Re: about the european pug

[Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan ( at ) kaltenbrunner ( dot ) cc>]

Dave Page wrote:
> Hi Damien,
>
> damien ( at ) dalibo ( dot ) info wrote:
>
> > Organization
> > =============
> >
> > First point was about the legal status of the user group. It seems that
> > everyone agrees that the group must be a non-profit organization.
> > Furthermore it seems that among the different communities ( pgug.de, etc.
> > ) , very few have legal satus . As far as i know , the french speaking
> > community has created a non-profit association in 2004 and i think the
> > turkish has done something like that too (devrim ?)
> >
> > Some people discussed the idea that a local community association
> > could "upgrade" its status to embody the whole european community.
> > This is more or less what the mozilla guys have done. Mozilla Europe is a
> > non-profit association under the french law, devoted to promote Mozilla
> > stuff and help local communities all around Europe. But i'll talk more
> > about this in another e-mail. Stay tuned :-)
>
> Yes, specifically we spoke about PostgreSQLFR doing this - I think it
> was Jean-Paul who said he would look into what is required.
>
> > Website
> > =========
> >
> > Some people ( Andreas ?) are already working on postgresql.eu to bring the
> > domain back into the PG infrastructure.
>
> We've setup the first mailing list (obviously :-)), and Hans-Jurgen was
> working with Marc Fournier (who looks after much of the project
> infrastructure, including DNS) to transfer the domain name across.
>
> We can provision servers quite quickly as required.

In fact there is a dedicated VM for the postgresql.eu already in place ...


Stefan