Re: Policy for expiring lists WAS: Idea for a secondary list server

* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> Your comments on the usefulness of the SFPUG list are pretty surprising.
> If SFPUG works well without a list, why do other PUGs need one?
> Maybe mailing lists for PUGs are a thing of the past -- perhaps we need
> to be thinking on getting the @postgres twitter account to re-tweet
> announcements posted by PUGs, or something like that, more suited to
> today's usage of comm channels rather than 1990's.

I like this idea a lot. DCPUG, for example, does pretty well without
using its mailing list and I don't think using it more would help
things (it didn't seem to when we used to)- getting retweeted would be
really nice though. Having the listing on postgresql.org is kind of
nice but that does run the issue of keeping *that* current and listing
the active PUGs.

Having a listing sorted by date which lists the last meetings would be a
lot more useful. This might be getting a bit far afield, but is there a
way we could get meetup integrated into planet? Or having something
else planet-like which provides that integration? Basically, where a
PUG meetup organizer would be able to just configure something-or-other
and then when they post new meetups it'd end up on planet or
'pug.postgresql.org' or something. If G+ has something similar, we
could integrate with that also possibly.

Thanks!

Stephen