Re: Count me in

Hi Valeria, count me in too (unless you already have too much volunteers)...

Op do 17 okt. 2019 om 23:50 schreef Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>

> Greetings Valeria,
>
> * Valeria Kaplan (vk(at)dataegret(dot)com) wrote:
> > I gave a talk at pgconf.eu about marketing and proposed an idea of
> having a
> > centralised working group that will be initiating and implementing
> advocacy
> > and marketing activities that will develop and strengthen Postgres brand.
>
> This sounds very much like what this list is actually intended to be,
> with a set of smaller groups who manage particular activities (Press
> Releases, Twitter, Updates to postgresql.org, etc).
>
> What would be different with this "working group"..?
>
> > At the moment, Jonathan does a lot that has to do with press releases
> (and
> > more..) and there is a small group of people who maintain community
> Twitter
> > account where there is a lack of consistency there and need for more
> > people.
>
> I agree that it'd be great to add more people to the twitter team, we
> had some good steam there at the start but the folks currently on that
> team (which includes myself) have gotten over the excitment of it, I'm
> afraid, and aren't being as active (though there's been some recent
> efforts to try and improve on that). What is the lack of consistency
> though? I can believe that to exist, though I suspect it's largely due
> to the people being busy and not as active with the account than
> anything intentional.
>
> > So there is a need to be a bit more structured about it and
> > actually implement, perhaps even small changes that will help with
> Postgres
> > and overall community accessibility, transparency etc.
>
> I'm certainly in support of making changes that will make the community
> more accessible, transparent, etc, though it's unclear what's
> specifically being suggested here.
>
> > A mix of technical and marketing people would be great, so let me know
> > who's in.
>
> I'd be happy to be involved (and I would think we'd probably want to at
> least ask the individuals who are involved in the existing teams who
> support the existing efforts in this area if they wish to be...), though
> unfortunately I wasn't able to be in Milan and can't join in person (and
> the meeting might have already happened now anyway?).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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