Good morning! I agree that the mailing lists, while originally useful, have now been supplanted by Meetup (etc.); certainly, the Atlanta PUG has been shifted over (and mailing list can be archived and deleted at this point) to a Meetup that Moshe Jacobson's now running. (Related: It looks like the link to pg_atl on http://www.postgresql.org/community/user-groups/ is incorrect.)
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
Folks,
First, excuse the cross-posting; the reason for it will be come clear.
It has been the custom of the PostgreSQL project to give mailing lists to new PostgreSQL User Groups (PUGs) for them to use to coordinate meetings. Lately, though, it's become apparent that those lists are not being used[1], and the sysadmin team is justifiably reluctant to create lists which are dead-on-arrival.
So the question becomes: if what new PUGs need for infrastructure is not new mailing lists, then what do they need?
Infrastructure we could possibly supply would include:
* Meetup.com accounts * Google Apps/Calendar accounts * Blog + RSS * Mailing lists anyway * Something else
If you currently run a PUG, used to run a PUG, or are thinking of starting a PUG, please explain what online infrastructure would *really* help you get the PUG started or run your existing PUG, and why. And then we'll look at ways to supply that.
I'm especially looking for some feedback here from our *international* audience; what works in the USA will be different from what works elsewhere.