Re: Reminder of PUGs posting policy to News and -announce

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:40:17PM -0800, Selena Marie Deckelmann wrote:
> [taking this off -www for a marketing discussion]
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > WWW and moderators,
> >
> >  As a reminder, in our approval policy:
> >  http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/NewsEventsApproval
> >
> >  We decided that PUGS would be entitled to post to -announce and /about/news
> >  for two kinds of meetings:
> >
> >  1. their very first meeting
> >  2. extra-special events like developer days
>
> Ok, that makes sense.  If all 15+ groups posted all their meeting
> announcements every month, it would probably double the traffic on
> -announce :)
>
> Do you have some suggestions for announcing the regional events? In
> the past, groups seem to fade into obscurity after a few months --
> even if they are meeting regularly. Posting only to the PUG lists I
> think misses out on a huge opportunity to contact people who are
> travelling, are new to PostgreSQL or didn't subscribe to their
> regional mailing lists because of some other reason (not necessarily
> because they never want to attend a meeting!).
>
> Mailing lists are still the most effective way to let people know
> about events (way better than blogs/rss/etc) -- and while some
> people *do* search for regional information, most do not. Am I
> missing another obvious place to post meeting announcements?

Well, there's the local section of the Postgres Weekly News, so we
could batch them up into weekly chunks :)

Cheers,
David.
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