Inside the Community - Ingres style….
Today is day one at the Ingres Engineering Summit being held in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) with a cross section of folks from across the Ingres engineering, support/ service, Product Management teams as well as a number of contributors from the Ingres open source community. Amazing the number of people here and the tenure they have around Ingres - I think the winner from the community has 24 years using Ingres ( he started using Ingres on VAX - wow!!) . We also have a number of newbies to Ingres from various universities and it’s great to have them here as well.
The agenda is loaded with pretty cool topics that range from demos from DMSolutions (GIS) and Ingres CAFE, application development using Ingres CAFE and OpenROAD, Google Summer of code work, Datallegro contributions, open sessions with Ingres Janitor’s Project just to name a few. Lots of good debate on code repositories and various new ideas to get engaged with. I was talking with one of partners here at the Summit - Karl from Datallegro and he is speaking later and has several hundred submissions in queue.. Great job Karl. Great seeing the blog from Datallegro on line as well.
Later this week we have a codefest planned, lots of after hours activities and yes you can’t go to Punta Cana with out some team building event - rumor is it is building a sand castle and best design wins not sure what …. That ought to be loads of fun with a bunch of really technical dbms guys. Any hardware design guys in the house????
/deb woods
Tags: ingres, Ingres Engineering Summit, OpenROAD