Floor Drees articles - 66 total
My PGConf EU 2025 experience
Last week marked the 2025 edition of PGConf EU. I had many roles, and I'm excited to let you know...
How to work with other Postgres people (panel on neurodiversity)
At PGConf EU last week I was part of a panel on mental health and neurodiversity in the open source...
They grow up so fast: donating your open source project to a foundation (or: the CloudNativePG story)
The first commit to the CloudNativePG project was made in February 2020. Just two years later, EDB...
Inclusive and Accessible Postgres Events with the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower
October 21, Karen Jex (Crunchy Data / Snowflake) and I talked about accessibility and the Hidden...
How to contribute to PostgreSQL beyond code
Understanding a project's ecosystem is the main barrier to entry. I've had community roles for...
Celebrating all contributions to the PostgreSQL project
Every contribution to the PostgreSQL project counts, big and small, the glamorous and the tedious....
Building a karaoke recommendation system with PostgreSQL
Boriss Mejías and I presented a lightning talk at FOSDEM PGDay, last Friday. Below is the script,...
Mastodon & the PostgreSQL community
In the Postgres community the adoption of Mastodon has been significant. Curious whether Mastodon...
Summarizing Community over Code EU 2024
I helped organize Community over Code EU, June 3-5, in Bratislava, Slovakia. On the actual conference...
That's a nice Postgres you have there, would be a shame if you were to lose it…
To my delight the PgDay Paris 2024 organizers decided to pick my lighting talk despite the ominous...
What the flip is DevEx - live panel
"If your team has developers, you have a Developer Experience." Whether or not that experience is...
pgDay Paris: no notes!
Or... yes notes, but not on the event itself. I learned a LOT about how the Postgres project is...
Build license management into your pipelines
Below is more or less my FOSS Backstage (lightning) talk, titled "Build license management into your...
My very personal summary of Configmanagement Camp
Configmanagement Camp (CfgMgmtCamp for short, or YAML Camp), takes place after FOSDEM unless it’s...
A not so short summary of FOSDEM
I love FOSDEM. And I loved being back in-person again this year, at the ULB in Brussels, together...
What I learned about leading a healthy project from speaking to 50+ maintainers
At FOSDEM this year I gave a talk about contributing.today, a live streamed fireside chat on anything...
Software Supply Chain and Data Infrastructure Security - 5 lessons from AllDayDevOps 2022
Why is it that we’re seeing the term “Software Supply Chain Security” so frequently? The usage of...
Big Data Europe 2022 - my summary
November 23-24, Big Data Conference Europe took place, all virtual, 2000+ attendees, 40+ talks, and 4...
DevRelCon 2022 - a very biased review
It’s only been a few days since I returned home from DevRelCon in Prague. The last time I attended...
Best of GitHub Universe 2022 - or so I opine
November 9-10, GitHub Universe took place, GitHub’s annual product announcements filled flagship...
Choose Your Own Adventure: Open source, proprietary software, self-hosted or managed
We’re among friends here, so I think I can say this: proprietary software is expensive, static,...
Developer Advocates need to be better event citizens
This post is the result of frustration built up over the recent years, around how some Developer...
Howto: The Technical Panel
You’ve been asked to join a panel at a technical event. Great news: panels are fun! It might not seem...
June contributing.today: on supporting open source projects with monies
I try to make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background, read...
May contributing.today: on technical documentation, docs tools and markup languages 📖
I try to make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background, read...
April contributing.today: on Open Source Databases
I’ll try and make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background,...
What even is an Open Source Program Office - with Spotify, Aiven & Wipro
Suzanne Daniels, Nick Trogh and I just rebooted our contributing.today meetup. The three of us met...
Feedback and hiring a diverse team, at the DevOps Eindhoven meetup
In anticipation of the October Devopsdays Eindhoven, we thought we should, well, meet up. Who are we?...
Community health metrics in Grafana w/ Orbit data source
In a previous post I wrote how my colleague Daniel Gonzales Lopes and I worked out how to get GitHub...
What 3rd party events are interesting for my DevRel organisation?
What's when you're tasked to create a list of 3rd party events you want (your DevRel organization) to...