Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Setting up for Press Contacts in SEAsia

+1 on that. I do anticipate that it will be useful to have individual email
boxes eventually (hopefully because our advocacy is working) and will need
individuals to handle each nation/language space but a single goto for now
is perfectly adequate.

-- Ben

On Jan 29, 2008 3:22 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

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> Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:
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> > On Monday 28 January 2008 13:48, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Robert, Benjamin,
> > >
> > > > Marc can set those up for you. Note we already have a chinese
> > > > press contact, you might want to drop him a line to see if you
> > > > can coordinate. For Thai, Malay, and Indonesia, I guess those
> > > > would be th@, my@, and id@ right? Which email(emails?) should
> > > > those forward to?
> > >
> > > Since they're all going to one person, I'd rather have a single
> > > e-mail box for them -- Benjamin doesn't need to clean out 3
> > > mailboxes from spam. Maybe seasia(at)postgresql(dot)org?
> > >
> >
> > I wonder if the cultural and language differences between the above
> > areas might cause future problems with a single email? Or if this
> > might be a problem for say, future Malay volunteers, who want to help
> > Benjamin with thier local area only?
> >
>
> Hmmm, yeah. South East Asia is a pretty big swatch of land and water. I
> agree that getting a bunch of different emails is probably not a good
> idea either. What if we just have an alias for his primary area and
> point the other regionals to him until the community shows more
> volunteers? Ala,
>
> South East Asia:
>
> Thailand - foo(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Malay - foo(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
> etc..
>
> Then when a particular region crops up with community we can just
> change the primary contact instead of having a global.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
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