Re: Recognition Guidelines Patch

> On Aug 1, 2017, at 10:26 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
>>> 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?

And what goes on the events page on .org. This the guide I have been using for X years I have been helping to moderate.

>
>> 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?

Nothing is changing on what is being published to the website right now, it is still following the aforementioned link I posted.

Thanks,

Jonathan