Postgres Weekly News - December 09 2007

8.3 beta 4 is out. Keep on testing!

FISL 9.0 will be happening April 17-19, 2008 at PUCRS in Porto Alegre,

Brazil. Lecture proposals are due by December 17. Sorry about the

late notice.
https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/speaker/

To help with the Italian translation of the Postgres documentation,

please visit:
https://labs.psql.it/wiki/Traduzioni

Developer.com survey: help bring PostgreSQL numbers up!
http://solutions.internet.com/index.php/4431_default/d06d68c39e4b77545d082da8d2ea5d86

PgCon.br was a smash hit with over 200 attendees.
http://www.postgresql.org.br/encontronacionalpostgresql

Xing now has a PostgreSQL group:
https://www.xing.com/net/postgresql

Postgres Product News

Full-page write improvement project is out.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pglesslog/

2ndQuadrant now has a PostgreSQL Performance course.
http://www.2ndquadrant.com/training.html

pgloader 2.2.5 released.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/

PostGis 1.3.2 released.
http://www.postgis.org/

Postgres Jobs for December

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2007-12/threads.php

Postgres Local

PGCon 2008 Call for Papers starts December 19. Start your papers now.
http://www.pgcon.org/2008/papers.php

The BSD and PostgreSQL teams share a developer room at FOSDEM 2008 in

Brussels. If you want to give a talk or help managing the dev room,

contact fosdem@pgug.eu. For more information, see:
http://fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql

PostgreSQL Conference East '08 talks are March 28 and 29.
http://www.postgresqlconference.org/

Postgres in the News

Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/

General Bits, Archives and occasional new articles:
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/

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