Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:10:20 +0200
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Event coverage on website
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:13:24PM -0700, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:08 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:13:48AM -0700, Jim Nasby wrote:
> >>Is there anywhere on the site that has coverage of past events? ISTM
> >>there should be...
> >
> >We don't.
> >
> >What are you referring to? An archive of what's listed under  
> >events, or you
> >mean actual texts about the events?
> >
> >As for archive of listed events, I'm not really sure how it helps. But
> >since you're Nasby, you probably have a use-case for it?
> >
> >If you mean texts about them, we generally have archives at the  
> >event sites
> >and planetpostgresql.org - not sure what we'd migrate. Though I notice
> >conference.postgresql.org is still down and has been for a long time -
> >perhaps we should just remove the DNS record for it if it's not  
> >going to be
> >used?
> 
> In this case, I wanted photos from the conferences; particularly the  
> group photos. Luckily, Flicr and Berkus came to the rescue there.

Group photos we have, but just no page bringing them together. Hey, why
don't you make up a page or set of pages to stick under /community and
we'll commit them for you? ;-)

> But we should also keep things like presentations and what-not  
> available. I know conferences have their own websites, but ISTM we  
> should at least link to them from somewhere on PostgreSQL.org.

We have a lot of presentations on techdocs -
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.37.

> The other thing I wanted was general advocacy items, such as graphics  
> I could use. Likewise, it would be good to have a single collection  
> of advocacy presentations that are available for use.

Graphics has it's own project on pgfoundry, IIRC. 

//Magnus