Re: Proposal for a PostgreSQL Print Magazine
От | Robert Bernier |
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Тема | Re: Proposal for a PostgreSQL Print Magazine |
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Msg-id | 1300152640.11357.2.camel@Nokia-N900-51-1 обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Proposal for a PostgreSQL Print Magazine (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Instead of a print publication, what about an electronic one designed for android phones? Robert Bernier ----- Original message ----- > On 3/10/11 2:53 PM, damien clochard wrote: > > I think that would be great to have a print media to keep in touch with > > this large user base, because these are the folks that will recommend > > PostgreSQL to their clients, co-workers, directors, etc. > > Everything else being equal, this is a cool idea. > > However, the biggest issue for this is getting enough writers. We don't > have that many people in our community who can write well, and those we > do have, have multiple demands for writing on their time (I myself am > backlogged a couple months for two publications). > > Realistically, we'd need to pay writers as well as the editor and the > editor/translators. It is unclear on how we would do this initially; > SPI has a precedent of not paying for people's time, and US, EU and JP > only pay for things in their respective countries. Once we had regular > publication, we could solicit donations from advertisers. > > I'd think that 3 to 4 issues per year would be sufficient. > > To sum up, the drawbacks to doing this are: > a) would take writing time away from general publications which reach > new users > b) printing costs/waste > c) unclear on how to pay for the first issue > d) currently no volunteer as editor > > The advantages are: > e) nice piece of swag for conferences > f) gets writing done which can be reused for other portions of > PostgreSQL.org (i.e. case studies) > g) potential new source of fundraising > > An alternative option to all of the above would be some kind of fund to > get people to write articles for PWN, which already gets published > regularly and has international translation. Then the last weeks' issue > could simply be cleaned up and formatted just before each conference. > > -- > -- Josh Berkus > PostgreSQL Experts Inc. > http://www.pgexperts.com > > -- > Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy
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