Contributions for week 1-4, 2026
Cornelia Biacsics | Feb. 2, 2026 | Category: contributionsThe Nordic PGDay 2026 Call for Paper Committee met to finalize the talk selection:
- Georgios Kokolatos
- Louise Leinweber
- Liisa Hämäläinen
- Thea Stark
PGDay Paris 2026 schedule has also been announced — talk selection was made by:
- Pavlo Golub
- Sarah Conway
- Valeria Kaplan
On Monday, January 26, the Prague PostgreSQL Meetup: January Edition met. It was organized by Mayuresh B. and Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek.
Speaker:
- Teresa Lopes
- Josef Machytka
- Luigi Nardi
Prague PostgreSQL Dev Day 2026 (P2D2) happened from January 27 - January 28.
Organized by:
- Pavel Hák
- Matěj Klonfar
- Jan Pěček
- Ellyne Phneah
- Pavel Stěhule
- Tomáš Vondra
- Aleš Zelený
Talk selection committee:
- Pavlo Golub
- Pavel Hák
- Hana Litavská
- Teresa Lopes
- Mayur B
- Esther Miñano
- Josef Šimánek
- Pavel Stěhule
- Tomáš Vondra
Workshops:
- Hettie Dombrovskaya
- Jonathan, Danish
- Tomas Vondra
- Nazir Bilal Yavuz
- Josef Machytka
- Pavlo Golub
Talks:
- Cagri Biroglu
- Jakub Kuzela
- Alexander Kukushkin
- Kranthi Kiran Burada
- Narendra Tawar
- Bruce Momjian
- Anton Borisov
- Mohsin Ejaz
- Petr Šmejkal
- Michal Bartak
- Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek
- Teresa Lopes
- Ants Aasma
- Robert Treat
- Luigi Nardi
- Peter Zaitsev
- Grant Fritchey
- Radim Marek
- Adam Wolk
Lightning talks:
- Mayuresh B.
- Michal Bartak
- Sergey Chehuta
- Alijaz Mur Erzen
- Josef Machytka
- Henrietta Dombrovskaya
- Ants Aasma
- Jonathan Battiato
- Ellyne Phneah
- Mohsin Ejaz
- Anton Borisov
- Luigi Nardi
PostgreSQL was represented at FOSDEM’26 which took place from January 31 - February 1
Databases Devroom Speakers:
- Rohit Nayak
- Shlomi Noach
- Ben Dicken
- Pep Pla
- Jimmy Angelakos
- Daniël van Eeden
- Nicoleta Lazar
- Charly Batista
- Greg Potter
- Kevin Biju
- Georgi Kodinov
- Sunny Bains
Databases Devroom Volunteers:
- Raymond Paik
- Frédéric Descamps
- Rohit Nayak
- Alastair Turner
- Floor Drees
- Hari Krishna Sunder
- Matt Lord
- Anna Widenius
- Edith Puclla
- Matthias Crauwels
- Mattias Jonsson
- Peter Eisentraut
On January 30, PostgreSQL developer met at the FOSDEM PGDay 2026 Developer Meeting. It was organized by Peter Eisentraut.
FOSDEM PGDay 2026 happened on January 31.
Organized by:
- Andreas Scherbaum
- Celeste Horgan
- Dave Page
- Ilya Kosmodemiansky
- Karen Jex
- Magnus Hagander
- Stefan Fercot
- Teresa Lopes
Speaker:
- Daniel Gustafsson
- Alexander Sosna
- Tomas Vondra
- Stefan Fercot
- Jonathan Battiato
- Pierre Ducroquet
- Claire Giordano
- Amit Langote
- Thomas Munro
- Derk van Veen
- Bruce Momjian
- Matt Cornillon
Lightning Talks:
- Jimmy Angelakos
- Floor Drees with Jonathan Gonzalez
- Devrim Gunduz
- Mayuresh B.
At FOSDEM PGDay 2026 & FOSDEM’26 the following volunteers helped with several tasks (incl. the PostgreSQL Booth):
- Chris Ellis
- Dave Pitts
- Devrim Gündüz
- Ilaria Battiston
- Jan Wieremjewicz
- Jimmy Angelakos
- Joris Pelgröm
- Kai Wagner
- Matt Cornillon
- Michael Banck
- Pavlo Golub
- Pep Pla
- Sebastiaan Mannem
- Tobias Bussmann
- Boriss Mejias
- Yoann La Cancellera
- plus more as during the day, more PostgreSQL community members showed up to help (without signing up before)
A new podcast episode “How I got started with DBtune (& why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi “ was published on January 16 2026 by Claire Giordano - from her series “Talking Postgres”.
On January 14 there was another NYC PostgreSQL meetup, with Chelsea Dole speaking. Organizers were Jonathan Hinds (from sponsor Datadog), Mason Sharp, Mila Zhou, and Justin Iso took photos. The event had over 90 attendees. The organizers posted some highlights on LinkedIn.
Community Blog posts:
- PostgreSQL Meetup in Frankfurt December 2025 by Andreas Scherbaum
- I Can’t Close 2025 Without Saying Thank You to the People Behind Postgres by Haider Z
- In Defense of Beautiful Uselessness by Ellyne Phneah