Schedule - PostgreSQL Development Conference 2025

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Postgres Community Summit

Level: Beginner

Community building, support, and maintenance are all critical to the future of Postgres. There are many types and layers to community building from events, podcasts, & meetups to extracurricular fun like chess & karaoke; recognition & rewards to Postgres booths at non-Postgres conferences; getting started in smaller communities to wrangling a global one.

In this 3-hour summit we will:

  • Have short presentations from the hosts on different aspects of community
  • Perform a short exercise to gather the group’s thoughts on some key questions:
    • What does community mean?
    • How do we make it easier for people to get involved?
    • What community initiatives already exist? What’s missing? How can we improve them?
  • Break into smaller groups to tackle areas the group believes are most important
  • Report out the larger group by each small group
  • Each group adds their results to the PostgreSQL Wiki
  • Determine a way for us to track our progress moving forward

Pre-work: We will gather some interest prior to the summit on topics for discussion.

Due to the interactive nature of the summit participation is limited to 40 people. Participants should be committed to build, support, or maintain a community in some way, and be ready to leave the summit with concrete action items to move the Postgres community forward. While the hosts from this summit are from the US & Europe, we hope that folks from less established Postgres communities will join us.

Materials needed: sticky notes, pens, white board & pens, space to break into smaller groups (can be in the same room if large enough), beverages, snacks

Speaker

Andreas Scherbaum
Henrietta Dombrovskaya
Pat Wright
Teresa Giacomini