Re: Major French companies officially asking sofware vendors to support PostgreSQL

On 7 Dec 2017, at 14:57, Jean-Paul Argudo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Justin,
> Le jeudi 07 décembre 2017 à 14:11 +0000, Justin Clift a écrit :
>> On 7 Dec 2017, at 07:13, Damien Clochard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The French PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group, a non-profit
>>> organization advocating for the adoption and use of PostgreSQL,
>>> just published an open letter to all software vendors that don’t
>>> already do so to take steps to support PostgreSQL as a database
>>> management system (DBMS).
>>> 
>>> The ambition of this initiative is to incite them to adapt quickly
>>> to the irresistible IT transformation in progress in public and
>>> private companies.
>>> 
>>> Created in 2016, the PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group (
>>> called “Groupe de Travail Inter-Entreprise” or “GT Entreprise” in
>>> French) is a dedidacted task force inside the PostgreSQLFr non-
>>> profit association (https://www.postgresql.fr/asso/). Over the last
>>> months,it has grown remarkably.
>>> 
>>> In a new press release published yesterday, the workgroup sent an
>>> open letter to software vendors asking them officially to support
>>> PostgreSQL.
>>> 
>>> * Original version :
>>> <https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/20171206_lettre_ouverte_aux_
>>> editeurs_de_logiciels>
>>> 
>>> * English translation :
>>> <https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/english>
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> Awesome. :)
> 
> Indeed :-)
> 
>> This seems like the kind of thing that should go on the PostgreSQL
>> website's "News" section.  Well, the English translation of it, as
>> the .org website is English focused.
> 
> Definitely +1
> 
> But Damien, as the President of PostgreSQLFr NPO will answer this. He
> may have more information on it.
> 
>> 
>> Also - very minor - there's a typo on the first sentence of the
>> English
>> page:
>> 
>>  https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/english
>> 
>> "... is a dedidacted task force ..." ← dedicated is spelled wrong. ;)
>> 
>> For press release's, it's probably worth fixing though.  First
>> impression
>> stuff, etc. ;)
>> 
>> Out of curiosity, how much time and effort has it taken to get the
>> French
>> PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group up and running?  Sounds like a
>> lot.
> 
> This depends a lot on what has to be counted.
> 
> This cross-enterprise group was created around november 2016,
> officially, after we talk a lot of it some months before. Since then,
> we all try to convince users (and, let's say, customers also) to join
> this group. It's composed only of users. No IT services companies are
> allowed to join. Under PGFR's NPO, the independancy of the group is
> guaranteed. Also, Damien from PGFR and Simon from SNCF have to be
> rewarded a lot for the time and efforts they put in this.
> 
> But the tree would never have grown without lots of people efforts
> here, includling translators, coders, users, simple DBAs giving time
> and efforts... to plant the seeds, years ago! 
> 
> And a special founder is surely Bruce that put some pressure on us to
> launch PostgreSQL.fr in ~2004. That was a great idea ;-)

Awesome.  It's a real, proper, user consortium.  Those things take
*time*, so very, very well done. :)

+ Justin

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