Schedule - PGConf.dev 2026

Onboarding New Community Members to PostgreSQL

Level: Intermediate

Getting involved in the PostgreSQL community can be difficult; how can we make it easier? New community members often ask the same questions: Where do I start? How do I connect? How can I contribute?

In this session, we'd like to discuss:

1. How do most people first interact with the PostgreSQL community (e.g. in person, mailing list, Slack, Discord, etc.)? What factors affect whether they have a good experience or a poor one, and what should be trying to do improve the experience that newcomers have on average?
2. What resources already exist to help onboard new community members, and what needs to be created or updated? Importantly, we need resources for people who wish to be involved in different ways: attending user groups or conferences, organizing them, reporting bugs, as a developer, etc.
3. How do we promote the resources that already exist, or new ones that get created, so that as many people as possible discover them?
4. What can we do to make sure that our resources as broadly accessible as possible, so that our community can welcome people of diverse backgrounds?

The goal of the session is to identify opportunities for improvement and people who would be interested in helping to close those gaps.

Speaker

Cornelia Biacsics
Hari Kiran
Robert Haas