| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie(at)gmail(dot)com>, melanie(at)dunslane(dot)net |
| Subject: | Re: PGCon brand |
| Date: | 2009-01-12 17:44:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200901121244.06351.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Sunday 11 January 2009 15:15:43 Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> Personally, I only see one real problem of brand confusion with pgCon,
> and that's pgCon.us. I don't think that JD really wants to be confused
> with Dan, or vice-versa, so using the same name is counterproductive.
>
> Nobody is going to think that pgCon.BR has anything to do with Dan
> Langille, but if East started being called pgCon.US East it could cause
> some serious confusion for sponsors, attendees and speakers. So I think
> it benefits *both* conferences to use distinctively different names.
>
I agree, though I've always wondered if a better solution would be for Dan to
rename his conference as PGCan (which is a play on BSDCan, his other
conference, and would provide even more brand identity). Even before there
was a pgcon.us, people confused pgcon and postgresqlconference, because pgcon
is the "natural" shortnening of the longer name. If Dan did make that
switch, pgcon.org could be a generic site for any/all postgres conferences,
and pgcan.org could be the conference specific site. I'd guess with apache
rewrite magic, we might be able to keep url breakage to a minimum.
--
Robert Treat
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