Even here in India, we have gone down the Meetup.com route. Again the costs are not that big a problem. We have also purchased some domains just in case (for example pgday.in) and renew them. But every PUG should get an "official" email from postgresql.org (india-pug@postgresql.org or in-pug@postgresql.org or something).
Also, having a generic template for hosting a local pgconf or a local pgday which can be picked up and localized by global PUGs should be useful IMO. So considering above points, maybe local PUGs can get a starter kit (including some setup dollars) kinda support if possible.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: > >> So the question becomes: if what new PUGs need for infrastructure is not >> new mailing lists, then what do they need? > > Have "PUG" be a new type of organization in the website database. Users > (community accounts) can be marked admin of PUGs. > > Have "PUG events" be a new type of event in the website database. > Admins of PUGs can post new PUG events [, without requiring moderation.] >
Being new objects, could we define a little what we are expecting from a PUG?
> Show a box of the upcoming two or three PUG events somewhere in the front > page of www.postgresql.org (maybe "Local events this week"); also have a > link that opens a page listing all events in the next 30 days. Have a > way to list all events of any individual PUG. Maybe steal space from > "Latest News" for this.