Re: [CORE] Re: tomorrow

Other then that we won *woo hoo!!* ...
what ever did happen? *raised eyebrow*

OK, I was sort of waiting for an update to be posted on the LinuxWorld
site, but I still don't see anything, so you'll have to take my word
for it ;)

Here's the full story:

I hadn't heard *anything* from the expo organizers prior to departing
for San Jose on Wednesday morning, so was a bit leary of my reception
upon showing up cold. After an hour to get my rental car (seems some
convention had taken up most of the available ones...), and another 20
minutes to drive to the San Jose convention center, it took a couple
of minutes of talking, armed with a printout of our invitation, to get
onto the exhibit floor without paying money (needless to say, I hate
parting with a dollar, and hey, we *were* invited ;)

I am heading to bed, but where is the picture? They must have a digital
camera at JPL somewhere. It is Nasa/JPL. Take one off that Mars rover
thingy and post a picture, OK? :-)

(I see you just got home on Friday.)

Second, my guess is that we are going to be getting one of these every
year, so Marc will need to buy a display case, right? :-) If
contribution to open source is a criteria, we will win easily next year.
We just need a few cool'o features for >= 6.6.

What should I do with the trophy? Send it straight to Marc, or should
it travel a more indirect route, perhaps passing through Pennsylvania
and other places first? The box seems fairly sturdy, and if I put it
into a bigger box then it should travel OK.

Sounds like that run they do for the Olympics with the torch. "The
PostgreSQL award will be passing through your town on October 12th, at
..." We could have Linux user groups doing the running. :-)

The big question is whether the box can make it to Russia.

So, that's the story, and I'm sticking to it. I stayed up in the area
another couple of days working, so didn't get home until late Friday
night.

Thanks for going.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

The big question is whether the box can make it to Russia.

Why not get the Russians.. and other contributors to go to the box :-).

Perhaps a donation thingy on the home page to cover costs....?
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welp, I missed this thread somewhere...

huh? what box? what did I miss?? :(

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Theo Kramer wrote:

Bruce Momjian wrote:

The big question is whether the box can make it to Russia.

Why not get the Russians.. and other contributors to go to the box :-).

Perhaps a donation thingy on the home page to cover costs....?
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

When I got the the awards area, they were quite nice, and apologized
for not responding. Apparently their e-mail wasn't actually working
during the week before the show. Funny, I forgot to ask what system
they actually were running, but assume that it was some M$ corporate
garbage. They were using PowerPoint btw for projecting during the
awards. Should have given them a hard time about it...

From what Jeff was able to tell when he talked to someone there a few

weeks back, they are "considering moving their accounting system to
PostgreSQL" ... and the 'PowerPoint'...i twouldn't have been StarOffice's
product vs MS, no? :)

So, we've got a nice trophy, consisting of a curved piece of glass
with our project name (and Marc F's name; note to us: we should
probably ask them to put "Postgres Development Group" on it next time)

No disagreement here...

What should I do with the trophy? Send it straight to Marc, or should
it travel a more indirect route, perhaps passing through Pennsylvania
and other places first? The box seems fairly sturdy, and if I put it
into a bigger box then it should travel OK.

Sounds cool to me...hrmmm...I'd like to get it, like, VRML'd so that we
could put it on the web site and rotated and whatnot :) "see the back of
our award" *grin* And I have a good graphic artist up here, I'll get it
"touched up" to say "PostgreSQL Global Development Group", if it can be
done :)

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Second, my guess is that we are going to be getting one of these every
year, so Marc will need to buy a display case, right? :-) If
contribution to open source is a criteria, we will win easily next year.
We just need a few cool'o features for >= 6.6.

*rofl* that would be most interesting to watch..."PostgreSQL wins award
15 years running!!" *grin*

What should I do with the trophy? Send it straight to Marc, or should
it travel a more indirect route, perhaps passing through Pennsylvania
and other places first? The box seems fairly sturdy, and if I put it
into a bigger box then it should travel OK.

Sounds like that run they do for the Olympics with the torch. "The
PostgreSQL award will be passing through your town on October 12th, at
..." We could have Linux user groups doing the running. :-)

Linux users can run? :)

The big question is whether the box can make it to Russia.

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

It would have been easier to find, but there were quite a few
exhibits, including a large one from Oracle (oh oh, no way we're going
to win this one, eh?...). It was great seeing a lot of the companies
in the Linux/OpenSource market actually acting like real companies
with booths, "demo girls", the whole schmear. FreeBSD had a large
booth full of t-shirts, coffee mugs, and CDs; apparently they have a
strong Bay area contingent.

Ya, the way I've heard it (might not have been this one), but the
FreeBSD'rs have been going ot Linux conventions with "free CDs" to give
away, but RedHat has been 'anal' about doing similar...

So, that's the story, and I'm sticking to it. I stayed up in the area
another couple of days working, so didn't get home until late Friday
night.

thanks for going :) I'm glad we had a 'human' prescense at the awards...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Vince.
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

The big question is whether the box can make it to Russia.

Why not get the Russians.. and other contributors to go to the box :-).

Perhaps a donation thingy on the home page to cover costs....?

There has been talk that if we write a book, we can use the profits to
fly people around for "meetings".

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

There has been talk that if we write a book, we can use the profits to
fly people around for "meetings".

I'll be keeping my nose glued to oreilly.com :-)
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Regards
Theo

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

There has been talk that if we write a book, we can use the profits to
fly people around for "meetings".

I'll be keeping my nose glued to oreilly.com :-)

They haven't approached us yet. Other publishers have.

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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

Then it can be called: The 1999 PostgreSQL World Tour or wait a few
months and call it: The PostgreSQL 2K World Tour or I can shut up now.

:)

Vince.
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

Then it can be called: The 1999 PostgreSQL World Tour or wait a few
months and call it: The PostgreSQL 2K World Tour or I can shut up now.

*groan* *grin*

The 1999 one sounds better, IMHO :)

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Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

I like this idea -:))

Vadim

Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

I like this idea -:))

Vadim

I like it too:-)
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On 17-Aug-99 Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

I think we should get a "duplicate" made if we are going to have it do a
world tour or something like that, no? *rofl*

What, like the Stanley Cup? :)

Exactly :)

You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

I like this idea -:))

Vadim

I like it too:-)

Hmmmm... Y'know they always send a rep along with the Stanley Cup so as
to keep it safe........... :)

Vince.
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You know, if we send it to Vadim, then to Tatsuo or Hiroshi, then to
Marc, it will have traveled around the world.

I like this idea -:))

Vadim

I like it too:-)

Hmmmm... Y'know they always send a rep along with the Stanley Cup so as
to keep it safe........... :)

You know, my wife and I were just talking today about taking an
around-the-world cruise someday. This may be my chance. :-)

I am seeing double-smiles from Vadim, so if people are serious and not
just joking, I will try and make the arrangements so it is dropped off
and picked up by reputable carriers to make the trip.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

You know, my wife and I were just talking today about taking an
around-the-world cruise someday. This may be my chance. :-)

I am seeing double-smiles from Vadim, so if people are serious and not
just joking, I will try and make the arrangements so it is dropped off
and picked up by reputable carriers to make the trip.

I'm not joking (though cost may be issue).
First step is to define the route.
So, who would like to participate in this project?

Vadim