Sponsoring the community

Michael is joined by Claire Giordano, Head of Postgres Open Source Community Initiatives at Microsoft, to discuss several ways to contribute to the Postgres community — from core contributions, to extensions, to events, and (of course) podcasts.

Here are some links to things they mentioned:
• What’s new with Postgres at Microsoft (blog post by Claire) techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-…
• Citus github.com/citusdata/citus
• Fibonacci Spirals and 21 Ways to Contribute to Postgres Beyond Code (talk by Claire) archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/postgre…
• How to contribute to PostgreSQL or, 50 Ways To Love Your Project (talk slides by Josh Berkus) berkus.org/pdf_presos/50_ways.pdf
• pgconf dot dev 2024.pgconf.dev
• POSETTE: An Event for Postgres citusdata.com/posette
• About Talk Selection for POSETTE citusdata.com/blog/2024/04/22/about-talk-selec…
• Claire’s video about how to say Postgres, PostgreSQL, Citus, and a few questionably named Microsoft things x.com/clairegiordano/status/1503784151614320640
• Citus goes fully open source citusdata.com/blog/2024/04/22/about-talk-selec…
• Contributor Profiles postgresql.org/community/contributors
• Mastodon post by Álvaro Herrera (of EDB) lile.cl/@alvherre/112444579030481334
• Talking Postgres podcast (formerly called Path To Citus Con): talkingpostgres.com

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Postgres FM is produced by:
• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard (pgmustard.com)
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai (postgres.ai)

With special thanks to:
• Jessie Draws (jessiedraws.com) for the elephant artwork