https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/e5b0360a-47a6-4711-91af-d9ad63a4c1d9 PostgreSQL is a great community. They are open-minded, friendly, agreeable and so on. You feel like helping them. The problem is you are shy and you look at community people as gods. On top of that you don't want to mess up with their work or bother them with obvious and silly (to them) questions! This conference talk is based on my own true story. I will tell you about how I submitted my very first patch to the community. After some background presentation about how the community works, I will try to answer the following questions: What can I do to help (and you'll see that even without coding you can do a lot!) ?, What's a contribution ?, What's a patch ? How can I create one?, And I hope that sooner or later you'll come and join the community and you'll feel so proud of yourselves! Speaker: Lætitia Avrot, Track: PostgreSQL, Room: H.1302 (Depage), When: Saturday 3 February 2018, 11:00–11:50 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2018 event page, Slides & links Talk on the FOSDEM PGDay website (may include slides), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “De-mystifying contributing to PostgreSQL” by Lætitia Avrot, FOSDEM 2018. Original recording: 2018/H.1302/de_mystifying_contributing_to_postgresql.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:36:24 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/e5b0360a-47a6-4711-91af-d9ad63a4c1d9 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.