Making POSETTE: An Event for Postgres with Teresa Giacomini & Aaron Wislang | Talking Postgres Ep16

It’s not a conference unless you can confer, right? In this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly called Path To Citus Con*), POSETTE organizers Teresa Giacomini and Aaron Wislang join Claire Giordano to share backstage perspectives on the making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres—a free & virtual developer event organized by the Postgres team at Microsoft, and which has become the largest Postgres event in the world. How do you feel about captions: love or hate? Should livestream talks be pre-recorded or presented live? Why rename from Citus Con to POSETTE? Where did the inspiration for POSETTE come from? And can the hallway track at a conference actually be fun—if it is virtual? Also discussed: Avett Brothers lyrics, the surprising number of POSETTE speakers with chickens, and the existential question of whether the work in organizing a conference is worth it.

Chapters:
⏩ 00:00 Introductions
⏩ 5:24 What makes a conference?
⏩ 7:13 Accessibility & captions
⏩ 25:33 “Structure” of POSETTE
⏩ 35:46 Inspired by P99 Conf
⏩ 39:23 Talk selection
⏩ 1:00:09 Renaming Citus Con
⏩ 1:09:11 Chickens and POSETTE
⏩ 1:18:20 Open source as team sport
⏩ 1:24:57 Different timezones

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