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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:00:58 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
CC: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Domain conference.postgresql.org requested
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> Yes, but there's forms as well ... registration forms, submission of 
> papers, etc.  I'm also not clear that, for marketing reasons, we want 
> conference registration to be buried in the www.postgresql.org 
> navigation.   Speaking of which, how many levels of navigation does 
> postgresql.org support?

Well personally the conference should be the front page item right now
which would solve the navigation problem.

> 
> Is there someone on this list who's willing to be at our beck and call 
> to make changes that go beyond static HTML (like an announcements 
> ticker)?   And can turn these things around quickly?
> 
> Each of the 4 of us leading the conference effort expect to put in over 
> 100 hours organizing it this spring.  We don't have extra time to spend 
> on a web site beyond the development of content, so we need a solution 
> that doesn't require us to do more than that.  If that solution is the 
> main postgresql.org infrastructure, we're going to need someone on this 
> list to lean on, and lean hard.
> 
> Aside from that, there's some question about whether or not having its 
> own root site might be better for the conference anyway.  If you look at 
> O'Reilly or MySQL, neither subsumes the conference navigation into the 
> main website navigation.   I'm concerned that doing so will make it 
> difficult for attendees to find the information they want.
> 
> On the other hand, it would make it indisputable a "community" event.
> 
> --Josh
> 
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