Re: Draft #6: Semi-Final

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 10:35, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:11, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > By the way: should there be an online version of the German press
> > > releases and where to put it? It wouldn't be a problem to put it at a
> > > seperate area on www.go-gen.com, but I would prefer something official
> > > and in corporate design like www.postgresql.com
> >
> > If somebody designs it, I think we can put it up at
> > advocacy.postgresql.org. Robert?
>
> There will be one on the advocacy site. We put up the major releases
> there for each of the translations that we have. You can check out
> 7.3.0's release on the site if you wish.
>
> > > > CONTACT: press@postgresql.org
> > > >
> > > > PANAMA CITY, PANAMA: SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
> > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> > >
> > > Though Panama City would be an eye catcher, for German market I
> > > recommend a city better known for IT, maybe an US city, or Berlin
> > > instead.
> >
> > Hmmm ... well, the point we're trying to make is that it's an
> > international project.   If we could leave off the city entirely, we
> > would but the AP will just make up a city in that case.
> >
> > Panama City is where our servers are currently hosted, so it's as good a
> > location as any.   I particularly don't want to use Toronto again because
> > the press have gotten the idea that PostgreSQL is a "Canadian" project.
>
> Hmm... be affiliated with a third world country not known for anything
> technology related or canada... panama city it is! :-)

Not to mention this release could somehow carry a deadly electronic version of
SARS or madcow.... ;-)


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