It is only Wednesday and it sure has been an exciting week for me. I am going to be speaking at two great Tech events about PostgreSQL. My friends over at e-Mol are lining up eager customers for their amazing product. Lastly, I just had an interview with a really great company that went very well.
I have been evangelizing about PostgreSQL every chance I have for years. Mostly I spend my energy evangelizing locally, local LUG or MUG meetings and of course Penguicon. From time to time I get the wonderful opportunity to speak about PostgreSQL at a tech event more than a simple car drive away. I recently found out that I am traveling and speaking at TWO great Tech events! First I will be speaking at PGCon 2008 coming this May 22-23 at University of Ottawa. Next I will be flying the other side of the continent and presenting at OSCON 2008 happening July 21-25 in Portland Oregon. It will be my first time to a PostgreSQL only event and I am looking forward to learning lots from the other people there. I will be presenting at OSCON for my second time and there too I will be sucking up information and knowledge like a sponge.
At both events my presentation will be “This is your PostgreSQL on drugs”.
PostgreSQL is known to be a powerful open source relational database with many uses. One such use is warehousing EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) from oncology practices across the country. PostgreSQL, Perl, Apache, Ubuntu Linux and OpenBSD are all used for their strengths to deliver information to pharmaceutical companies to see what their drugs are doing for individuals in real world scenarios. Do you have a large amount of data that needs to be searchable, aggregated and extremely secure at the same time? See many of the creative solutions that have been deployed to help facilitate how we put PostgreSQL to the task of drugs.
The talk is mainly about what my genius friend Brian has been building, with a bit of help from yours truly, for the last year: a simple way to manage and data mine medical records for HUGE numbers of people. The end goal is to make healthcare better for everyone and the best part is that this week he has two large customers clamoring to work with him!
If all that was not enough to make excited I just finished an interview that went very well. I have to say that I am not a huge fan of formal interviews. You know the ones, where they ask you to explain a time when you worked in a group and there was a conflict and you helped resolve it. My interview today was with people high up but was more of a conversation. They asked some questions, we talked about some things and then I asked some questions. I feel it went well and I think I will be seeing them again the next round of speaking with the company.
With all that has been going well I think it is time to run out and buy a lotto ticket.