Re: List types

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:46:52AM -0800, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> > > What's the difference between "Regional lists" and "User Groups Lists"? I
> > > mean, we have persian pug under regional, but sydney and portland under
> > > user groups... Should we just merge these?
> > >
> > > (http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/)
> >
> > The PUGs are supposed to be groups working on face to face events etc.
> > The Regionals are actually a kind of mix of language and
> > region-speciifc content.
>
> Looking over the user group and regional lists, I feel like we need a
> new category.
>
> Here's what I propose:
>
> User Groups
> * organizing face-to-face meetings, local advocacy. generally
> highly-local discussion that is a mix of technical/non-technical
>
> Regional Organization
> * larger geographic area, non-profit groups, primarily
> non-technical discussion
>
> Language-specific lists
> * These follow the model of pgsql-general - providing technical
> support and referrals in a specific language: pgsql-es-ayuda,
> pgsql-fr-generale and the Persian list *seem* to follow this model.
> Alvarro could speak for pgsql-es-ayuda. I *think* pgsql-it-generale
> also falls in that category. Gabriele?

(I'm not commenting on this ATM, in the hope that others will)

> Does that division sit well with people? I can offer a patch later on
> today for the pages and sidebars.

It lives in the database as of today, so there's no patch to move these
things around. It's a bunch of UPDATE statements...

//Magnus