Re: Should Webinars be training events?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:08 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> We're getting quite a few submissions in /events for webinars for
>> various PostgreSQL-associated companies and topics.  I'm just not sure,
>> as a moderator, whether:
>>
>> a) company webinars should be bounced as too corporate, or
>> b) should be regular events, or
>> c) should be training events.
>>
>> For the kind of event I'm talking about, see this description, which is
>> typical:
>>
>> ==============
>> Event: Webinar: Achieving database high availability in 15 minutes with
>> Tungsten
>> Training event: No
>> Location: City: Web-based, State: , Country: United States
>> Summary:
>>
>> Database downtime is one of the most common reasons for application
>> failures. Unfortunately, not every product billed as an HA solution
>> solves the whole problem. Tungsten clusters are packed with features
>> that address database downtime efficiently and are easy to deploy. In 15
>> minutes, in fact.
>> ==============
>>
>> I'm really honestly not sure what to do with these kinds of events.
>> Seems to me we want to list them, but where?
>
> That isn't training. I have no problem with E-Training being a training
> event but ... 15 minutes is a marketing slide.

Yep.

...Robert