Re: Inappropriate Events

There are 4 events posted on postgresql.org from a company that had
previously been warned about such postings. All 4 events are in the
month of October and profess to offer "free stuff", unrelated to
training (specifically prohibited by policy).

BTW, this particular company had been given a "final" warning by Josh B
some time ago...

PS. I originally replied to a (very) old thread about this, but the
realized that anyone using a threaded mail reader would be unlikely to
see it, hence this email.

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Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC 27560
919-463-0999/877-258-8987
http://www.otg-nc.com

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> There are 4 events posted on postgresql.org from a company that had
> previously been warned about such postings. All 4 events are in the
> month of October and profess to offer "free stuff", unrelated to
> training (specifically prohibited by policy).

Any reason not to be specific here when discussing events? Is this
the certfirst ones? They look fine to me. What free stuff
are you referring to in the posts?

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> There are 4 events posted on postgresql.org from a company that had
>> previously been warned about such postings. All 4 events are in the
>> month of October and profess to offer "free stuff", unrelated to
>> training (specifically prohibited by policy).
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> Any reason not to be specific here when discussing events? Is this
> the certfirst ones? They look fine to me. What free stuff
> are you referring to in the posts?
>
Yes. My other email was specific (in response to a previous thread). I
had previously been told by Josh B to not be specific (for litigation
reasons?)...

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Additionally, I believe Josh had previously emailed them indicating that
they were limited to posting no more than 2 events per quarter (in this
case, they've posted 4 in a single month)... Ref this thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2009-07/msg00161.php

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Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC 27560
919-463-0999/877-258-8987
http://www.otg-nc.com

On 9/8/09 11:56 AM, Chander Ganesan wrote:
> There are 4 events posted on postgresql.org from a company that had
> previously been warned about such postings. All 4 events are in the
> month of October and profess to offer "free stuff", unrelated to
> training (specifically prohibited by policy).

I've been looking over these listings, and so far they're OK. There is
a special offer, but it's buried after the course contents, rather than
being in the RSS feed. And CertFirst hasn't been flooding us with
events and crowding out other providers in the listings.

So I don't think it's a problem at this time. But do keep it in mind
for CertFirst submissions; if you start seeing free offers in the RSS
feed or 12 events being submitted at once, don't approve. Thanks!

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com