On 23 March 2015 at 05:18, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> For the 10th birthday we used the start of the online presence as our
> birthday, not the Postgres95 release. That's next year.
>
> It would seem odd to change the definition and celebrate a 20th birthday 9
> years after the 10th.
If we are going to celebrate something, we should be celebrating
Stonebraker's Turing award. It seems weird to celebrate a 20th
anniversary of Postgres next year, significantly more than 20 years
since Stonebraker did the work that won him the award.
Postgres was always open source, so celebrating the start of the open
source project in 1996 doesn't make sense.
We should invite Stonebraker and have a big party, forget the year.
Hell, he might even help pay if we asked.
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