Background: PR and Marketing
For decades I have been working as PR/Marketing Manager for Addison-Wesley and O’Reilly. During the last two decades, I have been working with various Open Source Communities including UNIX, Linux, Perl, Python, PHP etc. As part of my work at O’Reilly, I attended around 25 conferences a year throughout Europe. These conferences included: fosdem, Europython, YAPC, Codemotion, Codebits, PHP NW, PHP London, OpenTech, All your Base, JAX London, TechMesh, OggCamp, Craft, ORedev, Guadec, DebConf, MongoDB Days etc.
For the last few months I have been working as community manager for 2ndQuadrant and have organized my first meetup in London - http://www.meetup.com/London-PostgreSQL-Meetup-Group/.
In my spare time, I maintain my blog www.josetteorama.com where you can find interviews, and anything related to the techie world. I also write for Linux Voice, mainly reporting on the conferences I have attended.
What can I bring to the PostgreSQL community? A wider audience: with my many contacts within the different open source communities, I will broaden the PostgreSQL community as we well know that PostgreSQL is widely used by other groups of developers, coders etc. With my PR/Marketing background, I hope I can get the media etc. interested in PostgreSQL as well as the various Open Source communities that I have been working with such as Python, Perl, etc.
To resume, I feel that coming from the world of technical publishing, with many years of experience working in the Open source community I could give fresh impetus to the mission for PostgreSQL in Europe. The European PostgreSQL community has achieved a huge amount over the past few years and with fresh ideas from someone only recently involved in PostgreSQL new ideas can only help the community to flourish and continue its mission to be the default choice of database for every organisation.