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Policies for Approving PostgreSQL.org Front Page News & Events
General Rules
The www.postgresql.org home page contains News and Events listings which are maintained entirely for the benefit of the PostgreSQL community. As this space would be quite valuable (up to $400 per listing) if commercially available, our admins have the authority to be restrictive about what they allow on the home page.
All News and Events (including Training Events) to be approved must include the following information:
- Accurate contact information
- A descriptive title which distinguishes the item from similar items
- A 10 to 25 word summary of the item which provides enough information to clearly let RSS readers know if they want more information.
- A description of the news or event which clearly explains what it is and how it relates to PostgreSQL.
Other General Rules include:
- All items must relate to PostgreSQL in some direct and obvious way.
- Link-only events or news will never be acceptable.
- The WWW admin group of the PostgreSQL project may permanently ban any organization which is the cause of substantiated complaints about accuracy, ethics or legality from members of our community.
- The WWW team makes no promises about timely approval of announcements. If publication on a specific day is critical to you, you will need to contact the pgsql-www mailing list or a core team member prior to the submission.
Approving News
All News policy below is considered to apply equally to the home page and pgsql-announce, except that pgsql-announce also carries PWN.
PostgreSQL Core News
All items will be approved unless inaccurate. The following types of news are generally appropriate for the home page:
- All releases, major, minor and beta
- Development schedule milestones
- New certifications, awards & benchmarks
- Core team and committer changes
- Security issues
- Calls for assistance/participation
- Major changes to infrastructure, web, or legal structure of PostgreSQL
- Major new advocacy efforts
PostgreSQL "Family" News
This includes news about PostgreSQL add-on projects & drivers, open source projects which are primarily based on PostgreSQL, and news about PostgreSQL regional and user groups.
Any of the following items will be approved, regardless of frequency:
- Any release or initial beta of a major release
- Creation of any new user group, regional group, or web site
- Critical security patch announcements
- Substantial new articles or documentation
- Infrequent calls for assistance/participation
Other types of news, such as changes in leadership, will not be approved.
Commercial & External OSS Project News
This includes all news from companies whose products contain, support or are based on PostgreSQL, and OSS projects which support PostgreSQL as one of several database options.
The following types of news will be approved:
- Brand new products/projects/services which support or center around PostgreSQL
- Newly released books about PostgreSQL or with substantial (20% or more) PostgreSQL content.
- First support of PostgreSQL in existing products
- Major version releases (not more than once per quarter)
- Critical security updates, if thought to affect many PostgreSQL community members
Other types of announcements, including minor releases, pricing changes, leadership changes, 3rd-party news coverage and mergers & acquisitions will be rejected.
In addition, commercial entities who are not financial, in-kind or code contributors to the PostgreSQL project will be restricted to one news item of any kind per six-month period.
Approving Events and Event-Related News (excluding training)
Events must have significant PostgreSQL-related content in order to be listed.
PostgreSQL Conferences & Events
Any semi-annual or less frequent non-training event which is primarily about PostgreSQL or for PostgreSQL users will be entitled to be listed. Additionally, conferences which are primarily or entirely about PostgreSQL will be entitled to post news items at the following milestones, if they are each a week or more apart: Call for Papers, Registration Opening, Registration Closing, and Wrap-up.
Routine monthly PostgreSQL User Group meetings will not be listed. First meetings of a new PUG can be listed, as well as infrequent major special events likely to be of interest outside of the PUG's normal area.
Open Source & Database Conferences & Events
Open source conferences, and database conferences, which are not primarily about PostgreSQL but have significant PostgreSQL content, such as several sessions and a booth, may be listed in the Events. Additionally, the Call For Papers for these events may be accepted as News.
More routine events, such as monthly local meetings or mini-conferences, will not be listed. Conferences must have significant PostgreSQL content to be worth listing, with decisions on relative significance to be made by the WWW team.
Training Events
PostgreSQL Training may be listed from any company, under the following conditions:
- Each listing must include:
- Specific locations and dates for that specific training
- Link to training registration
- One or more sentence description of the contents of that specific training
