Thank you for your quick reply. I do plan on creating a Meetup account. Once that's done, I'm guessing that the fine folks at the -www group can help add the Meetup links to the user-groups link. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, to your point of using T versus TOR for the short name of the group. Here in Toronto, many of the groups like the Toronto Linux Users' Group (TLUG) and the Toronto Hadoop Users' Group (THUG) already follow this pattern. This is the reason why I chose that as the short name. I will think about your suggestion and talk to Steve and Brad to see what they think.
Thanks again for your help.
From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
To: "Faisal Akber" <fakber@vmware.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, steve@ssinger.info, "brad nicholson" <brad.nicholson@gmail.com>, "Jignesh Shah" <jshah@vmware.com>
Sent: Friday, 15 November, 2013 12:25:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Toronto Postgres Users' Group (TPUG)
Hi Faisal,
On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Faisal Akber wrote:
Hi,
I was recently attending the Postgres Open 2013 conference in Chicago and was speaking to some people who are from Toronto like myself (Steve Singer and Brad Nicholson). We noted that there isn't a PUG in Toronto.
We would like to start the Toronto Postgres Users' Group with the first meeting starting in January, 2014.
Could you please let us know what we will need to do to become an officially recognized PUG?
There is no "official process" per se - but if you would like to be listed here (
http://www.postgresql.org/community/user-groups/) we just need a link to either your homepage (e.g. on
meetup.com) and/or mailing list. If you want a @postgresql.org mailing list, you can ask one of the admins on -www to set one up.
Meetup.com also provides mailing lists too.
You may want to consider a different name than TPUG as there are already a bunch of cities / areas that begin with "T" - maybe TORPUG? Of course, if the other Toronto tech user groups tend to be "T"-something, it should be fine.
Jonathan