Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

You have a really cool open source project and everyone should see it, try it, and use it. But … they don’t seem to know about it. How can you make sure your project gets the press coverage it deserves? More importantly, how can you do it without compromising your open source community relationships and principles?

Josh Berkus will go over the methods he’s used for the last 7 years to publicize both the OpenOffice.org and the PostgreSQL projects. He’ll also show you how you can use OSS methods and tools not just to get PR done, but to get it done better than proprietary methods.

Slides will be up at http://www.pgexperts.com/presentations.html by the end of the conference.

Tags

community, project management

Speaking experience

Speaker

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  Josh Berkus

  PostgreSQL Project
  • Website: http://www.pgexperts.com/
  • Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup
  • Twitter: fuzzychef

  Biography

  Josh Berkus is best known as a Core Team member of the world-spanning PostgreSQL project. He is CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. and in his 12 years as a database consultant he has worked with CouchDB, MySQL, Oracle, and MSSQL Server as well as Postgres, and is heavily involved in many OSS communities, including BIRT, OSCON, OSfA, Noisebridge and more. He’s also a potter and a mean cook.

  Sessions

  • * Building a SQL Database That Works
    • Title: Building a SQL Database That Works
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
    • Excerpt:

      As a developer, what you really need are some simple recipes for how to think about designing your SQL databases so that they are simple, maintainable, expandable and easy to troubleshoot.

    • Speakers: Josh Berkus
  • * Open Source Press Relations
    • Title: Open Source Press Relations
    • Track: Business
    • Room: Hawthorne
    • Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
    • Excerpt:

      You have a really cool open source project and everyone should see it, try it, and use it. But … they don’t seem to know about it. How can you make sure your project gets the press coverage it deserves?

    • Speakers: Josh Berkus