Thread: PostgreSQL Magazine #01 is out !
Hi ! I'm very pleased to announce the release of the first issue of PostgreSQL Magazine. This issue #01 is brought to you thanks to the collective work of dozen of people. Writers, Editors, Reviewers. Kudos to them all ! Here's a quick view of the ToC : - PostgreSQL 9.1 : 10 awesome new features - NoSQL : The Key Value store everyone ignored - Interview : Stefan Kaltenbrunner - Opinion : Funding PostgreSQL Features - Waiting for 9.2 : Cascading Streaming Replication - Tips & Tricks : PostgreSQL in Mac OS X Lion The magazine is available online and on paper. You can either : * Read it Online: http://pgmag.org/01/read * Buy the Print Edition: http://pgmag.org/01/buy * or Download the PDF: http://pgmag.org/01/download The magazine is currently available only in "US Letter" format. An "A4" edition will be released in a few days. Finally, I would like to thank our benefactors… Fotolia.com has offered us a free subscription plan to access their stock photo database. We also received fundings from PostgreSQL Europe (PGEU) and Software in the Public Interest (SPI). Thanks a lot to them ! -- Damien Clochard PostgreSQL Magazine Editor in Chief PS : Soon we'll start preparing the next issue ! If you want to join us please subscribe to our mailing list : https://groups.google.com/group/pgmag/
Hello, PostgreSQL Magazine is now available in print at the lulu.com marketplace : http://pgmag.org/01/buy If you wish to print it yourself, you can also download the high-res version in US letter or A4 format : http://pgmag.org/01/download -- Damien
On 9 May 2012 08:54, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote: > Hello, > > PostgreSQL Magazine is now available in print at the lulu.com > marketplace : http://pgmag.org/01/buy > > If you wish to print it yourself, you can also download the high-res > version in US letter or A4 format : http://pgmag.org/01/download Excellent work Damien! -- Thom
Le 09/05/2012 10:01, Thom Brown a écrit : > On 9 May 2012 08:54, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> PostgreSQL Magazine is now available in print at the lulu.com >> marketplace : http://pgmag.org/01/buy >> >> If you wish to print it yourself, you can also download the high-res >> version in US letter or A4 format : http://pgmag.org/01/download > > Excellent work Damien! > Thanks ! But again it's a collaborative work, I couldn't have done half of it alone :-) By the way, just a little hint to people that will attend to PGCon next week : You should receive a free copy of the magazine thanks to a generous benefactor. More on this later. -- Damien Clochard
Damian, For the future I'd like to see special section with references to authors of features, described in the magazine. We are all open-source developers and references is a good for us. PostgreSQL is not like other commercial databases, we could easily publish names of developers. I can't say for all developers, but I, for example, would appreciate my name listed as developer of knn and hstore. Oleg On Wed, 9 May 2012, damien clochard wrote: > Hello, > > PostgreSQL Magazine is now available in print at the lulu.com > marketplace : http://pgmag.org/01/buy > > If you wish to print it yourself, you can also download the high-res > version in US letter or A4 format : http://pgmag.org/01/download > > -- > Damien > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83
Le 09/05/2012 10:27, Oleg Bartunov a écrit : > Damian, > > For the future I'd like to see special section with references to > authors of features, > described in the magazine. We are all open-source developers and > references is a good > for us. PostgreSQL is not like other commercial databases, we could > easily publish names > of developers. I can't say for all developers, but I, for example, would > appreciate my name listed as > developer of knn and hstore. Hi Oleg ! I completely agree with you that PostgreSQL developers and contributors should be highlighted in the magazine. Actually, this is exactly why we have an interview of a different community member in each issue. We want to spread light on contributors that most PostgreSQL users may not know. However each writer has its own freedom and as the editor in chief I can only encourage references as a "best practice"... I just updated the writer guidelines here : http://pgmag.org/wiki/writer_guidelines Anyway pgmag is a community-driven initiative and you can have a direct influence on this : A/ Most of our content comes from the planet.postgresql.org or from the wiki. That's the case for the articles titled "10 awesome features of PostgreSQL 9.1" which contains a page about KNN index. The article is heavily based on the "What's new in PostgreSQL 9.1" wiki page (see below). For the next release, we will probably use the "what's new in PG 9.2" wiki page as well, so in this case the best way to add references to the author is to edit the wiki page directly :) Links : http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1 http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.2 B/ For other articles that don't come from the wiki, you can simply join de pgmag team and become a reviewer. You will have approx. 3 weeks to be proof-read the articles before the layout design starts. We have lots of reviewers (thanks to them) and that's a key step to garantee the quality of our content. Thanks for your message. In the future, I'll try to make sure that your name appears when an article talks about hstore, FTS, GIST, etc.
hi ! I'm pleased to announce that 200 copies of PostgreSQL Magazine #01 were printed and shipped to PGCon in Ottawa. Each attendee of the conference will receive a free copy of the magazine. This was made possible thanks to the support of EnterpriseDB, who is the printing sponsor of this "PGCon edition". Thanks a lot to them. -- damien
On 5/16/12 1:12 AM, damien clochard wrote: > hi ! > > I'm pleased to announce that 200 copies of PostgreSQL Magazine #01 were > printed and shipped to PGCon in Ottawa. Each attendee of the conference > will receive a free copy of the magazine. These looked terrific! Dan Langille auctioned off the last 3 unclaimed copies for $140, even. Where did you have them printed? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 10:36 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Dan Langille auctioned off the last 3 unclaimed copies for $140, > even. 2 copies for $180 ;) -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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Damien, On this page: http://pgmag.org/01/download ... it still says "US Letter Full Bleed" is "Coming Soon". I'd love to get some printed for SELF. Do you already have this somewhere, or do I need to do the reformat myself? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
Le 21/05/2012 19:36, Josh Berkus a écrit : > On 5/16/12 1:12 AM, damien clochard wrote: >> hi ! >> >> I'm pleased to announce that 200 copies of PostgreSQL Magazine #01 were >> printed and shipped to PGCon in Ottawa. Each attendee of the conference >> will receive a free copy of the magazine. > > These looked terrific! Dan Langille auctioned off the last 3 unclaimed > copies for $140, even. > Great ! > Where did you have them printed? > In Montreal, the printing service is called "Mardigrafe". Their website is in French (http://www.mardigrafe.com/) but i guess they speak English fluently. They printed 200 copies for 1600 $ CAN (shipping included) Let me know if you want more details.
Le 22/05/2012 00:10, Josh Berkus a écrit : > Damien, > > On this page: > http://pgmag.org/01/download > > ... it still says "US Letter Full Bleed" is "Coming Soon". I'd love to > get some printed for SELF. Do you already have this somewhere, or do I > need to do the reformat myself? > Sorry again, I just forgot. Here it is : http://pgmag.org/01/download#print_version Regards, -- damien
On 5/22/12 3:18 AM, damien clochard wrote: > Le 22/05/2012 00:10, Josh Berkus a écrit : >> Damien, >> >> On this page: >> http://pgmag.org/01/download >> >> ... it still says "US Letter Full Bleed" is "Coming Soon". I'd love to >> get some printed for SELF. Do you already have this somewhere, or do I >> need to do the reformat myself? >> > > Sorry again, I just forgot. > > Here it is : http://pgmag.org/01/download#print_version Thanks! I'll give you a count when I know how many we can afford to print. It'll be less than 100, though. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On 05/22/2012 01:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > Thanks! I'll give you a count when I know how many we can afford to > print. It'll be less than 100, though. Seems like we should get a run of them aimed toward Postgres Open too, yes?
Damien, We gave away 80 to 90 of Magazine #1 at S.E.L.F. They were very popular. More importantly, Lulu.com was at the show, and may be offering to print them for us as a donation in the future. I'm waiting to hear on that. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
Le 19/06/2012 01:51, Josh Berkus a écrit : > Damien, > > We gave away 80 to 90 of Magazine #1 at S.E.L.F. They were very popular. > Cool. From my own experience in FOSDEM and PG Day France, the magazine is very effective advocacy material because people tend to keep it longer and even bring it at work for their colleagues... Whereas most of the regular conferences leaflets and flyers are thrown in the trash at the end of the day. > More importantly, Lulu.com was at the show, and may be offering to print > them for us as a donation in the future. I'm waiting to hear on that. > wow.
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:13 AM, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
I would second this. At MYGOSSCON, I found PG Magazine was simply our strongest piece of marketing material we had. In particular the "PostgreSQL at 1 Billion Queries per Day" at a public sector convention was a real hit.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Le 19/06/2012 01:51, Josh Berkus a écrit :> Damien,Cool. From my own experience in FOSDEM and PG Day France, the magazine
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> We gave away 80 to 90 of Magazine #1 at S.E.L.F. They were very popular.
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is very effective advocacy material because people tend to keep it
longer and even bring it at work for their colleagues... Whereas most of
the regular conferences leaflets and flyers are thrown in the trash at
the end of the day.
I would second this. At MYGOSSCON, I found PG Magazine was simply our strongest piece of marketing material we had. In particular the "PostgreSQL at 1 Billion Queries per Day" at a public sector convention was a real hit.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
wow.
> More importantly, Lulu.com was at the show, and may be offering to print
> them for us as a donation in the future. I'm waiting to hear on that.
>
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I've been pretty lazy on that front. Let me ask around at work again. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 24, 2012, at 9:13 AM, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote: > Le 19/06/2012 01:51, Josh Berkus a écrit : >> Damien, >> >> We gave away 80 to 90 of Magazine #1 at S.E.L.F. They were very popular. >> > > Cool. From my own experience in FOSDEM and PG Day France, the magazine > is very effective advocacy material because people tend to keep it > longer and even bring it at work for their colleagues... Whereas most of > the regular conferences leaflets and flyers are thrown in the trash at > the end of the day. > >> More importantly, Lulu.com was at the show, and may be offering to print >> them for us as a donation in the future. I'm waiting to hear on that. >> > > wow. > > -- > Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy