DuckCon at FOSDEM

We are going to hold a physical in-person DuckDB user group meeting the day before FOSDEM in Brussels on Feb 3rd 2023.

15:00 Welcome to DuckCon! – Setting up

15:10 Introductions

15:15 - 16:00 (40’ + 5’ Q&A)
State of the Duck (Hannes Mühleisen & Mark Raasveldt )
Hannes and Mark will talk about recent developments and new features of DuckDB - as well as future plans and goals.

16:00 - 16:35 (30’ + 5’ Q&A)
DuckDB Extensions: The Power of the Sun, in the Palm of My Hand (Pedro Holanda & Sam Ansmink)
DuckDB supports various data scanners (e.g., parquet, CSV, arrow, JSON) and (up to now) 543 scalar/aggregation functions. However, domain-specific tasks frequently require specialized scanners and functions. For example, to properly support Geo operations, one must implement intersect functions and be able to scan .shx Shapefiles. In this talk, we will give an overview of how flexible extensions are in DuckDB and demonstrate how users can quickly get started on their own by using our extension scaffolding.

16:35 - 17:10 (30’ + 5’ Q&A)
MotherDuck: What does it take to put DuckDB in the Cloud? (Boaz Leskes & Yves Le Maout)
DuckDB is our favorite in-process database for analytics, but what does it mean to be in-process, in the Cloud? In this talk, we will cover how a Cloud-based DuckDB backend can complement your on-laptop DuckDB experience (think collaboration, data reduction, persistence, fast S3 access, and more). We will talk about MotherDuck's architecture, the extensions to DuckDB we had to make, and plans for the future. Expect an engineering-oriented talk with ample opportunity for deep dives.

17:10 - 17:30 Lightning talks (3-4 talks 5-7’)

17:30 - 18:00 Food + Drinks