A Lightning Talk at pgDay Asia 2016. http://2016.pgday.asia/

1. A Story Behind the Conference,
or How pgDay Asia was born
Satoshi Nagayasu
pgDay Asia 2016 | Singapore

2. Who Am I?

3. 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...

4. 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.

5. “Can we make it?”
“I have no idea...”

6. What could I do at that time?
• Just nothing.
• Because I was not familiar with Asian
countries and communities.

7. 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.

8. PostgreSQL Conference 2014
Japan

10. pgcon 2012 @ Ottawa
pgcon 2013 @ Ottawa
pgcon 2014 @ Ottawa
(Hong Kong)
pgcon china 2014 @ Shenzhen
(Beijing)
FOSSASIA 2015 @ Singapore
pgcon 2015 @ Ottawa
COSCUP 2015 @ Taipei
(HKOSCon 2016 @ Hong Kong)

11. 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...”

12. FOSSASIA 2015 Singapore

15. I met the guy in Singapore.

16. “Can we make it?”
“Yeah, may be...”

17. Then, I made a pitch
at pgcon 2015.

18. [WIP] pgDay Asia 2016
Satoshi Nagayasu
Japan PostgreSQL Users Group

19. 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!

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

21. “Can we make it?”
“Probably...”

22. 6 months later...

23. The Team

24. “Can we make it?”
“Yeah, we have to...”

25. CfP
Venue
Visa Issue
…
Everything
for Program and Logistics

26. Another 6 months past...

27. In this week...

29. s

30. We made it!
We made it!


31. Itʼs safe to say that
Asian PostgreSQL
communities are
able to run
pan-Asian conference
once a year.

32. And also
FLOSS communities can
help PostgreSQL
communities,
and vise versa.

33. Running conferences is
a really tough job.

34. I canʼt thank Sameer more
for his help
while I was spending an
extreme busy & tough time.

35. Thanks to
Sameer, Bruce, Nikhil, the
team, Ashnik people, and
all the people who helped
us make this happen.

36. And of course, thanks to
FOSSASIA organizers,
Hong Phuc Dang,
Mario Behling
and
Justin Lee

37. Special Thanks:
Mami Kurokawa
(Web site design & coding)

38. Most importantly,
All the speakers
and
All the attendees

39. Whatʼs next?

40. It depends on you.


41. Please give us your
feedback,
and see you next
time^H^H^H^Hyear!

42. Greatest Quote from pgcon
for Conference Attendees
“Keep coming.”
by
Dan Langille

43. Thanks