Thread: Re: Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Users' Group sites

Re: Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Users' Group sites

From
"Dave Page"
Date:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> Sent: 13 May 2004 21:06
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL
> Users' Group sites
>
>
> Users' Groups
>     San Francisco
>     Portland
>     Tunesia
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> Regional/Language Groups
>     French
>     Brazillian Portuguese
>     Spanish
>
>
> I *would* like to have links to the language groups on that
> main PUG page, simply to help folks in say, Paris, to build
> as Users's group (e.g. "Huh?  No Paris PUG?  Let me e-mail
> Jean-Paul and see how many users are in Paris
> ....")

Unless I'm missing something, the point is that they are not 'groups',
they're just regional websites. I've got nothing against giving them
space as they give valuable service, but lets not tout them as something
they aren't.

Regards, Dave.

Re: Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Users' Group sites

From
Robert Treat
Date:
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 03:16, Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> > Sent: 13 May 2004 21:06
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: PostgreSQL WWW
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL
> > Users' Group sites
> >
> >
> > Users' Groups
> >     San Francisco
> >     Portland
> >     Tunesia
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > Regional/Language Groups
> >     French
> >     Brazillian Portuguese
> >     Spanish
> >
> >
> > I *would* like to have links to the language groups on that
> > main PUG page, simply to help folks in say, Paris, to build
> > as Users's group (e.g. "Huh?  No Paris PUG?  Let me e-mail
> > Jean-Paul and see how many users are in Paris
> > ....")
>
> Unless I'm missing something, the point is that they are not 'groups',
> they're just regional websites. I've got nothing against giving them
> space as they give valuable service, but lets not tout them as something
> they aren't.
>
to parlay from the main page how about... "International Communities"

Robert Treat
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Re: Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Users' Group sites

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Am Freitag, 14. Mai 2004 17:10 schrieb Robert Treat:
> to parlay from the main page how about... "International Communities"

The PostgreSQL community is already an international community, so this does
not offer any distinction.