Prague PostgreSQL Meetup on November 18th

I am happy to announce that the next Prague PostgreSQL Meetup will take place on Monday, November 18th at 17:30 at Spaces, Nile House (Karolinská 654/2, 186 00 Praha 8-Rohanský ostrov). This will be the seventh and final meetup of 2024, so if you are in the area, please join us to close out the year with Postgres! 🇨🇿 💙 🐘

We usually hold each meetup on the last Monday of the month, but I had a prior commitment on the last Monday of November, so we moved it to the 18th. We also got some recurring feedback that the meetup talks are too long, so we decided to shorten the talks from 45 minutes to 30 minutes each this time. This way, we can have more time for coffee and networking between talks.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for future meetups, please let me know!

Prague PostgreSQL Meetup is an active community of PostgreSQL enthusiasts in Prague, Czech Republic. We have 605 members and actively meet since 2018. It is a free event and organized by volunteers like me. We do not have any one company behind the meetup. Different companies sponsor the event, sometimes offering their office space, sometimes covering the catering expenses or both.

This time Xata sponsored the event, covering the venue rental, staff, and catering expenses. It makes me double happy as the main organizer of the meetup and also a proud Xata employee! 🎉

• Noémi Ványi is a Senior Software engineer at Xata working with PostgreSQL. She was a maintainer of searx, the open source, privacy-respecting metasearch engine for 6 years. She also worked at Elastic as a Software Engineer on the open source data collectors called Beats.
• Tudor Golubenco is the CTO of Xata. Before Xata, Tudor worked as a tech lead at companies like Elastic and Oracle.

The meetup will take 2.5 hours, and we open doors at 17:30, opening talk is at 18:00 and each speaker has 30 minutes for their talk. We will have a 30 minute break in between talks for coffee and networking. and the meetup ends at 20:00.

CSPUG (Czech and Slovak PostgreSQL User Group) is organizing the 17th Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2) on January 28-29, 2025, at ČVUT FIT, Thákurova 9, Prague. This year, I’m also part of the program committee for P2D2! 🎉

As a committee member, I’ll be helping to select talks and trainings for the event. If you have something exciting to share about PostgreSQL, whether it’s a small project, an open-source tool that helps with Postgres, or hands-on training idea, we’d love to see your submissions!

📅 The deadline for submissions is November 23; so don’t miss it and submit here: P2D2 CfP

If you have any questions or need guidance with your submission, feel free to reach out. I’d be happy to help!

Call for sponsors is also open, so if you are interested in sponsoring the event, please check out the P2D2 website or send us an email at sponsors@p2d2.cz.

I hope to see you at the meetup on November 18th! 🇨🇿 💙 🐘

And don't forget to submit your talk or training to P2D2 by November 23rd!