Re: [MASSMAIL]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.


Preferable of july at decembre, by that 14 of december is the aniversary
of PostgreSQL-Cuba


Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
ETECSA, La Habana, Cuba