Floor Drees

This year, like many years before, I attended FOSDEM PGDay. Below are my semi-structured thoughts -...

At FOSDEM PGDay last week, Jonathan Gonzalez and I presented a lightning talk about how the...

Last weekend my good friend Jos van Schouten and I presented a session in the Community devroom at...

Last weekend I attended FOSDEM (and FOSDEM PGDay), but because I brought my 11-year old with me,...

Last week marked the 2025 edition of PGConf EU. I had many roles, and I'm excited to let you know...

At PGConf EU last week I was part of a panel on mental health and neurodiversity in the open source...

The first commit to the CloudNativePG project was made in February 2020. Just two years later, EDB...

October 21, Karen Jex (Crunchy Data / Snowflake) and I talked about accessibility and the Hidden...

Understanding a project's ecosystem is the main barrier to entry. I've had community roles for...

Every contribution to the PostgreSQL project counts, big and small, the glamorous and the tedious....

Boriss Mejías and I presented a lightning talk at FOSDEM PGDay, last Friday. Below is the script,...

In the Postgres community the adoption of Mastodon has been significant. Curious whether Mastodon...

I helped organize Community over Code EU, June 3-5, in Bratislava, Slovakia. On the actual conference...

To my delight the PgDay Paris 2024 organizers decided to pick my lighting talk despite the ominous...

"If your team has developers, you have a Developer Experience." Whether or not that experience is...

Or... yes notes, but not on the event itself. I learned a LOT about how the Postgres project is...

Below is more or less my FOSS Backstage (lightning) talk, titled "Build license management into your...

Configmanagement Camp (CfgMgmtCamp for short, or YAML Camp), takes place after FOSDEM unless it’s...

I love FOSDEM. And I loved being back in-person again this year, at the ULB in Brussels, together...

At FOSDEM this year I gave a talk about contributing.today, a live streamed fireside chat on anything...

Why is it that we’re seeing the term “Software Supply Chain Security” so frequently? The usage of...

November 23-24, Big Data Conference Europe took place, all virtual, 2000+ attendees, 40+ talks, and 4...

It’s only been a few days since I returned home from DevRelCon in Prague. The last time I attended...

November 9-10, GitHub Universe took place, GitHub’s annual product announcements filled flagship...

We’re among friends here, so I think I can say this: proprietary software is expensive, static,...

This post is the result of frustration built up over the recent years, around how some Developer...

You’ve been asked to join a panel at a technical event. Great news: panels are fun! It might not seem...

I try to make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background, read...

I try to make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background, read...

I’ll try and make a habit of writing summaries for our contributing.today meetups. For background,...