Re: Need for "Getting Started" Tutorial - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

I share the same feeling. One of the misconceptions with PostgreSQL is
that it is a very hard-to-install product, not user-friendly,
especially for potential new users such as students. That is totally
wrong and it is something that we must solve as community.

During the next PGDay we will try and open PostgreSQL to these users
and I believe such a tutorial is something that goes into the same
direction.

Tonight, Federico is going to start the Road To PGDay initiative in
Prato (we invite other members all over the world to dedicate one
event to PG promotion) and we have 25 subscribers! It's a great
result, if you think that it is an after-dinner event - even though it
is free.

We could grab potential new users that are willing to share their
'install' experience with the rest of the world. What do you think
guys?

Ciao,
Gabriele

2007/5/2, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>:
> FYI, I left ~250 copies of a 2 page PostgreSQL brochure at local LUG's
> booth at the IT360 show today.  <http://www.it360.ca/> (This used to
> be the show known as RealWorldLinux.)
>
> I'll find out tomorrow how many copies survived, or if they went
> fast...
>
> I had several useful PostgreSQL conversations, including one which
> suggested that there may be another would-be "Pervasive" out there,
> that is, a company that would rather deploy PostgreSQL as their next
> product version rather than have to substantially rewrite their
> product to satisfy modern requirements.  Don't know if that'll go
> anywhere; it will need some later followup.
>
> The *other* thing needing followup was that someone observed that they
> had some problems getting PostgreSQL to work properly, based on some
> of the "default" documentation.  This probably represents the fact
> that different flavours of Linux behave a little bit differently, and
> when people are new to Unix, in general, they may not have
> sufficiently fine-tuned problem-solving skills to get past this "speed
> bump."
>
> Seems to me that there is a need for a "getting started with
> PostgreSQL on {flavours of Linux}" sort of tutorial.
>
> Those of us that build our own installs from scratch are probably
> incompetent to prepare this; we are *way* too knowledgeable to even
> notice the little speed-bumps that others are getting stuck on.
>
> This may well be a "recognize your Linux flavour" talk that applies to
> various services; that's fine...
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