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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: damien clochard <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Training approval policy on pg.org
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:02:35 -0500
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On Jan 10, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:38 PM, damien clochard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Le 10/01/2013 19:14, Magnus Hagander a écrit :
>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> It is likely because we have in the past had lots of people advertise
>>>>> training in bulk and then end up canceling most of them.
>>>> 
>>>> We did.  The policy was specifically to address a couple of companies
>>>> who were listing a training event every week, in order to upstage other
>>>> training companies.
>>> 
>>> Yes.
>>> 
>>> An honest question to Damien though - do you actually expect to *run*
>>> all these training sessions, or are you basicaly doing the same thing
>>> - settings up lots of options and then plan to run the most popular
>>> ones?
>>> 
>> I understand there might have been a problem before with a couple of
>> trolls posting too many unlikely sessions... But this is not what we are
>> doing here. We don't believe in the Google pagerank religion. We suck at
>> SEO. We don't need to upstage anyone.
>> 
>> We just want to let people know what we plan to do. If that's not
>> possible on postgresql.org, well nevermind. We'll find something else to
>> do with our time :-)
> 
> Nah, I think we need a policy that actually helps people (both
> providers and consumers), without being abuse:able. Not entirely sure
> what it is. Maybe we can just increase the numbers now and it won't be
> a problem, because the market has matured.

Earlier in the thread, Damien suggested allowing 15-20 / quarter.  Why not start at 10 /quarter and see what happens?

Jonathan

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