Re: speakers mailing list

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 10:01 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On mån, 2009-11-09 at 12:17 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > This works for CFPs. What it doesn't work for is "I'm running a
> > Django
> > 1-day event in St. Louis, we were wondering if you could help us find
> > a
> > PostgreSQL speaker". It's not clear where those folks should go
> > except
> > -advocacy, and of course they don't want to *subscribe* to adovocacy.
>
> Whatever problem these people would have with the advocacy list now they
> would also have with a speakers list. So fix the problem with the
> advocacy list.
>

There is more to it than that. The advocacy list is global. Most people
are looking for geographically strategic speakers and only want to go
global if they have to.

We need to be encouraging speakers from first the local user groups,
then the larger regions and then from the international pool.

Most people want nothing to do with the -advocacy list for a number of
reasons, some of them aren't fixable within the list itself.

Joshua D. Drake

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