For those of you who could not make it, or who would like to find out more, here are the slides for the presentations at the July TorontoPUG. Thanks to all who came out!

Our next meeting will be a social event on the evening of Monday, August 25th. The venue will be announced shortly.

Event: TorontoPUG meeting
Date: July 28th, 2008, 7:30 PM
Location: Nulogy Office, 183 Bathurst St., Suite 400, Toronto
RSVP: Send a brief message to Ian: torontopug.july2008@hardcircle.net

It's time for the second meeting of the Toronto area PostgreSQL User Group, aka TorontoPUG.

Our next meeting is on July 28th, at 7:30 PM, at the Nulogy office (http://www.nulogy.com) . This will be an opportunity to meet others using PostgreSQL in the area, to learn how others are using PostgreSQL in different ways, or to learn basics about the PostgreSQL project. Bring your friends and anyone you know, everyone is welcome!

This month, we will be featuring two presentations:

• Steve Singer will be giving a presentation on various replication options for PostgreSQL
• Ian Bailey (that's me) will be giving a presentation on the configuration options available in PostgreSQL

Refreshments will be available, so please RSVP by sending a quick message to torontopug.july2008@hardcircle.net to ensure there is enough for everyone. If you would like to present at this night or at a future one, please let me know so we can schedule you in the future.

To get updates about future events, meet people between events, and suggest ideas for future events, please join our mailing list, accessible here: http://archives.postgresql.org/torontopug/.

For the next TorontoPUG (to be held on July 28th, 2008), we will be moving to an office area, where we want to hold a few quick (15-20 min) presentations on a few different topics.

This is an open call to the community asking if anyone would be interested in presenting a topic on PostgreSQL. Some topics our members would be interested in learning about include (but feel free to suggest your own topic):

• A brief overview of replication options
• PostGIS
• An overview of tweaking PostgreSQL databases
• Differences and gotchas moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL

If you are interested in presenting, please send an email to torontopug.july2008@hardcircle.net and/or to our mailing list.