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At the 2009 UK IUA conference the UK IUA presented its Community
Service Award to Rick van der Lans, author of the SQL Guide to Ingres.

The Community Service Award is given to someone who has made a
noteworthy contribution to the Ingres Community. The Ingres Community
consists of all users of Ingres, OpenROAD, and any of the related
products and projects.

Nominations are now being accepted for this year's award. Please send
your nomination with a brief explanation of why you think your nominee
deserves the award, to award2010@iua.org.uk.

The winner will be chosen by jury from the nominees received by
Friday, May 21, 2010.

Roy

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UK Ingres User Association Conference 2010
8th June 2010, London www.iua.org.uk

Outlines or abstracts for presentations on Ingres, OpenROAD, open source,
or any other Ingres-related topics are welcome. The theme for this year's
event is "Open Source Innovation" so any papers relating to Ingres and Open
Source tools and products would be particularly welcome.

The UK IUA Committee invites anyone working with Ingres or OpenROAD, or
related technologies to submit ideas for papers to be presented at this
year's annual conference. The conference will take place on 8th June
2010 in Central London (venue to be confirmed). A sell-out crowd attended the high quality presentations at last
year's event, and with your assistance and contribution, we aim to make
this year's IUA Conference an even bigger success.

Outlines and abstracts can be submitted in any reasonable format (e.g.
Word, plain text, Powerpoint, PDF, etc.). Please submit your ideas for
papers via email to Ray Collins (ray.collins@iua.org.uk) by Monday, 12 April 2010 for evaluation by the conference paper selection committee.
Note that you need only send an outline or proposal at this stage. You
do not need to provide a complete presentation to be considered.

Notification of whether your paper has been selected or rejected will be sent by Friday 30 April 2010. Topics we are particularly interested in hearing about this year:

* VectorWise
* Hardware and software consolidation, and virtualization
* Applications developed with Open Source
* Migrations to Open Source
* Ingres Community Projects
* Open Source economics
* Management issues in Open Source
* Productivity Tools
* Security
* Improving Performance

If you have any questions regarding this year's 2010 Conference, the
committee members are happy to assist. Please send all questions and
queries to info@iua.org.uk.

Thank you to all who have supported the IUA by presenting at our previous
Meetings, Special Events and the Annual Conference in the past, and for
your continued interest and support of the UK IUA.

Roy

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At the IUA we're always keen to promote the Ingres family of products
and projects any way we can. Posterous is our latest experiment. We
plan to use this blog to keep our community informed about planning
for the 2010 UK IUA conference, the world's favorite Ingres event.

Roy

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Since July last year we've been holding an open source business breakfast meeting once a month. The events have been very interesting, educational, and fun. Despite that, we've decided to put the breakfasts on hold for a bit to allow us to focus on other activities. We'll share more about what we're working on soon.

I was recently listening to a FLOSS Weekly podcast (episode 100, congratulations!) interviewing Chris DiDona from Google. One of the items he spoke of that resonated with me was his/their practice of deciding who they wanted to reach and focusing on that audience even if it meant delaying or forgoing contact with others. DiBona explained that to him, it seemed Google was the place Computer Scientists go to practice Computer Science. Thus, though it would be nice to reach other people such as open source enthusiasts, their real desire was to reach computer scientist practitioners. The rate of innovative product development, focus on algorithms and performance, and more demonstrate that nurturing Computer Scientists is a key part of Google's success. Thus I found it very interesting to see the languages chosen by entrants in Google's AI challenge organized by the University of Waterloo. Read on the see the list.

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Yesterday Ray Fan published an article that shows IMA queries that allow you to see the list of functions available for different Ingres releases. I’ve now taken these queries an generated a list of functions for Ingres 9.2.0 with the added functions for 9.3.0 and 10.0.0 (a recentish build). I’ve not looked at earlier releases as the SQL did not work with my 9.1.0 installation. When I get the time I’ll update the page going back to 9.0.4, or you could do the same .

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About this time last year, I made time to sit down and blog about trends I was seeing in the job market pertaining to open source skills. This is an update after 1 year. What are the trends in the job industry pertaining to open source? Evidence indicates there are good jobs out there if you know where to look.

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