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A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation?

Event: PGConf Europe 2026

Location: Valencia

Room: Audit 3B

Dates: October 20, 2026 – October 23, 2026

Presentation: October 23, 2026 , 09:00

Link: On event website

Speakers: Floor Drees, Alastair Turner

There are so many projects around Postgres which we rely on to extend functionality of the database engine, connect applications to the database, or simplify management and operations.

The breadth of community around these projects may well not be as broad as that around the core Postgres project. When careers move on, company priorities shift and project teams scale to zero, how do we best manage succession and continuity? What programs should Postgres vendors and major users have in place to support maintainers? Could an umbrella organisation managing a range of extension and utility projects reduce some of these risks for users?

Join us for an open discussion of the recent activity around developing the health of the ecosystem and what could be done to improve it further.

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A Postgres Ecosystem Foundation?

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Floor Drees

Floor Drees

Floor Drees is a Principal Program Manager at EDB, working with and in the open source community. She’s a member of the Contributor Committee, PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee, PostgreSQL Diversity Committee, and a PGDay Lowlands organizer. Floor is also a Co-chair for DevOpsDays.

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Alastair Turner

Alastair Turner

Since 1995, Alastair has administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. His particular area of interest is integration between open source software, how open source communities can work together and what they can learn from each other.

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