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3rd TorontoPUG Meetup

ian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:45:49 +0100

Event: TorontoPUG meeting Date: August 25th, 2008, 7:30 PM Location: The Rhino (www.therhino.ca), 1249 Queen St. West, Toronto RSVP: Send a brief message to Ian: torontopug.august2008@hardcircle.net It's time for the third monthly meeting of TorontoPUG! For our first meeting, we will going back to a social setting at the Rhino. 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. Please RSVP by sending a quick message to torontopug.august2008@hardcircle.net, and feel free to bring someone along! 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/. We are always looking for speakers interested in presenting to our group!

July TorontoPUG Slides

ian — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:47:38 +0100

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.

July TorontoPUG Meetup

ian — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:23:27 +0100

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/.

Looking for presenters

ian — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:18:06 +0100

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.

Toronto PUG Night

ian — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:49:05 +0100

Event: TorontoPUG meeting Date: June 23rd, 2008, 7:30 PM Location: The Rhino (www.therhino.ca), 1249 Queen St. West, Toronto RSVP: Send a brief message to Ian: torontopug.june2008@hardcircle.net I'm pleased to announce the first meeting of the Toronto area PostgreSQL User Group, TorontoPUG! Our first meeting will be on June 23rd, at 7:30 PM, at the Rhino. 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. Please RSVP by sending a quick message to torontopug.june2008@hardcircle.net so we can ensure there is enough space. 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/.

PDXPUG Meeting 6/19/08: The Relational Model

selenamarie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:40:30 +0100

Topic: The Relational Model Who: Jeff Davis Date: 6/19/08, 7pm Where: FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR Come to our next PostgreSQL Users Group meeting where Jeff Davis will discuss the finer points of the Relational Model, otherwise known as the model upon which all major SQL databases systems like Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL are based. He's fresh off giving a talk about this at PgCon, where it was very well received! Here's his abstract from that talk: "This talk focuses on two common data management tasks, and how the relational model can help. First, how to answer complex questions about your data, and provide an answer that can be understood by non-IT people unambiguously. Second, how to effectively extract meaning from disorganized (or under-documented) data sets for effective data migration or reporting. The relational model, on which all SQL DBMSs are based, is founded on both logic and sets. Relational operators like JOIN and UNION have a direct logical meaning, and you can use those operators to answer complex questions from your data unambiguously. Not only can you provide unambiguous answers, but you can translate SQL queries into the language of logic, which can be understood by people outside of IT. Equally important is the utility of logic working backwards to help find meaning in disorganized (or perhaps undocumented) data sets. Nearly every inherited data set is less than perfectly documented, and often inconsistent. Changes to (or replacement of) the application require this data to be migrated. By iteratively making assertions and then testing them using the rules of logic and the convenience of sets, you can find exceptions and contradictions that help you refine the meaning of data, and possibly correct inconsistencies."

PDXPUG: PostgreSQL for Pythoneers!

selenamarie — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:32:50 +0100

Topic: PostgreSQL for Pythoneers Speaker: Jason Kirtland Date: Thursday, 5/15/08 Location: FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Ave Come join us for an evening of Pythoneering with Jason Kirtland, a key force behind the Portland Python Interest Group - http://wiki.python.org/moin/PortlandPythonUserGroup. They are having Lightning Talks tomorrow night at Cubespace. Jason hasn't provided too many details at this point, but I imagine it will be a tour of a popular Python ORM and a discussion of using it with PostgreSQL. "A tour of SQLAlchemy [1], an open source database toolkit and object relational mapper in Python. The tour will be SQL heavy and Python-light, and I'm planning on focusing on the object relational mapping part of the tool. If you have a schema that you'd like to see mapped, send it my way and I'll do my best to work it in to the presentation. [1] http://www.sqlalchemy.org/" Also, Jason has offered to map RT - a continuation of our refactored schema meeting for RT. Refreshments afterward at the Lucky Lab!