Re: Opportunity to have an article in the Linux - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

I'm not familiar with that magazine, but perhaps a quick Q&A regarding
the 7.3 release would be appropriate. I'm willing to do it if you want
to pass them my email address.

Robert Treat

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:21, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Have just been emailing with Nick Veitch of the "Linux Format" Magazine,
> pointing out that they left PostgreSQL out of the "Server Software"
> options for voting upon for their "Linux Format Awards".
>
> Nick has suggested that they could redress this by doing something about
> PostgreSQL in an upcoming article.  i.e. an article, etc.
>
> Does this sound like a good idea, and if so do we have someone willing
> to be in charge of getting it done?
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Linux Format Awards
> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:15:18 +0000
> From: Nick Veitch <nick.veitch@futurenet.co.uk>
> Organization: Future Publishing
> To: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
> References: <3DEE20F3.7030300@postgresql.org>
> <3DEE24BB.7040809@futurenet.co.uk> <3DEE28EC.1030404@postgresql.org>
>
> Justin Clift wrote:
>
>  > Nick Veitch wrote:
>  > <snip>
>  >
>  >> The shortlists in all the categories were made on nominations
>  >> received. Hardly anyone nominated PostgreSQL( in fact, I'm not sure
>  >> if anyone did) so it didn't make it to the list.
>  >
>  >
>  > Wow....
>  >
>  > That's really surprising and disappointing and we have a very large
>  > and active community.
>  >
>  > Where do we sign up to become of when you're looking for nominations?
>  >
>  > :-)
>  >
>  > Regards and best wishes,
>  >
>  > Justin Clift
>  >
> To be fair most people seemed to be thinking of Apache, Samba etc. MySQL
> didn't get many nominations either, but enough to make it worth
> including. Judging by the nominations, I think <snip> is going to win.
> There was a piece in the magazine, and all the nominations were
> generated through the website, so you should really check that out. I
> was quite surprised myself!
>
> Perhaps to redress the balance we should do something about PostgreSQL
> in an upcoming issue?
> Perhaps an interview covering where development is headed? Or maybe
> someone would like to contribute a practical piece on good database
> design or whatever? I'm open to suggestions.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Nick Veitch
> Editor,
> Linux Format
> The UK's best selling Linux magazine
> www.linuxformat.co.uk
>
>
>
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