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Two (maybe three) great PostgreSQL social events. One great sponsorship opportunity!

We will be having social events at major open source conferences this year:

• O'Reilly Open Source Conference, Portland, Oregon, Sunday July 20th(1)
• LinuxWorldExpo, San Francisco, Tuesday August 5th(2)
• Maybe more (see below)

In order to "spread the love" of PostgreSQL around the Open Source community (and encourage PostgreSQL adoption!), we'd like to spend a total of $5000 to $6000 on both events, and of course can use more.

These will be larger, more public events than last year. We are expecting up to 120 people at each, including PostgreSQL hackers, web developers, IT company management, and open source luminaries. And, of course, you!

As such, I'm looking for sponsors. Here's how it works:

$500: Single-Party Sponsor: signage at entrance to *one* of the two events. Right to make one "we're hiring" announcement, and to distribute 1 piece of company literature during the pgDay. Invitations for your booth staff.

$1000: as $500, but for both events.

$2000: as $1000, with bigger logo. Plus: thank-you in the pgDay keynote, 6 reserved(2) invitatons for each event to give to customers/partners, and your name on the invitation.

$3000: as $2000, with bigger / more prominent logo. Plus: mention on all further announcements, special blog entry thanking you, and 12 reserved(3) invitations for customers/partners.

But wait, there's *more*! If we raise enough for the OSCON and LinuxWorldExpo social events, we will also have a social event at LISA USENIX conference in San Diego(4) this November. Sponsors will be featured there as well. Don't miss your chance at this opportunity ... respond now and we'll throw in a complete set of Ginzu knives(5)!

Please contact Josh Berkus (josh@postgresql.org) for further information. Due to agreement with both conferences, this will be the only sponsorship opportunity for OSCON and LWE. Any leftover funds from the events will go to the PostgreSQL fund at SPI, inc. Please contact me before June 25th regarding your interest in sponsoring. Sponsorships must be paid by August 15th.

There will be separate sponsorship calls for the PostgreSQL West and PostgreSQL East 1-day conferences, starting in October. Also, we are asking for existing project sponsors to send us 1-page flyers for the PostgreSQL Products folders.

Josh Berkus
Selena Deckelmann
PostgreSQL Project

(1)http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008
(2)http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ehall//SN460564
(3) These will be public events, and we will be handing out a limited number of invitations to conference attendees. The reserved invitations simply make sure that your guests get in to the event.
(4)http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa08/
(5) No, not really. We will give you some nice stickers, though.

Where: Linux World Expo, Moscone Center, San Francisco
When: Tuesday August 5th, from 9am to 5pm
What: Talks for a mixed audience of community & newbies
Deadline: June 17th
Who: You!

The San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group will be running a full day of
PostgreSQL sessions at LinuxWorldExpo 2008 in San Francisco. This will be
alongside the regular LinuxWorld sessions, and advertised by LinuxWorld.
Which means you can expect dozens of people new to PostgreSQL as well as
the members of SFPUG.

Which means we need you to submit a proposal *right now* for your talk at
this pgDay. We need several regular 1-hour talks, Lightning Talks (5
minutes) and a single 2-hour tutorial. Submit though the PUGS site:

1. Create your PUGS login
2. Then submit a talk

Details: talks should be aimed at a general audience, except for lightning
talks, which can be about anything PostgreSQL-related. We have no money
for travel sponsorships, but you will get free drinks. Acceptances will
be mailed by June 25th. We just need a 5-line abstract right now; you can
send slides later. Contact josh@postgreSQL.org if you have questions.

PDXPUG PgDay will be on July 20, 2008. This is a one-day conference happening the day before OSCON at the Oregon Convention Center.

Be sure to sign up to attend! Have a look at our schedule, and the full descriptions of talks.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Save The Date: OSCON PostgreSQL Day

Call for papers

PostgreSQL community,

The O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2008 schedule will soon be revealed, and
some of you -- especially those speaking -- will be making your travel
arrangements to visit Portland. But, wait! Before you buy your plane
tickets, you'd better know about the PostgreSQL Day hosted by PDXPUG!

What: All-day PostgreSQL one-track mini-conference
When: Sunday, July 20th, 9am to 5pm, possible party afterwards
Who: PDXPUG will select speakers
Where: Portland Convention Center, Portland, Oregon

Of course, we are also looking for speakers for the PostgreSQL Day. PDXPUG
wants four hour-long sessions and one 2.5-hour workshop. Please
e-mail selena -at- postgresql.org with your offer to speak and speakers will be selected in mid-April.

Thanks to Josh Berkus, Joshua Drake, the OSCON conference and PDXPUG
for helping make this happen!