Alex N Markelov (alex.mar...@gmail.com)

Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 29/11/2007 20:14, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Well, whose name should be on the list, and who should be getting the
>> phone calls? That is, who can take calls during the day?
>
> I can generally take calls during the day, and obviously emails aren't a
> problem. So feel free to put my name up - again, if that's OK with Alex.
>
>> All the rest of the work is easily splittable ... I think Germany has
>> 4 people doing it, and Japan has a committee of like 11 people.
>
> That's good to know! As I think I said in an earlier post, I feel
> under-qualified to answer technical questions....but I can certainly
> distribute pre-packaged info, and I suppose I can always seek answers on
> the lists to questions I can't answer myself.
>
> Ray.

Ray,
you can have me any time you need technical or any other help. I'll send
you the contact details.

Guys,
I don't mind at all Ray as the Irish contact. It'd be funny to have a
Russian guy as the Irish contact anyway :-). Let me be a member of the
Irish PG committee :-).

Regards,
Alex.

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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 13:26 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>>> Why was the current press contact for Ireland not notified of a
>>> volunteer?
>> Because he just volunteered, and hasn't yet confirmed that he wants to be a
>> Regional contact now that he knows what it entails. When I have the round up
>> I'll propose *all* the new names to -advocacy.
>>
>> You might have noticed that we put in an appeal for regional contacts into the
>> PostgreSQL Weekly News?
>
> I did notice that, but didn't pick up the detail that you had asked
> people to contact you directly rather than posting to -advocacy. It
> appeared to me that few candidates had come forward.
>
> I'm not clear why you're saying we should have discussed this on
> -advocacy when you aren't doing that yourself. I guess I'm also not
> clear how you had a volunteer for a post that wasn't actually open until
> I offered it up on pgsql-eu-general. If Alex knew about that, why didn't
> he speak at that point rather than going to you privately? If not, why
> didn't you contact me to ask if I minded giving up ROI? So yes, I agree
> we should all discuss things on public lists before they are decided.
>
> Anyway, I've done everything openly and transparently and just trying to
> help get more advocates on board, nothing else. If you feel I've done
> something inappropriate then I'm sorry.
>

Guys,

there is nothing to fight over. I answered directly to Josh, because he
asked in his post to contact him. I didn't think I needed to post it to
the list. As per pgsql-eu-general, I'm not reading it, that's why I
missed it there.

Hope that helps.

I'm not in the position to spend any considerable amount of time at the
moment as the contact (after reading the link Josh sent it looks like a
lot of work), but I'm more than happy to help to whoever is (or will be
elected) the contact for Ireland.

Regards,
Alex.

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>>> I think the best possible PostgreSQL marketing would be for someone to
>>> develop a knock-your-socks-off killer app. It wouldn't have to be

Hi Guys!

May I suggest that in trying to find a killer app we may never get the
word out there :-). Everyone has his vision of a killer app and we may
never find that very one that will satisfy us all and truly be a killer.

I think what made MySQL so popular is that people just went creating
*all* sorts of apps and tools based on it, creating the critical mass,
so you start hearing the word 'MySQL' on every corner.

Why don't we just start building our own big pool of apps (I know we
have plenty already) or even porting existing MySQL based apps to
PostgreSQL, showcasing the best features we have that MySQL lacks? We do
not have to say 'look how bad MySQL is comparing to PostgreSQL', rather
'look you'll have it better way with PostgreSQL'.

I think this way we have more chances to create the demand and publicity
for our favourite RDBMS.

Regards,
Alex.