Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:26:20 -0400
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Proposal: pulling newsbytes from www.pgfoundry.org
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To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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	Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>,
	Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, josh@agliodbs.com
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On Wednesday 11 June 2008 23:20:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 22:58 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 03:58:40 Dave Page wrote:
> > > I'm not convinced that merging them is such a hot idea anyway. It will
> > > likely seriously reduce the amount of time any announcement gets front
> > > page time which will in turn reduce the usefulness of the section.
> > > Further, we then have a potential problem ensuring we don't get
> > > duplicate items when one gets approved on www and subsequently on
> > > pgFoundry. That of course, applies whether we merge the feed with the
> > > existing news, or add it as a new section (ignoring the layout issues
> > > that would involve!)
> >
> > The other concern that I have is that this gives even less face time to
> > core project related news, which already has a hard time getting
> > exposure. Things like minor releases, project events (beta/gsoc), and
> > large community gatherings (oscon/pgcon) get at best limited exposure and
> > that's if aren't just lumped in with everything else.
>
> OSCON and PGCON are responsible for their own promotion. As pgfoundry is
> an official PostgreSQL supported project, it deserves more face time
> than either of those two. One option would be to have:
>

Thats the kind of thinking that helps keep the postgresql community small. We 
should be promoting those events that rally our existing community and help 
raise exposure for Postgres outside of the community, no matter who runs 
them.

-- 
Robert Treat
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