Hello, It is now 2009 and time for a, "Thanks for all the laughs 2008!" 2008 was the year that PgUS spent getting its feet under itself. We formed our board, filed all of our legally required paperwork, paid a lot of money to attorneys, held elections and even managed to have some fun by working on parts of our mission. Many goals for 2008 were met. We have ensured that when the new board was seated the majority of our logistical infrastructure was in place. CPA, Legal, etc... Our Attorney is: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 1300 SW Fifth Avenue Suite 2300 Portland, OR 97201 Our CPA is: Alten Sakai & Company LLP 1815 SW Marlow Ave., Suite 218 Portland, OR 97225-5187 We have retained Alten Sakai for not only standard CPA activities but also book keeping and general accounting. The goal being that those focusing on the success of PgUS are not book keepers or accountants. PgUS will be able to focus on actually educating people on PostgreSQL in the United States. Through our relationship with Alten Sakai we will be able to provide monthly financial statements to our members in a reliable manner. Expect to see the first detailed statement in March. PgUS closed out the year with ~ 10k USD. We have no outstanding payables and only one outstanding receivable. This leaves us with enough money to handle any sundry expenses through 2009 including Accounting and Legal fees. Our community efforts included: We started the process of working on our strategy with education. Part of that conversation can be found here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgus-general/2008-08/msg00036.php Michael Brewer who is heading up that strategy will be posting an update to the website shortly. We worked with PostgreSQL Conference, U.S. to hold West: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ We presented at Northern Arizona State. In 2009: We will seat the four elected members of the board: Richard Broersma, Jr. Andrew Dunstan Greg Sabino Mullane Robert Treat We will also work with PostgreSQL Conference, U.S. to hold East, West, and LFNW PgDay. We hope to hold several free classes and seminars on PostgreSQL as well as continue an aggressive move into education. Getting students and professors to start using PostgreSQL is a key to ensuring a strong relationship with potential new community members over the long term. We want to hear from our members. How is it that PgUS can help our members with their PostgreSQL needs? How would our members like to participate with PgUS? Are there members out there that have just been waiting for an opportunity to participate? What is that opportunity? What talents do you have and how would you like to use them? For those who want to help but are not sure exactly how, here are some ideas: * Drupal expertise The PostgreSQL.US site runs on Drupal + PostgreSQL * Speakers (PgUS will sponsor as it is able) We are actively pursuing every speaking engagement possible. We need more than one person to handle these engagements. * Tutorial writers This can be everything from how do I perform a backup with PostgreSQL to working with Pylons and PostgreSQL. * Community incursion We need guerrillas to start educating other communities on a more aggressive level and helping make sure that their postgresql support is top knotch. An very simple example is Drupal. They have an open issue list for Drupal 7 that is explicit to PostgreSQL. It can be found here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/17671 Lastly, please make note of our address change. Our new address is: United States PostgreSQL Association 1767 12th Street #149 Hood River, OR 97031 Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake President United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS) -- PostgreSQL Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
