Re: PostgreSQL Magazine #00 is out ! Send feedback please !

On 6/9/2011 1:38 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 6/9/11 12:58 AM, damien clochard wrote:
>> My intention is provide advocacy material to local user groups in the
>> form of a classy and eye-catching magazine. I've been behind a
>> PostgreSQL booth more than once, and i've always been disappointed by
>> the quality of promotional leaflets and flyers we were giving.
>> Especially compared to level of what you can find for other RDBMS booth.
> Right, so you missed the point that the magazine needs to be easy/cheap
> to print everywhere, or it doesn't get distributed at all.

I think this is an unfortunate misstatement. Just because it doesn't get
distributed in the states doesn't mean it doesn't get distributed at
all. The Non-US community is much larger than the US Community. Also
Electronic format is going to be by far, the preferred format for most
people.

> I'm not asking you to reformat the magazine as US Letter. I'm asking
> you to allow others to do so, without pitching a fit that they're
> messing up your magazine. And the reason I asked for a volunteer to
> reformat is that my desire is to have a US Letter layout which looks as
> good as the current A4 layout, rather than something which has huge
> awkward margins and text shrunk 10%.

1. He is the one doing the work, if he wants to pitch a fit he can.
2. I haven't seen anything but a willingness to work with, for and about
the community from Damien. I am not sure why you are responding this
way. He has been very open about this magazine, this is not easy work.

JD