The Making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres with Teresa Giacomini & Aaron Wislang

It’s not a conference unless you can confer, right? POSETTE organizers Teresa Giacomini and Aaron Wislang join Claire Giordano on the Path To Citus Con* podcast to share backstage perspectives on the making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. How do you feel about captions: love or hate? Should livestream talks be pre-recorded or presented live? Why rename from Citus Con to POSETTE? Where did the inspiration for POSETTE come from? And can the hallway track at a conference actually be fun—if it is virtual? Also discussed: Avett Brothers lyrics, the surprising number of POSETTE speakers with chickens, and the existential question of whether the work in organizing a conference is worth it.

*[Update: July 2024] Path To Citus Con has been renamed to Talking Postgres. All of the past podcast episodes from Path To Citus Con—now called Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano—can be found here: https://talkingpostgres.com

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Blog post: What’s in a name? About the naming of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres
• FOSDEM: the conference whose name inspired the POSETTE name
• Playlist of all 42 talks from POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024
• Playlist of the 4 unique livestreams from POSETTE 2024
• CFP is open: PGDay Lowlands 2024 Call for Papers will close July 9, 2024
• Virtual conference that POSETTE organizers were inspired by: P99 Conf
• Discord: Microsoft Open Source Discord, Home for virtual hallway track for #posetteconf
• Adam Wølk’s speaker page for POSETTE
• Speaker interview with Polina Bungina at POSETTE
• Blog post: About Talk Selection for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024, by Claire Giordano
• Blog post: Building the PGConf.dev Programme, by Paul Ramsey
• pgDay Paris 2024 note about talk selection process
• Keynote: All The Postgres Things at Microsoft, POSETTE edition, by Charles Feddersen
• Keynote: The Open Source Geospatial Community, PostGIS, & Postgres, by Regina Obe
• Keynote: Why I love open source development & what I learned from K8s, by Sarah Novotny
• Keynote: A Walking Tour of PostgreSQL, by Thomas Munro
• Lyrics from The Perfect Space by The Avett Brothers
• Video: Lessons Learned benchmarking & profiling distributed PostgreSQL, by Lotte Felius
• Video: Postgres Storytelling: Support in the Darkest Hour | Citus Con 2023, by Boriss Mejías
• Video: Postgres Storytelling: What's going on with Synchronous Replication?, by Boriss Mejías
• Video: Vindicating ZFS with PostgreSQL: Unleashing the Power of Scalability, includes a bit of jazz music by Federico Campoli
• Blog post: Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, 2024 edition
• Social post: Tweet by Kelsey Hightower with advice to conference organizers
• Video from PGConfEU 2023: So you want a PGDay in your city, by Henrietta Dombrovskaya & Teresa Giacomini
• Blog post: