Thread: Keep calm and use Postgres

Keep calm and use Postgres

From
damien clochard
Date:
I probably have better things to do but I couldn't get the idea out of
my idea so I just built a PG version of the "Keep Calm" meme

https://raw.github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/master/advocacy/posters/keepcalm/Keep-calm-and-use-postgres.png

That's not very original but I feel it could be a nice poster for a
PostgreSQL booth, especially if you're right next to the mongodb booth :P

Whether this is useful or not, I let you decide. Anyway source files are
here :

https://github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/tree/master/advocacy/posters/keepcalm


Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/02/2013 01:49 PM, damien clochard wrote:
>
> I probably have better things to do but I couldn't get the idea out of
> my idea so I just built a PG version of the "Keep Calm" meme
>
> https://raw.github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/master/advocacy/posters/keepcalm/Keep-calm-and-use-postgres.png

Fun.  Mark, Gabrielle, should we use this for OSCON?

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Michael Alan Brewer
Date:

I might try this at SELF this weekend, too.

---Michael Brewer
mbrewer@gmail.com

On Jun 3, 2013 7:25 PM, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
On 06/02/2013 01:49 PM, damien clochard wrote:
>
> I probably have better things to do but I couldn't get the idea out of
> my idea so I just built a PG version of the "Keep Calm" meme
>
> https://raw.github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/master/advocacy/posters/keepcalm/Keep-calm-and-use-postgres.png

Fun.  Mark, Gabrielle, should we use this for OSCON?

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Mark Wong
Date:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 01:49 PM, damien clochard wrote:
>>
>> I probably have better things to do but I couldn't get the idea out of
>> my idea so I just built a PG version of the "Keep Calm" meme
>>
>> https://raw.github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/master/advocacy/posters/keepcalm/Keep-calm-and-use-postgres.png
>
> Fun.  Mark, Gabrielle, should we use this for OSCON?

Yeah, we can get one of those made.  We need to order another banner
anyway.  Would you happen to know where to get the graphic for the
other small banner that we used previously?

Regards,
Mark


Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/03/2013 05:17 PM, Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
> I might try this at SELF this weekend, too.

Crap, I haven't shipped you anything, have I?  Sorry, between pgcon and
the flu I lost track.

Does it still work to send you some flyers?  I can see what I have.

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Michael Alan Brewer
Date:
If you've got stuff to ship, that'd be great; otherwise, I'm getting creative at Kinko's. ;)

---Michael Brewer
mbrewer@gmail.com



On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
On 06/03/2013 05:17 PM, Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
> I might try this at SELF this weekend, too.

Crap, I haven't shipped you anything, have I?  Sorry, between pgcon and
the flu I lost track.

Does it still work to send you some flyers?  I can see what I have.

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/04/2013 10:08 AM, Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
> If you've got stuff to ship, that'd be great; otherwise, I'm getting
> creative at Kinko's. ;)

I'll check, and let you know what's on its way, if anything.

Do you have a banner or anything else?  I have a small one I can send you.

Oh, and please send me your shipping address via private email so I
don't have to hunt for it.

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Mark,

> Yeah, we can get one of those made.  We need to order another banner
> anyway.  Would you happen to know where to get the graphic for the
> other small banner that we used previously?

Well, for a small banner I have a 1' X 5' you can use.   I'm pretty sure
I have another canvas banner somewhere, I can look for it.

The last banner you ordered was inadvertently 4' X 8', even though most
of it was blank.  You shipped it to me and the mail service damaged it
rather badly.

The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
want to hand out:

1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner

2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.

3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.

4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
them.

5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.

All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
would be too much.  Thoughts?

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Michael Alan Brewer
Date:
Note: I'll be at OpenSourceBridge in a couple of weeks, so I can take Mark anything you ship to me (if you like), in advance of OSCON.

---Michael Brewer
mbrewer@gmail.com



On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
Mark,

> Yeah, we can get one of those made.  We need to order another banner
> anyway.  Would you happen to know where to get the graphic for the
> other small banner that we used previously?

Well, for a small banner I have a 1' X 5' you can use.   I'm pretty sure
I have another canvas banner somewhere, I can look for it.

The last banner you ordered was inadvertently 4' X 8', even though most
of it was blank.  You shipped it to me and the mail service damaged it
rather badly.

The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
want to hand out:

1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner

2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.

3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.

4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
them.

5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.

All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
would be too much.  Thoughts?

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/04/2013 10:13 AM, Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
> I don't currently (have a banner); was considering blowing up the "Keep
> Calm" sign. ;) (Or browsing the wiki for suitable artwork.)

Here's what I'll be sending you:

* 1' X 5' vinyl banner which just says "PostgreSQL".
* Stack of 100 "What is PostgreSQL" flyers.
* Stack of 200 PostgreSQL 9.2 flyers.
* Around 150 elephant stickers
* Small stack of Postgres Open advertisements.

They should be delivered to you on Friday.

I think if you print out a quick "Keep Calm" poster, you'll be set for
the conference.

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Re: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Michael Alan Brewer
Date:
Sounds great! (I'll also bring the sousaphone, of course. Putting the "bass" in "database"... ;) )

---Michael Brewer
mbrewer@gmail.com



On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
On 06/04/2013 10:13 AM, Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
> I don't currently (have a banner); was considering blowing up the "Keep
> Calm" sign. ;) (Or browsing the wiki for suitable artwork.)

Here's what I'll be sending you:

* 1' X 5' vinyl banner which just says "PostgreSQL".
* Stack of 100 "What is PostgreSQL" flyers.
* Stack of 200 PostgreSQL 9.2 flyers.
* Around 150 elephant stickers
* Small stack of Postgres Open advertisements.

They should be delivered to you on Friday.

I think if you print out a quick "Keep Calm" poster, you'll be set for
the conference.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
> The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
> want to hand out:
>
> 1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner
>
> 2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.
>
> 3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.
>
> 4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
> the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
> them.
>
> 5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.
>
> All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
> would be too much.  Thoughts?

Mark?


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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Michael Alan Brewer
Date:
Which reminds me: The SELF report:

 - So, on Saturday morning (very early), I drove to the SouthEast LinuxFest to man the booth:
 https://twitpic.com/cw1lkg

The booth was open from 9-5; I was the only worker for the PG booth. (Drove back home Saturday evening; *long* day.)

 - SELF seemed smaller to me this year (in total number of attendees; there seemed to be as many or more vendor displays than usual). I still haven't figured out why a free conference (within 2 hours of Raleigh) draws so poorly.

 - The PG booth got a lot of traffic, partially due to the sousaphone (which in my experience has been incredibly effective in bringing people by the booth), but mostly due to being 2 booths over from the lockpicking/lock enthusiasts table (who had beer/alcohol, although I'm not sure how). The stickers were the most popular item (by far); I did give out a lot of the "10 Reasons..." and "9.2" flyers. The PGOpen conference cards also were fairly popular, and I discussed the conference with many people (particularly one coder, who told me that their business has a set of Postgres databases that record *every* point-of-sale record at every AMC theatre location; I told him [pointedly, repeatedly] to *definitely* submit a presentation on that to Open).

I'll be bringing more than half of everything you sent me (and, of course, the banner, which was surprisingly difficult to keep mounted, as it kept pulling off the table) to Mark at Portland next week. Plenty of everything left, although you'll probably want more stickers and Open flyers for OSCON. (I didn't get around to making Keep Calm stickers, but it was just as well, as we had so much left over.)

---Michael Brewer
mbrewer@gmail.com



On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
> want to hand out:
>
> 1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner
>
> 2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.
>
> 3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.
>
> 4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
> the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
> them.
>
> 5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.
>
> All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
> would be too much.  Thoughts?

Mark?


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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Mark Wong
Date:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
>> want to hand out:
>>
>> 1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner
>>
>> 2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.
>>
>> 3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.
>>
>> 4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
>> the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
>> them.
>>
>> 5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.
>>
>> All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
>> would be too much.  Thoughts?
>
> Mark?

Oh yes, sorry, I'm trying to sync up with Gabrielle this week to go
through our checklist...

Regards,
Mark


Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/10/2013 12:52 PM, Michael Alan Brewer wrote:
> Which reminds me: The SELF report:
>
>  - So, on Saturday morning (very early), I drove to the SouthEast LinuxFest
> to man the booth:
>  https://twitpic.com/cw1lkg
>
> The booth was open from 9-5; I was the only worker for the PG booth. (Drove
> back home Saturday evening; *long* day.)

Huh?  Christophe wasn't around to help?

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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Mark Wong
Date:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
>> want to hand out:
>>
>> 1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner
>>
>> 2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.
>>
>> 3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.
>>
>> 4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
>> the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
>> them.
>>
>> 5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.
>>
>> All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
>> would be too much.  Thoughts?

Hi Josh,

We opted for just displaying the poster.  You said you had one you
could send?  Let's do some of the small Keep Calm posters, and
stickers.  I got the sticker details from Selena, so we can take care
of ordering those in Portland.

I can also bring these guys again too:
http://chelnik.tumblr.com/image/27611939907

Regards,
Mark


Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Michael Alan Brewer
Date:
(IMHO) You'll want the banner I'm bringing you next week; it's a nice, straightforward PostgreSQL banner.

---Michael Brewer
mbrewer@gmail.com



On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> The question is what we want to decorate the booth with, and what we
>> want to hand out:
>>
>> 1. we can do a generic PostgreSQL banner
>>
>> 2. we can do some Keep Calm posters.
>>
>> 3. I can get small Keep Calm posters to give away for about $0.70 each.
>>
>> 4. we'll want stickers.  See if you can find out where selena ordered
>> the transparent ones, people like those and my sticker printer can't do
>> them.
>>
>> 5. We could do a 9.3 poster, per the t-shirt design I sent you.
>>
>> All of the above are possible, but we don't want to do *all* of them, it
>> would be too much.  Thoughts?

Hi Josh,

We opted for just displaying the poster.  You said you had one you
could send?  Let's do some of the small Keep Calm posters, and
stickers.  I got the sticker details from Selena, so we can take care
of ordering those in Portland.

I can also bring these guys again too:
http://chelnik.tumblr.com/image/27611939907

Regards,
Mark


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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Mark Wong
Date:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Michael Alan Brewer <mbrewer@gmail.com> wrote:
> (IMHO) You'll want the banner I'm bringing you next week; it's a nice,
> straightforward PostgreSQL banner.

Good deal.  By the way, the Portland user group meeting is Thursday
night, in case you were looking for something to do.

Regards,
Mark


Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/13/2013 10:35 AM, Mark Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Michael Alan Brewer <mbrewer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> (IMHO) You'll want the banner I'm bringing you next week; it's a nice,
>> straightforward PostgreSQL banner.
>
> Good deal.  By the way, the Portland user group meeting is Thursday
> night, in case you were looking for something to do.

Speaking of which, with both me & Dimitri in town, it would be cool to
have a special PDXPUG meeting during OSCON week.  I'm sure either/both
of us could present.

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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Mark,

> We opted for just displaying the poster.  You said you had one you
> could send?  Let's do some of the small Keep Calm posters,

So the 11"X17" mini-posters?  I can order them.

> and
> stickers.  I got the sticker details from Selena, so we can take care
> of ordering those in Portland.

If they're the clear black/white stickers, please order enough for other
events through the year.  Let's work out funding and maybe order 1000 of
the black and 2000 of the white.

I think we *do* want a 9.3 Flyer to hand out, though ... anyone wanna
design one?

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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Dimitri Fontaine
Date:
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Speaking of which, with both me & Dimitri in town, it would be cool to
> have a special PDXPUG meeting during OSCON week.  I'm sure either/both
> of us could present.

+1

I'll be there from the 25th only though.

See you there,
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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
On 06/14/2013 06:45 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Speaking of which, with both me & Dimitri in town, it would be cool to
>> have a special PDXPUG meeting during OSCON week.  I'm sure either/both
>> of us could present.
>
> +1
>
> I'll be there from the 25th only though.

Wait, what?   You're flying all the way out to the US for just one day?

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Re: OSCON Booth Swag WAS: Keep calm and use Postgres

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
On 06/14/2013 09:30 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> On 06/14/2013 06:45 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>>> Speaking of which, with both me & Dimitri in town, it would be cool to
>>> have a special PDXPUG meeting during OSCON week.  I'm sure either/both
>>> of us could present.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I'll be there from the 25th only though.
>
> Wait, what?   You're flying all the way out to the US for just one day?
>

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