Re: Anybody here?

Hey,

Anyone home? Justin?

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Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Anyone home? Justin?

Hi Josh,

:)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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Justin,

Who else is here? You don't need my introduction, but here it goes:

Hi! I'm Josh Berkus. I've been using PostgreSQL professionally for over 2
years, and I've been the Marketing Lead for the OpenOffice.org project for
the last year-and-a-half.

I'd like to help out with Postgres Advocacy, particularly dealing with the
Press, which I enjoy in a masochistic kinda way.

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Josh Berkus wrote:
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> Justin,
>
> Who else is here? You don't need my introduction, but here it goes:

Um, Bruce Momjian is here. Robert Treat is here, Shridhar Daithankar
should have confirmed his subscription to pgsql-advoacy by now, a couple
of others at least too.

:)

> Hi! I'm Josh Berkus. I've been using PostgreSQL professionally for over 2
> years, and I've been the Marketing Lead for the OpenOffice.org project for
> the last year-and-a-half.

And doing a decent job too. :)

> I'd like to help out with Postgres Advocacy, particularly dealing with the
> Press, which I enjoy in a masochistic kinda way.

Hey, that's my Gig! :-p

Heh Heh Heh

For a different tact, am thinking we should probably start organising
language-specific contacts. Not country based ones at the moment (am
pretty sure things aren't ready for that just yet), but definitely
language based ones.

After launching the Advocacy site, within about 72 hours we had offers
to translated it into German, French, Polish, Finnish, Brazilian
Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, and another I think (exactly which is
eluding me just now).

Thoughts?

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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> -Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
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who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
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On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:58, Justin Clift wrote:
> After launching the Advocacy site, within about 72 hours we had offers
> to translated it into German, French, Polish, Finnish, Brazilian
> Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, and another I think (exactly which is
> eluding me just now).
>
> Thoughts?
>

I thought I saw someone (you?) post that you had a spanish translator.
If you don't and we can't find one, I could probably do it, though I am
not a native speaker.

Robert Treat

Robert Treat wrote:
<snip>
> I thought I saw someone (you?) post that you had a spanish translator.
> If you don't and we can't find one, I could probably do it, though I am
> not a native speaker.

Just checked. :)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> is the Spanish volunteer. There
are about 220 lines that need to be translated from English to Spanish
for the present version of the site.

Perhaps you'd like to co-ordinate with Alvaro in the translation of the
text strings?

The Web-based interface to update text strings directory into the
database is mostly in place too, but needs a bit more finesse before
it'll be ready for general usage.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> Robert Treat

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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi

Justin,

> For a different tact, am thinking we should probably start organising
> language-specific contacts. Not country based ones at the moment (am
> pretty sure things aren't ready for that just yet), but definitely
> language based ones.

Oh, do I gotta? I hoped that I left that behind at OpenOffice.org ...

> After launching the Advocacy site, within about 72 hours we had
> offers
> to translated it into German, French, Polish, Finnish, Brazilian
> Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, and another I think (exactly which is
> eluding me just now).
>
> Thoughts?

Not much to begin with ... just create a mailing list:
pgsql-advocacy-lang(at)postgresql(dot)org
... all translators will subscribe to that mailing list, and we'll post
announcements of new website text there.

Unless you can come up with a more sophisticated web-based system, in
which users can browse items needing to be translated, "check them
out", download them, and the upload + update them.

Also, BTW, we'd better have an press release for version 7.3. MySQL is
plowing us under, mainly because they have a marketing dept and we
don't ... yet. They're getting accolades for implementing features
that we had 2 years ago. We need to toot our own horn ... loud.

-Josh Berkus

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Who else is here? You don't need my introduction, but here it goes:

I'm here. Among other fairly modest claims to fame, I wrote about
half of this:

<http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/questions-to-applicants-13.htm#Response13TheInternetSocietyISOC>

A

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