Re: about the european pug

Dave Page wrote:
> Hi Damien,
>
> damien(at)dalibo(dot)info wrote:
>
>> Organization
>> =============
>>
>> First point was about the legal status of the user group. It seems that
>> everyone agrees that the group must be a non-profit organization.
>> Furthermore it seems that among the different communities ( pgug.de, etc.
>> ) , very few have legal satus . As far as i know , the french speaking
>> community has created a non-profit association in 2004 and i think the
>> turkish has done something like that too (devrim ?)
>>
>> Some people discussed the idea that a local community association
>> could "upgrade" its status to embody the whole european community.
>> This is more or less what the mozilla guys have done. Mozilla Europe is a
>> non-profit association under the french law, devoted to promote Mozilla
>> stuff and help local communities all around Europe. But i'll talk more
>> about this in another e-mail. Stay tuned :-)
>
> Yes, specifically we spoke about PostgreSQLFR doing this - I think it
> was Jean-Paul who said he would look into what is required.
>
>> Website
>> =========
>>
>> Some people ( Andreas ?) are already working on postgresql.eu to bring the
>> domain back into the PG infrastructure.
>
> We've setup the first mailing list (obviously :-)), and Hans-Jurgen was
> working with Marc Fournier (who looks after much of the project
> infrastructure, including DNS) to transfer the domain name across.
>
> We can provision servers quite quickly as required.

In fact there is a dedicated VM for the postgresql.eu already in place ...

Stefan