From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bob Zurek <bob(dot)zurek(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: postgresql publication ---> was "Re: New MySQL Journal" |
Date: | 2007-07-31 18:48:18 |
Message-ID: | 20070731184818.GB17694@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:06:37AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm personally dubvious about the advisability of having our own
> Journal vs. having regular articles in other people's publications.
> I don't think that we have so many writers in the community that
> doing a PostgreSQL journal wouldn't rob Linux magazines, sysadmin
> magazines, blogs, oreillynet etc. of content.
Part of the trouble is that those qualified to write are also pretty
busy.
> If we think we have untapped writers, I'd rather push them to
> contribute to these publications, which will reach people who aren't
> PG users or have even heard of PG rather than the faithful. This
> would be especially the case with and online-only Journal, which
> nobody would stumble across on the newsstand by accident.
>
> I'd also be nervous about doing anything with SYS-CON Media given
> their rather tainted reputation in the OSS community.
Could you elucidate this a bit?
Cheers,
David.
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