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Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! The eleventh edition of PGDay.IT has come to the end and we want to say thanks to everyone, a real thanks coming from the heart. Thanks to the attendees who have believed in the event. With 196 subscribers, of which 192 attendees coming from various regions of Italy such as Lombardia, Ve... read more

We are very proud to announce that we have a new Partner: Arcoda We asked Daniele Sevegnani, Co-Founder and CFO di Arcoda, for a comment about why he thought it appropriate for Arcoda to be a Partner of the PGDay.It 2017. This is his answer: “We’re very excited about the partnership in PGDay.IT. We strongly believe that PostgreSQL is the bes... read more

We are very excited to announce the opening Keynote for PGDay.IT 2017: Krzysztof Nienartowicz - Gaia Thank you for joining us! We look forward to being there! Krzysztof is a leader of Gaia Data Processing Centre in Geneva which is part of European Space Agency Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. His journey with increasingly challe... read more

We are very happy to announce that another Partner decides to support PGDay.IT: Ispirer Systems Thank you for joining us! We asked Yury Jhol, Chief Technical Officer of Ispirer Systems, for a comment about why he thought it appropriate for Ispirer Systems to be a Partner of the PGDay.It 2017. This is his answer: “Ispirer Systems would like t... read more

We are very proud to announce that we have a new Partner: THUX Historically, a company connected to the Open Source world and this is the first time that THUX srl is a Partner of PGDay.IT We hope this is just the beginning! We asked Ilario Tariello, BDM of THUX, for a comment about why he thought it appropriate for THUX srl to become Partner ... read more

Thanks to the adoption of Open Source, Metodo is a successful company and recognises in PostgreSQL one of its competitive advantages. We asked Franco Violi, Direttore di Metodo, for a comment about whyhe thought it appropriate for Metodo Srl to be a Partner of the PGDay.It 2017. This is his answer: “Metodo is Partner of PGDay.IT because they ... read more

I suppose that most of us have happened to receive a “no” from our boss to our request to attend important conferences that would improve our skills, such as PGDay.IT. Before we decide to take some days off, buy the ticket and so on, maybe we should ask if we best argued our request. So, what is better than a good e-mail to our boss? Subject... read more

Seeweb promote Open Source and is Partner of PGDay.IT We are very happy to announce that another Partner decide to support PGDay.IT: Seeweb Thank you for joining us! We asked Marco Cristofanilli for a comment about whyhe thought it appropriate for Seeweb to be a Partner of the PGDay.IT 2017. This is his answer: “We are always close to the o... read more

New Partner for PGDay.IT but not new for PostgreSQL: a warm welcome to 20tab. We asked Gabriele Giaccari, co-founder of 20tab with Roberto De Ioris and Raffaele Colace, for a comment about whyhe thought it appropriate for 20tab s.r.l. to be a Partner of the PGDay.IT 2017. This is his answer: “20tab has used Postgres in every project since it... read more

We are very proud to announce that another historic Partner is still with us: Miriade In 2013, Miriade has done the first appearance alongside PGDay.IT and since then, at each edition Miriade is with us. Thanks for being still part of the PGDay.IT! We asked Maurizio Novello, CEO di Miriade, for a comment about whyhe thought it appropriate fo... read more

We are very proud to announce that we have a new Partner: Subito In 2015, Subito introduced their database architecture based on PostgreSQL, representing one of the most interesting use case that will be at PGDay.IT with numbers such as: “1,500,000 unique visitors, 60,000,000 pages visited per day, 150,000 new ads published”, numbers like the... read more

We are very proud to announce that we have a new Partner: R3 GIS Srl Historically, a company connected to the Open Source world and this is the first time that R3 GIS Srl is a Partner of PGDay.IT We hope this is is only the beginning! We asked Paolo Viskanic, CEO of R3 GIS, for a comment about why he thought it appropriate for R3 GIS Srl to... read more

Looking at the PostgreSQL website in the Events section, it is clear that there is great movement around the organization of PGDay and PGConf events around the world. Volunteers everywhere spend their time organising events dedicated to PostgreSQL, driven by the desire to divulge information and knowledge about PostgreSQL. There is so much w... read more

A big thanks to our Technical Commission: Thank you for your great work! It will seems silly to thank the Technical Commission of PGDay.IT 2017 for the work done, but we are sure it’s necessary because we are aware we gave them a very difficult task. As you know, 41 talk proposals were sent for PGDay.IT 2017 and all have interesting technical... read more

The time to respond to Call for Papers is over! Call for Papers for PGDay.IT 2017 losed at midnight on July 23, 2017. We thank all those who have submitted their talk proposals, there are so many. Just to give you some more information, we can say that we received 41 proposals, in Italian and in English languages. And all proposals are very ... read more

PostgreSQL 10 Beta Released! Most of you already know that PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced that the beta release of PostgreSQL 10 is available for download (first on 2017-05-18 and the second on 2017-07-13). This release contains previews of all of the features which will be available in the final release of version 10. Users ... read more

2ndQuadrant - one of the historical Partners of PGDay.IT We are very proud to announce that we have the first Partner of the PGDay.IT: 2ndQuadrant Historically this company has supported PGDay.IT for many years in its PostgreSQL advocacy path. Thanks for joining us again! We asked Umair Shaid, 2ndQuadrant’s Head of Marketing and Products, f... read more

Organising PGDay.It requires dedication and hard work by volunteers who are part of the non-profit association ITPUG. Like every conference, there are many things to organise and prepare in order to run the event and exceed expectations. But the hard work and commitment of volunteers is not enough to make PGDay.It great for its participants, ... read more

EuroPython is a fantastic European and evolving event dedicated to Python. The 2017 edition is taking place in Rimini. Everyone knows that PostgreSQL and Python have a lot in common and often go hand in hand. Why we are talking about EuroPython in PGDay.IT’s blog? Marco Nenciarini, President and Founding Member of ITPUG, a historical member o... read more

Following some specific requests, the Organising Committee has postponed the deadline for submitting a talk proposal on “PGDay.IT”, the PostgreSQL Italian National event that will held in Milan on October 13th, 2017. The new deadline is: July 23th, 2017 It’s the last opportunity to submit your talk proposal, do not miss it! Submit here your t... read more

PGDay.IT is the Italian national event dedicated to the promotion of PostgreSQL. The Italian edition is one of the most enduring in the whole Postgres community and it is the result of the work that has been promoted by the consolidated non-profit organisation ITPUG (Italian PostgreSQL Users Group). The first PGDay1 took place on July 6th and ... read more

Here we are! Registrations to attend PGDay.IT 2017 are open. Tickets are available here As with the previous editions, we have provided 3 different types of tickets: Early Bird: 47,00 € that will no longer be available from September 16th, 2017. From September 16th to October 12th the Ordinary tickets will be available: 95,00 €. ... read more

New deadline: July 23th, 2017 PGDay.IT 2017 will be held on October 13th in Milan. If you want to be part of this event as a speaker … please, knock and the door will be opened! Who should apply as speaker for PGDay.IT 2017? PostgreSQL users Companies that rely PostgreSQL PostgreSQL hackers or PostgreSQL Tool Developers Anyone who wa... read more

We are very excited - not only because of the huge amount of caffeine drinks consumed - but also because our team is putting all the dots to bring to the highest levels the largest Italian event focused on PostgreSQL: PGDay.IT 2017. This year the event will be held in Milan. A city easily reacheble from all Italian cities and also from Europe. ... read more