X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68FB9DCD94 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:39:54 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89823-05 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:39:55 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.pha.pa.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFAD9DCD91 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:39:51 -0400 (AST) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id k22LdYR12106; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:39:34 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200603022139.k22LdYR12106@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: PostgreSQL User Map In-Reply-To: <43EB468B.4070309@ccgis.de> To: Arnulf Christl Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:39:34 -0500 (EST) CC: Peter Eisentraut , PostgreSQL www X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.422 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.078, RAZOR2_CHECK=0.5] X-Spam-Score: 0.422 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/17 X-Sequence-Number: 9607 [ CC to www list.] I am thinking we need to do something automated with the existing email lists. It seems self-registration isn't working or isn't prominent enough. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnulf Christl wrote: > Hey, > I didn't want to spam lists with this issue again, sorry to go at you > directly. > > This thing is up now for some time but it seems as if no one is really > seeing or even using it. We are still committed to what we said and I > dunno - maybe you are still interested? > > http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/PostgreSQL_User_Map > > In the meantime major things have been going on in the Geospatial > community and as we are strong promoters of PostgreSQL we have made sure > that PG will be one of the core components of the newly announced Open > Source Geospatial Foundation. Read more about what has been going on here: > http://www.osgeo.org/ > > We are planning to set up an Open Source geospatial infrastructure > software stack and it will contain a PostgreSQL PostGIS engine as > database core. I could imagine that you would be interested in having > your user map hosted there for a starter, it would mean that you do not > have to do anything in the sense of installing or maintaining the > software, just link it and be happy. The close linkage to the Mapbender > project would also be loosened - if that would have been any kinf of > problem. > > I did not discuss anything of this with the board of directors yet but I > would if you say that this might be interesting to you. > > Best regards, > Arnulf Christl. > -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +