Re: European Group

Hello all,

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:27:47 +0100
"Gabriele Bartolini" <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Following the chat we had on IRC a few days ago, I am writing
> informally to inquire about the constitution of an European Group of
> PostgreSQL users, a network of national PostgreSQL User Groups spread
> all over Europe.

sounds very good for me.

> One of the main reasons for this is not only to foster the adoption
> of free software and - in the specific case - PostgreSQL in the
> European Community, but also to help the promotion of the product all
> over Europe by reducing costs of production for brochures,
> merchandising, gadgets and the like.

Since some of us are on most events around, you could even save some
shipping costs and of course, there is one reason more to meet
together ;-)

> While organising the first edition of the Italian PostgreSQL Day,
> which day after day is getting the proportion of an European
> conference rather than national, we faced a few problems: the lack of
> promotional materials in Italian.

Tell me, what you need, i can try to organize it.
It seems, that i will take over this job from Susanne and already know,
that i have to reorder shirts (black, white) and elephants.

> One problem of shipping brochures, gadgets, etc. from the US is not
> only delivery costs, but charges, taxes, and delays due to custom
> checks. In some cases even loss of boxes.

Right after David will tell me a bit more about my last mail, i will go
and ask a forwarding agency about all the paper stuff ;-) Or does
anybody know a bit about shipping from EU to USA?

> Anyway, if you are interested, we could even dedicate some time
> regarding this issue during the next PGDay, which will be held in
> Prato, Tuscany on July 7 2007.

I will try to attend and then we should try to make things a bit more official.

Kind regards

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