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FOSDEM would not be FOSDEM without waffles... What if we coud use Postgres to make waffles ?

During this talk we will use the excuse of FOSDEM and Brussels to create an extension that will look for the best waffle recipe and use Postgres to display it. During this journey, on top of making delicious waffles, we will : - understand what an extension is - find the steps needed to create an extension - make this work all together - install our extension - display the best Waffle recipe

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!