PostgreSQL Advocacy - Release dateline :-(

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Release dateline :-(

Josh Berkus

2005-09-19, 8:25 pm

Folks,

Unfortunately, it seems Businesswire and Reuters haven't caught on to the
idea of stateless internet entities yet.

So, we *will* have to put a city on the release.

I can see a couple of possibilities:
New York, NY -- like last year, this is the dateline for news that doesn't
really have a location, and will probably get stripped out.

Sydney, Australia or:
Tokyo, Japan -- the 8.1 release, as promised, will go out first on
Australia/Japan time. So it might be appropriate to use one of those.

Philadelphia, PA or San Francisco, CA -- the locations of the two primary
US press contacts.

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Marc G. Fournier

2005-09-19, 8:25 pm

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Unfortunately, it seems Businesswire and Reuters haven't caught on to the
> idea of stateless internet entities yet.
>
> So, we *will* have to put a city on the release.
>
> I can see a couple of possibilities:
> New York, NY -- like last year, this is the dateline for news that doesn't
> really have a location, and will probably get stripped out.
>
> Sydney, Australia or:
> Tokyo, Japan -- the 8.1 release, as promised, will go out first on
> Australia/Japan time. So it might be appropriate to use one of those.

I think that Tokyo, Japan would be a cool tag line ...

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Robert Treat

2005-09-19, 8:25 pm

On Monday 19 September 2005 16:20, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> I think that Tokyo, Japan would be a cool tag line ...
>

Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, Florida.
:-)

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Welty, Richard

2005-09-19, 8:25 pm

Robert Treat writes:

>Tokyo? that's been done to death... lets go with Gainesville, Florida.

more options:

Waldo, Florida
Clums Corners, New York
Podunk, Iowa (classic, but actually exists)
Picayune, Mississippi (my cousin grady was once mayor of picayune)

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Brian Kilpatrick

2005-09-19, 8:25 pm

what bout http://www.elephantbuttecoc.com/

Elephant Butte NM? :)

On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Welty, Richard wrote:

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> Robert Treat writes:
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> more options:
>
> Waldo, Florida
> Clums Corners, New York
> Podunk, Iowa (classic, but actually exists)
> Picayune, Mississippi (my cousin grady was once mayor of
> picayune)
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Bruce Momjian

2005-09-20, 3:24 am

You are missing the obvious:

New Orleans, LA

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Brian Kilpatrick wrote:
> what bout http://www.elephantbuttecoc.com/
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> Elephant Butte NM? :)
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> On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Welty, Richard wrote:
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Richard P. Welty

2005-09-20, 3:24 am

On Sep 19, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

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> You are missing the obvious:
>
> New Orleans, LA

my joke was that as long as something that meaningless
was a requirement, we should flip through small towns
with mildly silly names.

however, a more subtle form of the joke would be to take a
list of cities associated with companies that are strong
supporters (of which Tokyo would probably count, for SRA if not
for Fujitsu as well) and flip through those.

as for New Orleans, i think too many people would react negatively
to that, even if intended as a tribute rather than a subtly "off"
joke (i was worried about whether my mention of Picayune was over
the line, but i guess no one else on this list is aware of how close
Picayune is to new orleans and that as such the place is a little
roughed up itself right now.)

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Greg Sabino Mullane

2005-09-20, 3:24 am

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> more options:

> Waldo, Florida

Actually, Gainesville is right down the road from Waldo. The latter is a
very, very small town, known most for being a speedtrap on the trip
from Gainesville to Jacksonville.

Seriously, Gainesville has the highest concentration of PostgreSQL
developers than any other city except for Philadelphia and
Toronto. :p

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Merlin Moncure

2005-09-20, 7:24 am

> what bout http://www.elephantbuttecoc.com/
>
> Elephant Butte NM? :)
>
>
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLL
GOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLL
LANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, Wales

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Jim C. Nasby

2005-09-20, 8:24 pm

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:54:43AM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Actually, Gainesville is right down the road from Waldo. The latter is a
> very, very small town, known most for being a speedtrap on the trip
> from Gainesville to Jacksonville.
>
> Seriously, Gainesville has the highest concentration of PostgreSQL
> developers than any other city except for Philadelphia and
> Toronto. :p

The heck with concentration. I think we should make use of our new GiST
features; put lat/long for all developers in a database, and find the
geographic centroid; then use the city closest to that.

Or we could use....

Skokie, IL; I sang in a barbershop quartet there
Antarctica; Hey, it's cool down here! Just watch out for penguin dropings
Hawaii; Our database is so good you'll have plenty of time for a vacation
Uppsala, Sweeden; akin to how Sun flew a big banner over Dell :>
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Welty, Richard

2005-09-21, 11:24 am

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>The heck with concentration. I think we should make use of our new GiST
>features; put lat/long for all developers in a database, and find the
>geographic centroid; then use the city closest to that.

or just "Earth's Core, Earth"

cheers,
richard

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