A Story Behind the Conference,or How pgDay Asia was born

Satoshi Nagayasu

pgDay Asia 2016 | Singapore

Who Am I?

A Few Years Ago...• I was working as chairperson of Japan

PostgreSQL Users Group.

• I just started thinking of new PostgreSQL conference for the people, mainly coming from Asian countries...

Why?• Wanted to introduce PostgreSQL to the Asian

people.

• Wanted to introduce Asia to the PostgreSQL community.

• Obviously, itʼs worth involving Asian communities and people, but going to Ottawa & Europe is not easy thing for the Asian people.

“Can we make it?”

“I have no idea...”

What could I do at that time?

• Just nothing.

• Because I was not familiar with Asian countries and communities.

What did I do at that time?• Just started inviting from Asia.

• Just started traveling around Asia.

• To find the people.

• To know the people.

PostgreSQL Conference 2014 Japan

pgcon 2012 @ Ottawapgcon 2013 @ Ottawapgcon 2014 @ Ottawa

(Hong Kong)pgcon china 2014 @ Shenzhen

(Beijing)FOSSASIA 2015 @ Singapore

pgcon 2015 @ OttawaCOSCUP 2015 @ Taipei

(HKOSCon 2016 @ Hong Kong)

A friend of mine in China asked me...

“Why are you traveling in Asia so many times

even you live in Asia?Donʼt you want to go Europe?”

“Hmm...”

FOSSASIA 2015 Singapore

I met the guy in Singapore.

“Can we make it?”

“Yeah, may be...”

Then, I made a pitchat pgcon 2015.

[WIP] pgDay Asia 2016

Satoshi Nagayasu

Japan PostgreSQL Users Group

pgDay Asia @ FOSSASIA 2016

• FOSSASIA 2016– March 18h-20th in Singapore

• As A Joint Event with FOSSASIA 2016– 1 Day, 2 Tracks (not fixed yet)

• Still “Work In Progress”, but mark your calendar NOW!

Letʼs put “PostgreSQL”on the T-shirt next time!

“Can we make it?”

“Probably...”

6 months later...

The Team

“Can we make it?”

“Yeah, we have to...”

CfPVenue

Visa Issue…

Everythingfor Program and Logistics

Another 6 months past...

In this week...

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We made it!We made it!

Itʼs safe to say thatAsian PostgreSQL communities are

able to runpan-Asian conference

once a year.

And alsoFLOSS communities can

help PostgreSQL communities,

and vise versa.

Running conferences isa really tough job.

I canʼt thank Sameer morefor his help

while I was spending an extreme busy & tough time.

Thanks toSameer, Bruce, Nikhil, the team, Ashnik people, and all the people who helped

us make this happen.

And of course, thanks toFOSSASIA organizers,

Hong Phuc Dang,Mario Behling

andJustin Lee

Special Thanks:

Mami Kurokawa(Web site design & coding)

Most importantly,

All the speakersand

All the attendees

Whatʼs next?

It depends on you.

Please give us your feedback,

and see you next time^H^H^H^Hyear!

Greatest Quote from pgconfor Conference Attendees

“Keep coming.”

byDan Langille

Thanks