Re: 20th anniversary of PostgreSQL ?

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:27:06PM +0100, Damien Clochard wrote:
>
> >
> >I am curious why you chose that date?  I always thought it was the
> >creation of the CVS tree on July 9, 1996.
> >
>
> Clearly I'm not familiar that part of PostgreSQL history but last
> year, Dave told me that the birthdate was the start of the online
> presence, which seems to be 22/10/1996 when Marc Fournier bought the
> postgresql.org domain.

Oh, the website.  OK, makes sense.

> I don't really care though. We can define the birthdate as July
> 9,1996. We can even avoid completely defining a specific date and
> simply state that "PostgreSQL was born in 1996". I don't think
> people really care what the date stands for anyway...
>
> To me the most important thing is to have a series of coordinated
> events and actions on a scheduled period. It can be in may, july or
> october... The only problem I see with July is that it's more
> difficult to organize events in the summer (at least in Europe)

Agreed.

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