Re: PostgreSQL.Org (was: PostgreSQL Conference Fal l 2007) - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
> So you'd be happy for *anyone* to organise an event and advertise it as
> an official PGDG event?

I think my point was rather that "official" events do not, AFAICT,
exist.  There's nobody to make them official.  (This is very similar,
for instance, to "compliance" with RFCs from the IETF: there are no
protocol police, and there's nobody to certify that anyone "complies"
with this or that IETF document.)

Consider that there are already companies claiming to do training in
PostgreSQL who appear to be recommending things that I think are in
fact bad ideas.  Are they illegitimate?  Hard to know, and even
harder to do anything about.

A

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