Re: On future conferences

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:23:02AM -0700, mdean wrote:
> used by the masses.  After over a full year in reviewing the operations
> of the postgresql community, I sense a strong elitest mentality and an
> unwillingness to define and take care of customers.  A formula for failure.

Well, we don't really have customers; we have a community of users.
I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that the distinction there is
something that is in fact important to that community.  And before
you start lecturing me about the real world, how business works, &c.,
please know that I was one of the first major commercial users of
PostgreSQL to "come out of the closet".  I understand about corporate
ways of thinking.

That said, one of the _reasons_ I noted, in starting this thread, for
holding a developers' conference only every two years was an argument
provided me by elein: it's just easier on our community, who then
don't have to worry about the travel every year.  I don't think that
qualifies as "elitist".  I'm not sure what is supposed to be
"elitist" about PostgreSQL, unless you mean "rigid adherence to good
programming practices".  I wish more projects were so elitist.

A

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