After some long trip (11 hours) I finally arrived to Ottawa. Nice city (It was my first time in it)! Although it was calm 'cause of the holliday on Monday. I met some known people in the community; some of them I already had a chance to meet when they were in Brazil. The conference was run just one block from hotel (Residence) and the happy hour (Royal Oak) was just 2 blocks away. There was not so cold (it was spring); the sun was shiny almost all of the days I was there.

The conference was cool! I like the hackers-to-hackers conference because you have the opportunity to discuss internal aspects with the developers and, of course, ask for your favorite feature. ;) I attended to a lot of interesting talks (replication, benchmarks, unit tests, GIS were some of the most popular topics) and "collected" a lot of interesting tools. It was my first time in PGCon and I had the responsability to talk to some people interested in the subject (similarity queries) -- see the video. It was a good time to collect some ideas (that was added to my TODO) and show what I'm developing in my master thesis. I had a translator role in the Luis talk (it was my first time) but besides some GIS terms I had no idea, it was fine. ;)

After the conference, I had a one-day-tourist-trip. I visited some tourist points (Parliament, Canal, Canadian War Museum, Monuments, and so on). I took some pics and add them to my album.

The trip back was better than the departure one (because I had some space to strech my legs :-). I came back with a lot of ideas (I already started some tools to aid DBAs) and some of those ideas were to my TODO.