Re: [pgsql-www] Milwaukee User Group

On 02/10/2014 01:01 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> John Graber escribió:
>
>> So, I looked into "PUG" in Milwaukee. We have a local user group for PHP
>> of 319 members, created in 2009, that uses "PUG".
>>
>> I absolutely understand why "PUG" would be preferable to some folks. And
>> this being community driven, I will *_absolutely_* go with it if that's the
>> consensus, now worries. But as for myself, I'd really like to
>> differentiate my merry band from other user groups in Milwaukee if
>> possible. :)
>>
>> Is anyone else willing to share some feedback? Thanks!
>
> As far as postgresql.org mailing lists are concerned, we typically
> assign names that have "PUG" somewhere supposedly because it's an
> acronym for "Postgres User Group". We try to go for more-or-less formal
> names using the city name and/or state two-letter code (for PUGs in the
> USA); in the last few years this has been followed more or less
> consistently, at least for US cities/states. We have always made
> exceptions, so I don't necessarily oppose to a name such as "BrewPUG"
> but I'd need some other American to confirm that this name actually
> makes sense, and somebody from some other part of the world that this
> isn't too insane.

It or the actual name desired, BrewPUB , makes complete sense to me.
From someone who has downed their fair share of Milwaukee brewed beers.

>
> In this list
> http://www.postgresql.org/list/group/6/
> you can see the PUG name by hovering over each link.
>
> BrewPUG doesn't sound so bad to me; at least it's not as bad as having
> given the "spug" name to a group that didn't ever get off the ground.
>

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