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New github account

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:49:38 UT

Hi,

Until now, the PostgreSQL Magazine source files were stores in a git
reposiroty hosted on my personal github account.

I've created a new "pgmag" organization on github and transfered the
pgmag repo to this account : [link]

This new account will make collaboration easier.

New design for the website

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:17:07 UT

Hi guys,

It's been a while since my last e-mail on this list. The pgmag has been
asleep for a few month mostly due to my lack of free time. Things are
changing and I'm ready to prepare the issue #02. More news about that in
the forthcoming days.

Befor starting anything, my first move was to upgrade the website (which

Website maintenance scheduled

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:45:53 UT

Hi,

FYI : The pgmag.org website is hosted on a Linux box in Paris. This
machine will be moved to another datacenter in a few hours. The website
may not be available between 31/10/2012 02h00 AM CEST and 31/10/2012
08h00 AM CEST.

I will send another message when everything is back on line.

PostgreSQL Magazine now available in Chinese

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:36:34 UT

Hi,

I am quite happy to announce the release of PostgreSQL Magazine in
Chinese, thanks to the tremendous work of the Chinese translators team,
namely Wilson Guam and Scott Siu.

As for the English version you can either read it online, download the
PDF or buy a print copy. Just click on the links below.

Has anybody ever used Peecho ?

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:05:24 UT

Hi,

For people who want ot buy a print copy of the magazine, we're using
lulu.com online printing services.

However I'm not quite happy with it because there's been some printing
errors in the past. Moreover the whole service is designed to publish
books not magazines, which make the publishing more difficult.

epub

marc.hani...@googlemail.com (Marc Hanisch) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:11:19 UT

Hello,
I would be interested in creating an epub-version of the PostgreSQL
Magazine. Any objection?
Best regards,
Marc

We need proofreaders for the PG Mag Chinese Edition

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:31:12 UT

Hi guys,

First of all, let me just say that the PGMag Chinese translation team
rocks :)

In a few months, they have achieved the translation and the layout
editing of the two first editions of magazine. (issue #00 and issue #01)

While I have no doubt about the quality of their work, I must admit that

Free copies at PGCon

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:07:30 UT

hi !

I'm pleased to announce that 200 copies of pgmag-01 were printed and
shipped to PGCon in Ottawa. Each attendee of the conference will receive
a free copy of the magazine.

This was made possible thanks to the support of EnterpriseDB, who is the
printing sponsor of this "PGCon edition". Thanks a lot to them.

Stats over the last 15 days

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:37:14 UT

It's been 15 days since the release of pgmag-01. I thought I should give
you some figures :)

So here's what happen during the last 15 days :

* 300+ new followers on twitter
* 200+ new subscribers to our newsletter
* 16100+ unique visitors on pgmag.org
* 25000+ unique page viewed
* 6400+ pdf downloads ([link])

Issue 02 : Brain Storm

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:51:43 UT

Hi everyone,

I know the issue #01 is just released but we need to think about the
next edition right now.

The plan is to release a 36 pages edition before october 1st, 2012.
Once again we'll have Cedric Gemy helping us for the layout and graphic
design.

There are obvious topics that we need to talk about like PostGIS 2.0 and

Fwd: Use pdf.js for online version

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:17:36 UT

Hi !

A reader sent the message below, pointing us Mozilla HTML5 PDF reader as
a replacement of the current flash online reader.

Does anyone here has experience with this ? Any idea of how this could
be plugged into the current dokuwiki website ?

I probably won't have time to look into this in the forthcoming month.

Print On Demand (POD) web services

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:25:40 UT

Hi,

I'm currently working to release the first issue on a Print On Demand
platform.

Last year, I published the demo issue on lulu.com but it's more
appropriate for books and it's a bit expensive. Right now, I'm trying
magcloud.com which also have some limitations.

I'm quite new to this... So do you know other self-publishing services

PostgreSQL Magazine Article

jrmroll...@aol.com (j.rolland) — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:26:25 UT

Hello,
I hold first of all has to congratulate you for the birth on PostgreSQL
magazine,
like for the quality of his contents.

I would wish to subject a tutorial/article on PostGIS 2.0 and data storage IFC
(Industry Foundation Class) in a format 3D.
You can have a look in my blog :A GeoSpatial World<[link]>

Translation process

sz...@gmx.at (Sebastian Wagner) — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:22:08 UT

Hi all,

I consider translating the magazine to german as there's no German
translation team yet. I took a look at the translation process
<[link]>, the procedure described there
really shocked my. Do I really have to translate 323 single files
one-by-one? And the even more shocking information is that one: /"Now

Issue 01 : Release !

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:47:19 UT

Hi all,

I've launched the first announcements on some postgresql.org mailing
list. I will continue send the news during the week to various website
and lists.

You can help me and spread the word to your friends, your followers and
anyone that could be interested.

If you blog/tweet/post the news somewhere, please edit the page below to

Issue #01 : Prepress proofing

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:54:31 UT

Here's the prepress proofing file to be printed and shipped to PGCon
2012, thanks to EnterpriseDB.

Beware ! the file is huge (186Mo), the download may take a while:

[link]

If you have anything to say, this is your very last chance.

Nudity

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:19:42 UT

Just a quick message to say that I've decided to remove the image on
page 12 ( [link] ).

I have great difficulties to understand how this could be considered as
NSFW... However I clearly understand that we don't have time to argue on
this :-)

The offensive cartoon will be replaced by :

Last Check !

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:47:13 UT

Here we go !
Here's the first beta :
[link]
Please take some time to read it and report any error you can spot in
the content and in the graphic layout.
You have 6 days to report errors on this page :
[link]
Next thursday, we will fix the last glitches and the issue will be

Issue #01 : Prepare for the last check !

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:45:49 UT

Hi,
The reviewing is over and the layout design is almost done !
We should be able to publish here a "beta" version on friday.
Then you will 5 days to read it and spot the last errors that remain.
The official release date is may 1st.
Stay tuned !

Reviewing : Final rush

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:11:38 UT

Hi guys,
We started the layout editing process last Friday and we should be ready
to release by the end of the month !
However we still need some help from reviewers ! There's 11 articles
waiting on the list here :
[link]
Each article is very small and should only take a few minutes of your time.

We want to create a Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese Translation Team.

scott....@enterprisedb.org.cn (Scott Siu) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:58:00 UT

Dear PostgreSQL Magazine,
I am Scott Siu,One of the initiator of the China PostgreSQL User
Group and China EnterpriseDB User Group .Now serveing as the technical
director of Beijing Focus-Soft Technology Co., Ltd., Our company is the
Distributor of EnterpriseDB of China (including Chinese Mainland,Taiwan,

5 more wiki pages to review / the last 12 coming soon

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:23:18 UT

Hi,
The 4 articles I submitted earlier are fully reviewed. Thanks to all the
reviewers !
Now here's 5 more !
* Elephants and Lions (Postgres on MAC OSX)
* PG 9.1 : introduction
* PG 9.1 : SQL/MED
* PG 9.1 : Per column collation
* PG 9.1 : Unlogged tables
Please focus on the PG 9.1 pages !
Note that the article about PG 9.1 will contain 12 pages ! So I split

Sponsoring PostgreSQL Magazine for PGCON 2012

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:39:46 UT

Hi,
Below is a sponsorship proposition to send copies of the magazine at
PGCon in May. Please forward this message to any organization that you
think would be interested by helping us.
-------------------
In 2011, we released a "demo issue" that was distributed in several
conferences such as PGCon 2011, PG Open 2011, PG Conf Europe 2011,

Help from PG Europe and SPI

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:14:19 UT

Hi all,
Last month, I sent a message to this list to explain that I would have
enough time to do the Layout design of next 2 issues of PG Magazine. I
wanted to focus on the content and was looking for someone to help us
with the graphic design, which consist in desktop publishing using Scribus.
For more details about this, please read :

Registration bug

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:47:15 UT

Hi;
We moved the pgmag website to another linux server last month, and since
then the email notifications ceased to work... So if you registered to
the wiki before 10 AM CEST today, you may not have received your password.
I fixed the bug just a few minutes ago and tried to re-send all the
passwords. This may take a few minutes. If you tried to register and

Let's start reviewing the issue #01 !

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:44:04 UT

Hi all,
ok let's go ! I'm still waiting for some articles but we can start
reviewing the one who are ready.
Here's the list of the current state of the review :
[link]
For now, we have 4 articles ready to be proof-read :
* Interview : Stefan Kaltenbrunner
* Opinion : Money in Open Source, funding PostgreSQL features

Prepare yourself to review PostgreSQL Magazine #01

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:55:05 UT

Hey,
As we missed the january deadline, the new target is to release
PostgreSQL Magazine #01 before PG Con, which means we need have to do
the layout in April, which means we need to review the articles in March.
This is a call to every people that want to help the magazine ! In a few
days, I'll be launching the reviewing process.

Free Copies in Europe

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:37:48 UT

Hi,
Just a few words to let you know that a bunch of copies of the issue #00
were distributed last week :
* Approx. 100 copies were given at PostgreSQL Session #3 in Paris on
Feb 2nd
* More the 400 copies were given at FOSDEM, in Brusssels on Feb 4-5
All these copies were printed and shipped by PostgreSQL Europe.

Need Help with the Layout Editing

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:14:03 UT

Hi guys,
As you may have noticed the issue #01 of PostgreSQL Magazine is still a
work in progress. The initial target event was FOSDEM 2012, but we
couldn't make. New target is now PGCon 2012 in may.
This is mostly my fault as I'm trying to be the content editor and
layout editor at the same times. These two activities require a lot of

website maintenance planned on Sunday 22th

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:13:48 UT

Hi everyone,
The PostgreSQL Magazine website (pgmag.org) needs to be moved on a newer
and more powerful linux server. This operation will be done next Sunday.
The website will be down during a few minutes....
Some quick news about the next issue : we're a bit late on schedule
because we're waiting for some content ( mostly the interview and the

Content Editing

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:40:46 UT

Hi !
In a previous e-mail, I asked for help for the "content editing" part.
I realize that i have not defined what I mean by that and this job may
not be well-known for people who don't how the press media works.
In a nutshell, the content editor is the link between the writer of an
article and the layout editor. He receives the text from the writer and

New Sponsor : Fotolia.com

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:41:09 UT

Hi,
I'm very pleased to announced that Fotolia has offered us an unlimited
subscription to their daily subscription plan. More details here :
[link]
This is a tremendous gift as it will have a strong impact on the magazine :
a/ The layout designer (me) will not have to spend literally hours

Issue #01 : Brainstorming is over... Let's start editing !

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:32:46 UT

Hi guys,
The brainstorming for the next issue of PostgreSQL Magazine is now
officially over :-)
The result can be found here :
[link]
Thanks to everyone who gave ideas and comments !
I've set a page layout here :
[link]
Please let me know what you think of it : what about the ordering, the

Brainstorm for issue #01 !

dam...@dalibo.info (damien clochard) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:27:48 UT

Hi guys,
Before doing anything on the first issue of the magazine, let's ask this
most basic question : "What do we want to talk about ?"
If created a wiki page on the website and started to add a bunch of
ideas...
[link]
Please do the same and tell us what are the event, news or topics that

Hello World !

cont...@pgmag.org (PostgreSQL Magazine) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:44:48 UT

this is a test :)