Re: Proposal for a PostgreSQL Print Magazine

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:00 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 3/10/11 2:53 PM, damien clochard wrote:
> > I think that would be great to have a print media to keep in touch with
> > this large user base, because these are the folks that will recommend
> > PostgreSQL to their clients, co-workers, directors, etc.
>
> Everything else being equal, this is a cool idea.
>
> However, the biggest issue for this is getting enough writers.  We don't
> have that many people in our community who can write well, and those we
> do have, have multiple demands for writing on their time (I myself am
> backlogged a couple months for two publications).
>
> Realistically, we'd need to pay writers as well as the editor and the
> editor/translators.  It is unclear on how we would do this initially;
> SPI has a precedent of not paying for people's time,

We may however play flat fees for educational material.

>  and US, EU and JP
> only pay for things in their respective countries.  Once we had regular
> publication, we could solicit donations from advertisers.

I don't know about EU and JP but I know that US would probably be
interested in this as part of their grant process.

JD

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