Here’s an opportunity for fellow Terps to bulk up your database muscles, and it couldn’t be easier (”free” and “local”!) The regular PostgreSQL conference will be held on campus on March 29-30, and organizers are making this opportunity available to all our students.

Cost: Free for UMCP students and faculty, nominal fee for staff and general public
When: March 29-30, 2008
Where: CSI
Time: 8am-5pm
More: The final conference schedule is posted at www.postgresqlconference.org/talks

Join us for two days of talks and tutorials! PostgreSQL Conference East is a community-organized conference dedicated to the world’s most advanced open source relational database system. We have an exciting lineup of core contributors, application developers, academics, and enthusiasts ready to teach, share, and entertain. Experts will be covering topics such as these:
• Using PostgreSQL in Web 2.0 applications
• Database replication and monitoring
• Server internals
• Managing large datasets
• Leveraging unique features of PostgreSQL
• Performance benchmarking
• Best practices for running and developing for PostgreSQL
• and many more!
Come meet the movers and shakers of the PostgreSQL community and make contacts at companies such as Sun Microsystems, EnterpriseDB, Command Prompt, Afilias, Continuent, TruViso, xTuple, and Open Technology Group.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows.