On 24/02/2020 21:50, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 24 Feb 2020, at 18:27, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/02/2020 16:46, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> On 24 Feb 2020, at 16:28, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads@pgug.de> wrote:
>>>> On 24/02/2020 15:01, Vik Fearing wrote:
>>>>> On 24/02/2020 14:22, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>>> Yes. Please ignore this project, I merely raised the point because
>>>> I stumbled over this discussion again. The following is the
>>>> interesting part:
>>>>
>>>>>> This raises the question if blogs can be non-personal, but project
>>>>>> related, or company related. Any of the related PostgreSQL projects
>>>>>> could post updates, without using personal accounts for this.
>>>>> The case I'm interested in, is allowing conferences to post as
>>>>> themselves and not as any particular organizer.
>>>> Indeed. Conference announcements, or things like new major
>>>> upgrades of a tool like pgAdmin ect. Would be nice to have that
>>>> coming from the project, not from a specific person.
>>> What is the main usecase for anonymized postings?
>> It's not anonymous, it's coming from the conference.
> Correct, it's not anonymous but it's anonymized.
>
> Since we already have News and Events on the website, and pgsql-announce@,
> don't we run the risk of creating an echo chamber if we open up for project
> news on Planet as well? I realize that the discussion here is larger than just
> project announcements, but there is a risk IMO.
All the conference news are already posted there. The proposed change
is that they are posted under a conference account, not under a personal
account.
Many projects already post on Planet, but using personal accounts. So
that will not change the echo chamber either.
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project
