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From: David Fetter <[email protected]>
To: Devrim G 334ND 334Z <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New Lists?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:17:48 -0700
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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:26:00AM +0300, Devrim G?ND?Z wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:02 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > I like this idea, but I have questions about how we assess this.
> > We have a sample of size comfortably less than 10 from all of the
> > People's Republic of China, and fewer still from Iran.  How do we
> > know whom we're talking to?
> 
> How do you know that the people who ask you a list is really a
> PostgreSQL guy? When I asked for a list for -tr (which is the first
> country-specific list...) noone objected since people knew me. 

That is the problem.  Not every country has a known representative,
nor, I think, should we demand that that they do in order to get
started.

> "Endorsing by a known community member" is a good option, when there
> are few people in that specific country. 

In China, we have approximately zero.  Similar with Iran.

> ... BTW, "leadership" does not meet the meaning that I wanted to
> say.  Ignore that part, please.
> 
> > One way to define leadership is "those who step up and do the
> > work." It's always possible to revisit :)
> 
> Once we create the list, people from local community will ask for
> updates whenever the list administrator cannot administrate the list
> any longer.

OK :)

Cheers,
D
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David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/
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