Re: Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Users' Group sites

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Guys,
>
> > Well just to chuck in my tuppence worth - I agree; regional sites are
> > not user groups. 'User group' implies some sort of organised group of
> > users. A website is no more a user group than Robert's dead horse. Of
> > course, the group might have their own site (as might the horse), but
> > that not what makes them a PUG.
>
> OK, how about an easy compromise,then?
>
> Users' Groups
>     San Francisco
>     Portland
>     Tunesia
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> Regional/Language Groups
>     French
>     Brazillian Portuguese
>     Spanish
>
>
> I *would* like to have links to the language groups on that main PUG page,
> simply to help folks in say, Paris, to build as Users's group (e.g. "Huh?  No
> Paris PUG?  Let me e-mail Jean-Paul and see how many users are in Paris
> ....")

I can live with the distinction as above ...

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