LW Boston

Started by Joshua D. Drakeabout 20 years ago11 messagesgeneral
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#1Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com

Hello,

As most of you probably know, we (PostgreSQL) were at LinuxWorld Boston
this past week. The show although small, was very positive. We received
alot of traffic and very specific pointed questions.

This is the first show that I have been to where people were actually
using PostgreSQL for their business. (OSCON was always about development).

We had several people looking for DW and BI which Greenplum was a nice
addition, plus a couple that were using OpenExchange.

We were approached by several major corps including Unisys, Hitachi and
AMD. Personally I also performed a talk at the Intel booth about
PostgreSQL which seemed to go over well.

The booth went off without a hitch and we had several community members
there.

Thanks everyone for helping us make the PostgreSQL booth the best OSS
booth in the pavilion.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
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#2Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#1)
Re: LW Boston

Josh,

Thanks everyone for helping us make the PostgreSQL booth the best OSS
booth in the pavilion.

Thank you for organizing it!

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Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

#3Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#1)
Re: LW Boston

Quoth jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake"):

Thanks everyone for helping us make the PostgreSQL booth the best OSS
booth in the pavilion.

Good show...

In what ways was the PostgreSQL booth best? Busiest? Most, um, ???
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#4Luke Lonergan
llonergan@greenplum.com
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#1)
Re: LW Boston

Josh,

On 4/8/06 10:59 AM, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:

Thanks everyone for helping us make the PostgreSQL booth the best OSS
booth in the pavilion.

Thanks for hosting - Frank and Ayush had a great time and also said there
was terrific interest there.

It's an exciting time for Postgres!

- Luke

#5Robert Bernier
robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca
In reply to: Chris Browne (#3)
Re: LW Boston

On Saturday 08 April 2006 22:32, Christopher Browne wrote:

Quoth jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake"):
Good show...

In what ways was the PostgreSQL booth best? Busiest? Most, um, ???

We had anywhere from 2 to 7+ people manning the booth at all times. Visitors
always came away with a smile on their face. Many came over to say they
supported the project. A lot of them came to ask for real problems and more
than a few were to get support and be prepared to pay for it.

How good? The MySQL booth guys came over from their booth and picked up more
than a few of our "elephant roasting dolphin" postcard.

#6Mark Aufflick
mark-postgres@aufflick.com
In reply to: Robert Bernier (#5)
Re: LW Boston

Is the artwork for the "elephant roasting dolphin" postcard online? :)

#7Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Mark Aufflick (#6)
Re: LW Boston

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 00:26, Mark Aufflick wrote:

Is the artwork for the "elephant roasting dolphin" postcard online? :)

http://www.commandprompt.com/images/mammoth_versus_dolphin_500.jpg

somewhere I think you can get t-shirts too

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#8Mitch Pirtle
mitch.pirtle@gmail.com
In reply to: Robert Bernier (#5)
Re: LW Boston

On 4/9/06, Robert Bernier <robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On Saturday 08 April 2006 22:32, Christopher Browne wrote:

Quoth jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake"):
Good show...

In what ways was the PostgreSQL booth best? Busiest? Most, um, ???

We had anywhere from 2 to 7+ people manning the booth at all times. Visitors
always came away with a smile on their face. Many came over to say they
supported the project. A lot of them came to ask for real problems and more
than a few were to get support and be prepared to pay for it.

These guys even had a steady stream of fortune cookies happily donated
by other FOSS proejcts ;-)

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Joomla! Core Developer
Open Source Matters

#9Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com
In reply to: Mitch Pirtle (#8)
Re: LW Boston

These guys even had a steady stream of fortune cookies happily donated
by other FOSS proejcts ;-)

I thought Bruce brought all of those ;)

Joshua D. Drake

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#10Mitch Pirtle
mitch.pirtle@gmail.com
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#9)
Re: LW Boston

On 4/11/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:

These guys even had a steady stream of fortune cookies happily donated
by other FOSS proejcts ;-)

I thought Bruce brought all of those ;)

You mean he actually shared the ones that he took? *gasp*

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#11Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com
In reply to: Mitch Pirtle (#10)
Re: LW Boston

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 22:58 -0400, Mitch Pirtle wrote:

On 4/11/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:

These guys even had a steady stream of fortune cookies happily donated
by other FOSS proejcts ;-)

I thought Bruce brought all of those ;)

You mean he actually shared the ones that he took? *gasp*

I think shared is too strong a word. ;)

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Joomla! Core Developer
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