Re: Mirroring PostgreSQL related content

["Jim Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>]

From: Michael Dean [mailto:mdean(at)sourceview(dot)com]
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > After seeing reports of some very interesting sounding articles that
> > were hosted elsewhere are now 404...
> >
> > Do we make any efforts to mirror the content of PostgreSQL related
> > stories or articles? Presumably this would require 
> contacting authors
> > for permission, but perhaps we can find some enthusiastic 
> newbies to do
> > that...
> >   
> As a marketing type guy who has eschewed his graduate statistical & 
> demographic training, I would be glad to work on anything 
> that smacks at 
> improving the overall image of postgresql in the world.  A 
> compendium of 
> articles documenting "everything" would be one decent suggestion, 
> especially since many of them are written under the creative 
> commons.  A 
> second suggestion is compiling a list of user applications 
> that not only 
> work with postgresql, but is their apparent favorite.  For instance, 
> bitweaver.org, where installation is trivial, as opposed to 
> drupal.org, 
> where postgresql appears to work, but installation is not only 
> non-trivial but fraught with political issues.  Let me know the 
> appropriate mechanism for starting this.  Michael

Well, the first appropriate mechanism would be to include the list in your replies. ;)

I suspect gathering available data would be a good start. I don't know that we'd want to prominently publish stuff in a raw format, but at least then we'd know what we're working with. I think it'd be very cool to have a site that documents OSS that supports PostgreSQL.

Anyone else have other ideas/suggestions?

You might want to take a look at the directory we started at Pervasive (http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/postgresql/pgd/, any additions most welcome!). Also, if you (or anyone else) is interested in writing articles, whitepapers, etc, etc, we'll both provide assistance and money for your effort: http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/postgresql/partners_in_publishing.asp