(poll) What kind of meeting do you want?

[Christopher Browne]

On 4/22/05, Andrew Hammond <ahammond-swQf4SbcV9C7WVzo/KQ3Mw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Speaking of tutorials, I bet that Chris could be convinced to give a
> talk on the inner workings of slony (the async postgres replication
> system).

While plausible, I think the folks interested in "inner workings" are
the ones that came to Toronto back in January to talk about Slony-II. 
And I'm certainly not doing the "inner workings" talk until I get
around to doing some of the post-1.1 work on the "inner guts."

There would definitely be considerable value in doing something
relatively introductory on Slony-I so as to expand the set of people
that know something about it.

That's what I'm preparing for OSCON, and it is worthy of note for
those that are looking for "things possibly worth dollars" that SRA
America (a Japanese company that is doing a lot of PostgreSQL
deployments) has lately been trying to recruit people with Slony-I
expertise.  (Pulling them to the Big Apple, not to Toronto, so that's
arguably distant...)

There is something of a "nexus of interest" here in Toronto, in that I
can think of three separate places where it's in use:

1.  Afilias, obviously :-)
2.  Rod Taylor, one of the PostgreSQL core that has sometimes done
contract work for RHAT, went to the extent of "hacking up" a version
of Slony-I to get it to work on PostgreSQL 7.2 to help one of his
clients upgrade to a new version of PostgreSQL.  He's somewhere
midtown.
3. Darcy Cain has been pretty avid, if not too visible lately.  (I
last saw him at BSDCan last May; he was making very interested noises
back when Slony-I was only half-working...)

Add anyone else, and they might even become an excuse for SRA to open
a Canadian division ;-).
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