A month ago I mentioned a surprising number of Postgres activities in Philadelphia. One month later, those events are past but now there are more.

First, PG East is shaping up to be a big conference:

• The conference agenda looks very full, with both developer and business-oriented talks. The business-oriented focus is rather new for Postgres conferences, and I think signals more mainstream adoption of Postgres.
• It is at the Warwick Hotel. This lobby photo should give you a good idea of how nice the hotel is — we will simply have to adjust to having a Postgres conference in a fancy hotel.
• Noel Yuhanna of Forrester Research will be speaking. He is the person who authored last year’s Forrester Wave report that found Ingres and MySQL as the leading open source databases (news report). You can judge for yourself how much “research” went into that report, but we will be nice to him — a bodyguard will be unnecessary.

Registrations are now being accepted. There is a useful “Reasons to Attend” page that will help people who are undecided.

Second, it looks like I will be co-teaching a database class at Drexel University again this summer, but this time, a new, more advanced class that will highlight Postgres technology. Drexel wants to expand their database offerings and train skilled Postgres engineers. Postgres certainly offers students a unique opportunity to understand database technology.