Thread: Miscategorized event?

Just looking at upcoming events and I notice that this event:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/event.699

Seems to be a conference, not a training event.  Might it get more 
visibility if its listed in events - which gets front page visibility, 
as opposed to training?  Or perhaps cross listing it in both places...

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Chander Ganesan
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
> Just looking at upcoming events and I notice that this event:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/event.699
>
> Seems to be a conference, not a training event.  Might it get more
> visibility if its listed in events - which gets front page visibility, as
> opposed to training?  Or perhaps cross listing it in both places...

Agreed. I've flipped the training flag off.

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Dave, Chander, all,

   It is actually a small workshop guys, taking place in the hugest Open Source event @ Argentina, which is not a training course but indeed a conference that promotes training events in the same place in order to help starters. So this one is a training event, kinda install fest for postgreqsl newbies, as far as I know, and that  is why I approved the post.

I've been in contact with the author of the post, I don't know him, but we've already started thinking about advocacy tasks, prolly with a booth.

I suggest to rollback the flip-off ;-)

Best wishes,
gb.-




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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Guido Barosio <gbarosio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave, Chander, all,
>
>    It is actually a small workshop guys, taking place in the hugest Open
> Source event @ Argentina, which is not a training course but indeed a
> conference that promotes training events in the same place in order to help
> starters. So this one is a training event, kinda install fest for postgreqsl
> newbies, as far as I know, and that  is why I approved the post.
>
> I've been in contact with the author of the post, I don't know him, but
> we've already started thinking about advocacy tasks, prolly with a booth.
>
> I suggest to rollback the flip-off ;-)

<Grumble>

Fixed :-)

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Guido Barosio wrote:
> Dave, Chander, all,
>
>    It is actually a small workshop guys, taking place in the hugest 
> Open Source event @ Argentina, which is not a training course but 
> indeed a conference that promotes training events in the same place in 
> order to help starters. So this one is a training event, kinda install 
> fest for postgreqsl newbies, as far as I know, and that  is why I 
> approved the post.
Seems like, since its free, and its at a conference, it might be better 
served as an event though.  It will get more visibility that way....  A 
great example along the same lines are free Webinars that many vendors 
offer...I've seen those categorized as events as well...

chander
>
> I've been in contact with the author of the post, I don't know him, 
> but we've already started thinking about advocacy tasks, prolly with a 
> booth.
>
> I suggest to rollback the flip-off ;-)
>
> Best wishes,
> gb.-
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org 
> <mailto:dpage@pgadmin.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Chander Ganesan
>     <chander@otg-nc.com <mailto:chander@otg-nc.com>> wrote:
>     > Just looking at upcoming events and I notice that this event:
>     >
>     > http://www.postgresql.org/about/event.699
>     >
>     > Seems to be a conference, not a training event.  Might it get more
>     > visibility if its listed in events - which gets front page
>     visibility, as
>     > opposed to training?  Or perhaps cross listing it in both places...
>
>     Agreed. I've flipped the training flag off.
>
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Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
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Morrisville, NC  27560
919-463-0999/877-258-8987
http://www.otg-nc.com

Chander, thanks for your input!
   
    Indeed, it's free (yay!), and it takes place at an event of a few days. But again, IMHO this is not an event but a training course, the format, the contents and the intentions drive the qualification of the event as a training event.

    These are my thoughts on this matter and I may be wrong, feel free to (irc) slap me with a smelly trout :)

gb.-




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On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 08:50 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
> > Just looking at upcoming events and I notice that this event:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/about/event.699
> >
> > Seems to be a conference, not a training event.  Might it get more
> > visibility if its listed in events - which gets front page visibility, as
> > opposed to training?  Or perhaps cross listing it in both places...
> 
> Agreed. I've flipped the training flag off.


When I logged in this morning (before I saw your post) it will still set
to training, I flipped it again and it stuck. Might be something to
watch for potential bug.

Joshua D. Drake

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 08:50 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
>> > Just looking at upcoming events and I notice that this event:
>> >
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/about/event.699
>> >
>> > Seems to be a conference, not a training event.  Might it get more
>> > visibility if its listed in events - which gets front page visibility, as
>> > opposed to training?  Or perhaps cross listing it in both places...
>>
>> Agreed. I've flipped the training flag off.
>
>
> When I logged in this morning (before I saw your post) it will still set
> to training, I flipped it again and it stuck. Might be something to
> watch for potential bug.

After further discussion, we flipped it back again. there's no bug.


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On 10/07/2008 17:20, Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 08:50 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:>>>
>>> Agreed. I've flipped the training flag off.>>
>> to training, I flipped it again and it stuck. Might be something to
> 
> After further discussion, we flipped it back again. there's no bug.

Training flag tennis!! You must have Wimbledon withdrawal symptoms... :-P

Ray.


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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:

> Training flag tennis!! You must have Wimbledon withdrawal symptoms... :-P

*extremely* unlikely :-p

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