?, by Boriss Mejías
- Video: Vindicating ZFS with PostgreSQL: Unleashing the Power of Scalability, includes a bit of jazz music by Federico Campoli
- Blog post: Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, 2024 edition
- Social post: Tweet by Kelsey Hightower with advice to conference organizers
- Video from PGConfEU 2023: So you want a PGDay in your city, by Henrietta Dombrovskaya & Teresa Giacomini
- Blog post: The Story Behind the Activity Book for Postgres, by Teresa Giacomini
Creators and Guests
Host
Claire Giordano
Claire Giordano is head of the Postgres open source community initiatives at Microsoft. Claire has served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and product marketing at Sun Microsystems, Amazon/A9, and Citus Data. At Sun, Claire managed the engineering team that created Solaris Zones, and led the effort to open source Solaris.
Producer
Aaron Wislang
Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at @Microsoft + @Azure ☁️ | @golang k8s 🐧 🐍 🦀 ☕ 🍷📷 🎹🇨🇦 | 😷 💉++ (inc. bivalent) | @aaronw.dev (on 🟦sky)
