Re: Recognition Guidelines Patch

>> What would happen to the conference events already listed at
>> https://www.postgresql.org/about/event? Are they going to be removed
>> if the organizer of a conference does not agree with this?
>
> The guidelines for events are not about what is listed on the events page, those are available here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval#Approving_Events_and_Event-Related_News_.28excluding_training.29 <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval#Approving_Events_and_Event-Related_News_.28excluding_training.29>

Isn't that for approving posts to pgsql-announce?

> The guidelines are for recognizing what constitutes a *community* event versus an event about PostgreSQL, i.e. this sentence:
>
> > Events that do not meet the criteria will still be welcomed (where appropriate under the general listing policies) -
> > for example, events organised by a single company which may still be valuable for people to attend, but are
> > not necessarily what we would consider fully “open.”
>
> Best,
>
> Jonathan
>

> As I understand it, no. It appears that instead there will essentially
> be two classes of conferences.
>
> 1. Recognized .Org conferences (those that follow the .Org guidelines)
>
> 2. Everyone else (who would still be subject to the event posting
> rules but not subject to the "Recognized" .Org conference guidelines.

So, "community event" constitutes #1 and will be on the website
different from what we have now?

> My guess is that #1 will have some level of preferential treatment on
> the website.

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--
Tatsuo Ishii
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