Re: [pgsql-www] Milwaukee User Group - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Great!  You can call it chic_east_side_PUG ;)

Cheers,
David (born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, living in Oakland, California).
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:05:29PM -0600, John Graber wrote:
> Thanks, Alvaro.
>
> Just for clarity's sake -- the name I'm hoping for is BrewPUB, with a B.
>
> MKEPUG is definitely straight out for us, as it's in use by The Milwaukee
> PHP User Group.
>
> BrewPUG is a possibility, but I think it may lead to confusion with the
> well establish PHP group in town with a few hundred members.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>wrote:
>
> > John Graber escribió:
> >
> > > So, I looked into "PUG" in Milwaukee.  We have a local user group for PHP
> > > of 319 members, created in 2009, that uses "PUG".
> > >
> > > I absolutely understand why "PUG" would be preferable to some folks.  And
> > > this being community driven, I will *_absolutely_* go with it if that's
> > the
> > > consensus, now worries.  But as for myself, I'd really like to
> > > differentiate my merry band from other user groups in Milwaukee if
> > > possible.  :)
> > >
> > > Is anyone else willing to share some feedback?  Thanks!
> >
> > As far as postgresql.org mailing lists are concerned, we typically
> > assign names that have "PUG" somewhere supposedly because it's an
> > acronym for "Postgres User Group".  We try to go for more-or-less formal
> > names using the city name and/or state two-letter code (for PUGs in the
> > USA); in the last few years this has been followed more or less
> > consistently, at least for US cities/states.  We have always made
> > exceptions, so I don't necessarily oppose to a name such as "BrewPUG"
> > but I'd need some other American to confirm that this name actually
> > makes sense, and somebody from some other part of the world that this
> > isn't too insane.
> >
> > In this list
> > http://www.postgresql.org/list/group/6/
> > you can see the PUG name by hovering over each link.
> >
> > BrewPUG doesn't sound so bad to me; at least it's not as bad as having
> > given the "spug" name to a group that didn't ever get off the ground.
> >
> > --
> > Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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