Building a PostgreSQL Open Source Community in China: From Local Users to Global Collaboration
- Time
- 2026-08-09 13:45 ~ 14:15
- Speaker
- Grant Zhou
- Room
- RB101
- Co-write
- https://hackmd.io/B1rrxExLGe
Abstract
This talk shares practical experiences from building a PostgreSQL open source community in China and connecting local users with the global PostgreSQL ecosystem.
It will cover community meetups, bilingual content, PostgreSQL education, university collaboration, documentation translation, and downstream open source projects such as IvorySQL and SynchDB. The talk will also discuss how real production pain points can be collected, anonymized, and turned into reproducible technical cases for community discussion and improvement.
The session is intended for PostgreSQL users, open source developers, educators, and community organizers. Audience members will learn practical ways to grow a local open source database community, support cross-language collaboration, and build bridges between regional communities and global upstream projects.
Speaker
Grant Zhou
Grant Zhou is an open source database community organizer and PostgreSQL ecosystem contributor based in Metro Vancouver, Canada. He supports Highgo in open source community and ecosystem operations, organizes HOW (ivorysql.io), contributes to PGCONF.Asia, and serves as Secretary General of the China PostgreSQL Association.
He is involved in PostgreSQL-related open source projects such as IvorySQL and SynchDB, focusing on open source database adoption, Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration scenarios, documentation, education, and cross-region community collaboration.
中文简介：Grant Zhou 长期参与 PostgreSQL 与开源数据库社区建设，关注 Oracle 到 PostgreSQL 的迁移场景、数据库兼容性实践，以及亚洲社区与全球 PostgreSQL 生态之间的协作。