I create, run and participate in a lot of technical conferences. My focus is on open source, and in particular PostgreSQL. I write frequently about the conferences I attend, and try to categorize that stuff under “conference“. Conferences I've started:
* Postgres Open: a conference focusing on the business of PostgreSQL and disruption of the database industry
* Open Source Bridge: My first blog post about Open Source Bridge.
* PostgreSQL Conference: first of three conferences I organized before ending my involvement with the series. Ignite:

• Ignite was fun, some links: after my first ignite talk about surveys. Ugh – not my best talk!
• How to kill 4 chickens in 3 years: My second ignite talk. It was pretty sweet

• How to unrig an election: My third Ignite talk about how a group of people unrigged an election in Ondo State, Nigeria Giving Talks:

• Training Lessions Learned: Code, Dojo, Whiteboards, Interactivity

• Giving Good Talks presentation

• Responding to offensive presentations at conferences: More aimed toward conference organizers and participants Making Conferences:

• Collaboration = conflict + people Women's involvement (coding, conferences, speaking):

• To Sir, With Love: essay about women in tech that I wrote for O'Reilly

• Women who code: where are they?
• What's changed? Portland as an example of increasing women's participation
• What works? Getting more women involved in open source
• Unlocking the clubhouse: cultural resistance and learning communities
• Ada Lovelace Day: Professor Leah Buechley: I met Leah on a trip to Boston for Libre Planet. She's awesome.
• A women-focused users group: the very, very beginning
• Participation in open source: any worse than the rest of the industry?
• It's not just Noirin: A brief essay in response to an assault that occurred at a technical conference.

• Getting ready for OSCON: code of conduct and cultural change Portland and conferences

• This year (2011) is so nuts for having conferences in Portland, OR

• Event Organizers: Spaces to have tech events or conferences in Portland
• This down needs…: Beginning of three essays on the nature of tech community, growth in our industry and what we should really be working on to make Portland an awesome place for startups.
• Space and time to help our neighbors: a short essay in response to a negative assessment of how the Portland tech community functions.

• We need vision and collaboration: a short essay on the types of collaboration events we need in Portland Conferences and events I've helped organize:

• Open SQL Camp

• 2010 Retrospective: Mention of IgniteGov (the first ever!)
• October is a month of many conferences: Mention of WhereCampPDX
• My Other Things: Mention of BarCampPortland I've also been on the organizing committees for: OSCON Data 2011, MySQL Users Conference 2011, PgCon 2011, PgCon 2010.