Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?

For the 10th birthday we used the start of the online presence as our birthday, not the Postgres95 release. That's next year.

It would seem odd to change the definition and celebrate a 20th birthday 9 years after the 10th.

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> On 23 Mar 2015, at 09:06, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
>
>
> Determining the birth date of an open source project is a open debate.
> However in our case, I think we can consider the first official
> open-source release which is 1995-05-01
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/release-0-01.html
>
> Btw I find it funny that PostgreSQL 9.5 will be released 20 years after
> Postgres95 :)
>
> This sounds to me like a nice opportunity to organize bithday parties
> everywhere :) If we want to organize a joint effort to celebrate this, I
> think we could build a small birthday team to federate local initiatives.
>
> For instance :
>
> - contact all PUGs and local association and try to get them involved
> - contact all PG and FLOSS conferences and try to get them involved as well
> - define a "celebration week" and let each local user group choose the
> best date inside that week
> - organize the "celebration week" in september-october, to be closer to
> the release of PostgreSQL 9.5... Btw May 1st is really near and it's
> certainly not a good choice in many countries.
> - define a common logo, a common hasthag and maybe a website
>
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