[pgsql-advocacy] Re: [pgsql-eu-general] The Italian PostgreSQL Users Group is finally a non profit organisation

Gabriele Bartolini a écrit :
> I am really proud to announce that last Saturday, 17 november 2007,
> the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group has been founded by twelve volunteers
> and that today the non-profit organisation has been officially registered.
>

Congrats :)

> As far as I know, this is the second non-profit organisation entirely
> dedicated to PostgreSQL ever to be founded in Europe - after the great
> French one (I might be wrong though, in that case please correct me).
>

The french organization is a non-profit one entirely dedicated to
PostgreSQL. It seems to me it was the first. Anyways, congrats. You've
done a terrific job (pgDay event, and now a non-profit organization...
nothing will stop you :) ).

> [...]
> This process has taken a few months and has been the natural produce
> of PGDay. Most of the founders indeed took part in the organisation of
> the biggest gathering of the PostgreSQL community ever to be held in
> Europe (so far). ;-)
>

+1

> Although IT-PUG is still in its startup phase, users can find some
> information (including the statute - in Italian) on the website:
> www.itpug.org . Hopefully soon IT-PUG will be ready to accept
> subscriptions online as well.
>

I would have some questions to ask. For example, the purpose of the
organization is to prepare "events, conferences, courses"... so this is
mainly advocacy stuff ? or do you also plan to contribute on
translations, coding, etc. ? On the translation side, I know that
Giuseppe Sacco is doing a really great work (100% done for 1.8). But I
don't see any translation of pginstaller (PostgreSQL Windows Installer),
and the PostgreSQL translation is at most at 60%. Do you think your
organization can work on some of these ? this is also kind of advocacy
work :) And what about the manual ? Last question, do you know italian
people coding on a PostgreSQL project ?

Whooo, that's really a lot of questions, sorry about that :) with your
answers, I'll probably write a small paper for postgresqlfr.org. Thanks :)

Ciao Guillaume,

> I would have some questions to ask. For example, the purpose of the
> organization is to prepare "events, conferences, courses"... so this is
> mainly advocacy stuff ? or do you also plan to contribute on
> translations, coding, etc. ? On the translation side, I know that
> Giuseppe Sacco is doing a really great work (100% done for 1.8). But I
> don't see any translation of pginstaller (PostgreSQL Windows Installer),
> and the PostgreSQL translation is at most at 60%. Do you think your
> organization can work on some of these ? this is also kind of advocacy
> work :) And what about the manual ? Last question, do you know italian
> people coding on a PostgreSQL project ?
>   
Yep. I think I mentioned the word 'projects' too, which was a short-term
including several things:

1) PostgreSQL core code
2) PostgreSQL related applications
3) Localisation (we know lots of people help translating PostgreSQL
parts, but a unified task force would be much better - I would love for
instance to get in touch with Giuseppe and ask him to join the
association). A localisation task force, with the same members
contributing for the projects will be still responsibile for that
project, could help us reach uniformity and standard rules /
methodologies. Also, at the moment, we do not have an Italian PostgreSQL
manual and we already started up something during PGDay.

As I said, the association is everyone's. Everyone can make proposals
and participate. The current board of directors is working hard to give
the directions, and members to help starting them up. Personally I hope
that other people, in a year or so, will be able to take my place and
continue to help the association reach its goals. :)
> Whooo, that's really a lot of questions, sorry about that :) with your
> answers, I'll probably write a small paper for postgresqlfr.org. Thanks :)
>   
Thank you.

Ciao,
Gabriele