Contributions for the week of 2024-10-28 (Week 44 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Nov. 4, 2024 | Category: contributions

PGConf.EU 2024, held in Athens from October 22-25, was the biggest PostgreSQL event in the world yet! It was organized by:
- Andreas Scherbaum
- Chris Ellis
- Dave Page
- Ilya Kosmodemiansky
- Jimmy Angelakos
- Karen Jex
- Magnus Hagander
- Tomas Vondra
- Valeria Kaplan
The Call for Papers Committee for PGConf.EU 2024:
- Afsane Anand
- Andreas Karlsson
- Derk van Veen
- Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek
- Stefan Fercot
The Code of Conduct Committee for PGConf.EU 2024:
- Ilya Kosmodemiansky
- Pavlo Golub
- Stacey Haysler
The following people (in random order) volunteered to help running the conference:
- Magnus Hagander
- Cornelia Biacsics
- Matthijs van der Vleuten
- Mayuresh Bagayatkar
- Sadeq Dousti
- Aditya Toshniwal
- Akshay Joshi
- Dave Page
- Raoul De Gudchteneere
- Akshat Jaimini
- Pavlo Golub
- Grant Fritchey
- Evan Stanton
- Valeria Kaplan
- Boriss Mejías
- Sergey Dudoladov
- Ryan Booz
- Matthias van de Meent
- Chris Ellis
- Jan Karremans
- Fabrice Chapuis
- Devrim Gündüz
- Ervin Weber
- Dave Cramer
- Pavel Hák
- Florin Irion
- Martin Simons
- Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek
- Jan Wieremjewicz
- Nelson Calero (ncalerouy)
- Dirk C. Aumueller
- Dirk Krautschick (d33k4y)
- Oleksii Kliukin
- Flavio Gurgel
- Katharine Saar
- Claire Page
- Andreas Scherbaum
- Jimmy Angelakos
Derk van Veen organized a chess competition during the conference. Patricia Horvath and Cornelia Biacsics helped on-site. Boriss Mejías and Jan Karremans helped with marketing of the event. Svitlana Lytvynenko created an app for the tournament, which can be re-used for other events. The winners are: Håvard, Miguel and Lætitia.
An impromptu Karaoke night at the Domahar Rock Bar in Athens drew a great Postgres crowd after the conference on Thursday 24th. The event was put together by Jimmy Angelakos, with much help, support and encouragement from Floor Drees and El Anastasiou.
On the 29th, the Prague Postgres Meetup for October took place, organised by Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek and Tomas Vondra. The speakers were Ondrej Hlavac and Josef Machytka. Josef's slides can be found here.