Re: What do we need for new PUGs?

On 03/04/2015 11:29 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Mar  4, 2015 at 11:24:18AM -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> We should feature the PUG events on the PostgreSQL website somewhere.  The
>> easiest way to do this would be to plug into Meetup / Google App calendar
>> feeds, a la what Planet does for blogs.  I have had to reject PUG events from
>> the regular events feed based on current policy (https://wiki.postgresql.org/
>> wiki/NewsEventsApproval#PostgreSQL_Conferences_.26_Events) but would love to
>> feature them and have them in its own section on the homepage / site.  This
>> would greatly help with exposure and help create more awareness about local
>> PUGs.
>
> One nice thing about Google+ is it supports live PUG video feeds --- in
> fact, there was one from Brazil yesterday.

Have you actually tried to use this?

After 2 dramatic failures, I gave up.  For one thing, G+ video won't
tell you when it's lost the connection to the server, so you think
everything's OK, and really the video stopped 20 minutes ago.

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Josh Berkus
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