>
> I am curious why you chose that date? I always thought it was the
> creation of the CVS tree on July 9, 1996.
>
Clearly I'm not familiar that part of PostgreSQL history but last year,
Dave told me that the birthdate was the start of the online presence,
which seems to be 22/10/1996 when Marc Fournier bought the
postgresql.org domain.
I don't really care though. We can define the birthdate as July 9,1996.
We can even avoid completely defining a specific date and simply state
that "PostgreSQL was born in 1996". I don't think people really care
what the date stands for anyway...
To me the most important thing is to have a series of coordinated events
and actions on a scheduled period. It can be in may, july or october...
The only problem I see with July is that it's more difficult to organize
events in the summer (at least in Europe)
Regards,
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Damien Clochard