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On pgsql-general, Doug Hunley mentioned he’d created a twitter account for pgsql-announce! Way cool.

I’d written during last PgCon about Postgres and Twitter, and I figured it was time for a new list of Postgres-related people who I follow! Especially since a few people commented that Twitter was a waste of time last year 😉

If you’re on twitter (or identi.ca), and I missed you — please comment below!

Here we go (in no particular order):

• Selena Deckelmann (me!)
• Gabrielle Roth, member of PDXPUG, main force behind Code-N-Splode
• Mark Wong, performance expert, leading the Portland PostgreSQL Performance Pad and associated projects to bring regular performance testing back to PostgreSQL
• Francisco Figueiredo Jr., developer maintainer of Npgsql, speaker, member of PostgreSQL.Br
• Magnus Hagander President of Pg.EU – the European Union non-profit organization dedicated to PostgreSQL and supporting user groups in the region
• Josh Berkus, pgsql-advocacy leader, Member of the PostgreSQL core team
• Jean-Paul Argudo, leader/member of PostgreSQL.Fr and Treasurer of Pg.EU
• Hubert Lubaczewski , author of a great technical blog about PostgreSQL http://www.depesz.com/
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, leader of the Moscow PostgreSQL Users Group, and consultant in Russia
• Kristin Tufte, Postgres user, member of PDXPUG and assistant professor at Portland State University
• Satoshi Nagayasu, member of the Japanese PostgreSQL Users Group, and spearheading meetups in Tokoyo
• Brenda Wallace, moble gadget fetishist, Drupalista and Wellington, NZ PostgreSQL User Group wrangler
• Isis Borges, Postgres enthusiast, works in the fashion industry in Puerto Alegre, Brazil
• Dan Langille, DBA and organizer behind PgCon
• Michael Brewer, DBA and board member of the United States PostgreSQL Association
• Joshua Drake, business owner, board member of the United States PostgreSQL Association
• Fábio Telles Rodriguez, active member of the PostgreSQL.Br (Brazil) and PgDay Brazil organizer. If you speak Portuguese, you can check out Planet Postgres Br here – http://planeta.postgresql.org.br/
• Fernando Ike, member of PostgreSQL.Br
• Ed Borasky, PhD, analytics nerd, PDXPUG member
• Robert Treat, author of PHP and PostgreSQL book, speaker, on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association
• David Wheeler, contributed citext most recently to PostgreSQL, consultant, maintainer of Bricolage, formerly of I Want Sandy
• Greg Sabino Mullane, author of Bucardo and check_postgres.pl, maintainer of DBD::Pg, recently contributed patches to psql, on the board of the United States PostgreSQL Association, my boss 🙂
• Christophe, volunteer at OSCON for PostgreSQL booth, DBA
• Aaron Thul, DBA, developer, speaker on PostgreSQL on Drugs 🙂
• David Fetter, DBA, maintainer of the PostgreSQL Weekly News
• Elein Mustain, DBA, speaker, maintainer of http://varlena.com
• Chris May, DBA, member of PDXPUG
• Jason Kirtland, developer, maintainer of SQLAlchemy, Pythonista
• Josh Tolley, developer, DBA, statistics nerd, author of PL/LOLCODE and pgsnmpd
• Erik Jones, Portland resident, Pythonista, made a cool python-based partitioning tool (pgpartitioner)
• Nicholas Kreidberg, Nevada resident, PostgreSQL user
• Gavin Roy, DBA, Business dude, Myyearbook.com, speaker, on the board of of United States PostgreSQL Association
• Chris Browne, Slony maintainer
• Douglas Hunley, creator of pgsql_announce on twitter 🙂
• Larry Rosenman, PostgreSQL supporter, help with DNS for PostgreSQL.org, contributor (some of the syslog* stuff in version 7.0)

Organizations:

• Planet Postgres, posts links to all Planet PostgreSQL blog links
• PDXPUG, Portland, OR PostgreSQL Users Group
• pgsql-announce, Douglas Hunley’s mirror!