Re: The Italian PostgreSQL Users Group is finally a non profit organisation

[Ishikawa Toshiyuki <tosiyuki ( at ) gol ( dot ) com>]

Congratulazioni e conplimenti dal Giappone!

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Ishikawa

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:48:13 +0100
Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele ( dot ) bartolini ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com> wrote:

> Ciao,
> 
>    I am really proud to announce that last Saturday, 17 november 2007, 
> the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group has been founded by twelve volunteers 
> and that today the non-profit organisation has been officially registered.
> 
>    As far as I know, this is the second non-profit organisation entirely 
> dedicated to PostgreSQL ever to be founded in Europe - after the great 
> French one (I might be wrong though, in that case please correct me).
> 
>    As the statute of the association says, the main aim of IT-PUG is the 
> social promotion of the PostgreSQL RDBMS in Italy, through the 
> organisation of projects, events, conferences, courses and initiative 
> oriented towards:
> 
>     * community (users and developers)
>     * business companies
>     * public organisations
>     * schools and universities
> 
>    The non profit organisation is based on principles such as freedom, 
> democracy and volunteering, and the participation is open to every 
> Italian citizen or resident (the association is everyone's). The statute 
> has been collaboratively written by all the founders of the association.
> 
>    This process has taken a few months and has been the natural produce 
> of PGDay. Most of the founders indeed took part in the organisation of 
> the biggest gathering of the PostgreSQL community ever to be held in 
> Europe (so far). ;-)
> 
>    Although IT-PUG is still in its startup phase, users can find some 
> information (including the statute - in Italian) on the website: 
> www.itpug.org . Hopefully soon IT-PUG will be ready to accept 
> subscriptions online as well.
> 
> Ciao,
> Gabriele
> 
> -- 
> Gabriele Bartolini: Open source programmer and data architect
> Current Location: Prato, Tuscany, Italy
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> 
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