Re: Major French companies officially asking sofware vendors tosupport PostgreSQL

Dear Justin,


Le jeudi 07 décembre 2017 à 14:11 +0000, Justin Clift a écrit :
> On 7 Dec 2017, at 07:13, Damien Clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
> > 
> > The French PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group, a non-profit
> > organization advocating for the adoption and use of PostgreSQL,
> > just published an open letter to all software vendors that don’t
> > already do so to take steps to support PostgreSQL as a database
> > management system (DBMS).
> > 
> > The ambition of this initiative is to incite them to adapt quickly
> > to the irresistible IT transformation in progress in public and
> > private companies.
> > 
> > Created in 2016, the PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group (
> > called “Groupe de Travail Inter-Entreprise” or “GT Entreprise” in
> > French) is a dedidacted task force inside the PostgreSQLFr non-
> > profit association (https://www.postgresql.fr/asso/). Over the last
> > months,it has grown remarkably.
> > 
> > In a new press release published yesterday, the workgroup sent an
> > open letter to software vendors asking them officially to support
> > PostgreSQL.
> > 
> > * Original version :
> > <https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/20171206_lettre_ouverte_aux_
> > editeurs_de_logiciels>
> > 
> > * English translation :
> > <https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/english>
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Awesome. :)

Indeed :-)

> This seems like the kind of thing that should go on the PostgreSQL
> website's "News" section.  Well, the English translation of it, as
> the .org website is English focused.

Definitely +1

But Damien, as the President of PostgreSQLFr NPO will answer this. He
may have more information on it.

> 
> Also - very minor - there's a typo on the first sentence of the
> English
> page:
> 
>   https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/english
> 
> "... is a dedidacted task force ..." ← dedicated is spelled wrong. ;)
> 
> For press release's, it's probably worth fixing though.  First
> impression
> stuff, etc. ;)
> 
> Out of curiosity, how much time and effort has it taken to get the
> French
> PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group up and running?  Sounds like a
> lot.

This depends a lot on what has to be counted.

This cross-enterprise group was created around november 2016,
officially, after we talk a lot of it some months before. Since then,
we all try to convince users (and, let's say, customers also) to join
this group. It's composed only of users. No IT services companies are
allowed to join. Under PGFR's NPO, the independancy of the group is
guaranteed. Also, Damien from PGFR and Simon from SNCF have to be
rewarded a lot for the time and efforts they put in this.

But the tree would never have grown without lots of people efforts
here, includling translators, coders, users, simple DBAs giving time
and efforts... to plant the seeds, years ago! 

And a special founder is surely Bruce that put some pressure on us to
launch PostgreSQL.fr in ~2004. That was a great idea ;-)

Cheers,

> 
> Regards and best wishes,
> 
> Justin Clift
> 
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