Re: PostgreSQL Magazine #00 is out ! Send feedback please !

damien clochard wrote:
> My intention is provide advocacy material to local user groups in the
> form of a classy and eye-catching magazine.

And you succeeded at that, no question.  And the idea of having a 
magazine to give out, instead of the usual boring stuff, is an 
interesting one.

There's a disconnect between where you're at and where I'm at here now 
though, one that this whole discussion highlights.  I'd rather see 
something that's possible to produce in quantity, around the world, as a 
more important priority than optimizing for "classy and eye-catching" at 
the expense of other practical constraints.  I think the PostgreSQL 
community might be better served by something less ambitious, 
graphically, that was easier to print on a global scale.  I really 
appreciate the work you put into targeting print magazine levels of 
polish for the design of #00.  I just don't think that's a sustainable 
nor necessary quality level for a PUG/booth magazine to target in the 
future.  It's hard enough to get useful magazine-style content produced 
on any regular schedule.  If it's got to be graphically intense and it 
ends up being challenging to distribute, too, you may have made the 
requirements too hard to accomplish.

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