Re: Correct place for merchandising issues

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 00:29 +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:32 -0800 Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> > Actually I would argue that for eu related merchandising it is
> > absolutely appropriate. EU/US (and other regions) are going to be
> > relatively autonomous in their needs outside of content (such as source
> > for flyers).
>
> Even if EU and US are autonomous (which isn't absolutely true)

Not absolutely, no. I was referring to things like the Elephants. The US
would never sanely purchase the Elephants from EU. They are too
expensive.

We would of course share flyer, brochure sources or even possibly shirt
designs etc...

>  - what
> about other countries and continents? Do we want to establish separate
> processes in each and every country, for each conference as example? Or
> wouldn't it better to have a contact where one can ask for promotion and
> merchandising material?

Well for entities that are not yet established I think it would make
sense to ask on the -advocacy list. But for someone like EU/US/BR/JP it
seems odd.

>
> If i pick up your autonomy idea: the eu-general list isn't the right
> place for this discussion because this will flood the inbox of every
> subscriber with a lot of eu-unrelated talk.

hmmm maybe.

>
> So my question about the right place is still open.
>

perhaps a separate list for the region?

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Kind regards
>
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>                 Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
> German PostgreSQL User Group
> European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
> Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project
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