Thread: The Italian PostgreSQL Users Group is finally a non profit organisation

Ciao,

   I am really proud to announce that last Saturday, 17 november 2007,
the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group has been founded by twelve volunteers
and that today the non-profit organisation has been officially registered.

   As far as I know, this is the second non-profit organisation entirely
dedicated to PostgreSQL ever to be founded in Europe - after the great
French one (I might be wrong though, in that case please correct me).

   As the statute of the association says, the main aim of IT-PUG is the
social promotion of the PostgreSQL RDBMS in Italy, through the
organisation of projects, events, conferences, courses and initiative
oriented towards:

    * community (users and developers)
    * business companies
    * public organisations
    * schools and universities

   The non profit organisation is based on principles such as freedom,
democracy and volunteering, and the participation is open to every
Italian citizen or resident (the association is everyone's). The statute
has been collaboratively written by all the founders of the association.

   This process has taken a few months and has been the natural produce
of PGDay. Most of the founders indeed took part in the organisation of
the biggest gathering of the PostgreSQL community ever to be held in
Europe (so far). ;-)

   Although IT-PUG is still in its startup phase, users can find some
information (including the statute - in Italian) on the website:
www.itpug.org . Hopefully soon IT-PUG will be ready to accept
subscriptions online as well.

Ciao,
Gabriele

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Current Location: Prato, Tuscany, Italy
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Gabriele Bartolini a écrit :
>   I am really proud to announce that last Saturday, 17 november 2007,
> the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group has been founded by twelve volunteers
> and that today the non-profit organisation has been officially registered.
>

Congrats :)

>   As far as I know, this is the second non-profit organisation entirely
> dedicated to PostgreSQL ever to be founded in Europe - after the great
> French one (I might be wrong though, in that case please correct me).
>

The french organization is a non-profit one entirely dedicated to
PostgreSQL. It seems to me it was the first. Anyways, congrats. You've
done a terrific job (pgDay event, and now a non-profit organization...
nothing will stop you :) ).

> [...]
>   This process has taken a few months and has been the natural produce
> of PGDay. Most of the founders indeed took part in the organisation of
> the biggest gathering of the PostgreSQL community ever to be held in
> Europe (so far). ;-)
>

+1

>   Although IT-PUG is still in its startup phase, users can find some
> information (including the statute - in Italian) on the website:
> www.itpug.org . Hopefully soon IT-PUG will be ready to accept
> subscriptions online as well.
>

I would have some questions to ask. For example, the purpose of the
organization is to prepare "events, conferences, courses"... so this is
mainly advocacy stuff ? or do you also plan to contribute on
translations, coding, etc. ? On the translation side, I know that
Giuseppe Sacco is doing a really great work (100% done for 1.8). But I
don't see any translation of pginstaller (PostgreSQL Windows Installer),
and the PostgreSQL translation is at most at 60%. Do you think your
organization can work on some of these ? this is also kind of advocacy
work :) And what about the manual ? Last question, do you know italian
people coding on a PostgreSQL project ?

Whooo, that's really a lot of questions, sorry about that :) with your
answers, I'll probably write a small paper for postgresqlfr.org. Thanks :)


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Guillaume.
 http://www.postgresqlfr.org
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Ciao Guillaume,

> I would have some questions to ask. For example, the purpose of the
> organization is to prepare "events, conferences, courses"... so this is
> mainly advocacy stuff ? or do you also plan to contribute on
> translations, coding, etc. ? On the translation side, I know that
> Giuseppe Sacco is doing a really great work (100% done for 1.8). But I
> don't see any translation of pginstaller (PostgreSQL Windows Installer),
> and the PostgreSQL translation is at most at 60%. Do you think your
> organization can work on some of these ? this is also kind of advocacy
> work :) And what about the manual ? Last question, do you know italian
> people coding on a PostgreSQL project ?
>
Yep. I think I mentioned the word 'projects' too, which was a short-term
including several things:

1) PostgreSQL core code
2) PostgreSQL related applications
3) Localisation (we know lots of people help translating PostgreSQL
parts, but a unified task force would be much better - I would love for
instance to get in touch with Giuseppe and ask him to join the
association). A localisation task force, with the same members
contributing for the projects will be still responsibile for that
project, could help us reach uniformity and standard rules /
methodologies. Also, at the moment, we do not have an Italian PostgreSQL
manual and we already started up something during PGDay.

As I said, the association is everyone's. Everyone can make proposals
and participate. The current board of directors is working hard to give
the directions, and members to help starting them up. Personally I hope
that other people, in a year or so, will be able to take my place and
continue to help the association reach its goals. :)
> Whooo, that's really a lot of questions, sorry about that :) with your
> answers, I'll probably write a small paper for postgresqlfr.org. Thanks :)
>
Thank you.

Ciao,
Gabriele

--
Gabriele Bartolini: Open source programmer and data architect
Current Location: Prato, Tuscany, Italy
gabriele.bartolini@gmail.com | www.gabrielebartolini.it
"If I had been born ugly, you would never have heard of Pelé", George Best
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gbartolini