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French-Speaking PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group

The Cross-Enterprise Work Group ( called “Groupe de Travail Inter-Entreprises” - acronym PGGTIE - or “GT Inter-Entreprises” in French) is a dedidacted task force inside the PostgreSQLFr non-profit association.

NOTE : this page is a translation of the original page in French. Despite our effort to maintain this translation, it may not be up to date with the source.

Objectives

The objective of the group is to join our efforts for 3 concrete actions:

Share feedback, good practices, studies (performance, migration, …).

Contribute to the sustainability & improvement of PostgreSQL, in the spirit of Free and Open Source Software.

Encourage the use and adoption, especially support of PostgreSQL by software editors.

This group is by nature “open” and enthusiastically welcomes good will, with nevertheless some requirements

Members

To date, the group has more then 20 members, including : Air France, Carrefour, CASDEN, CNES, EDF, GIE AGORA (MSA), ISOCEL (Leclerc), MAIF, Météo France, French Education Ministry, PeopleDoc, Société Générale, SNCF and Tokheim Service Group

Air France	Carrefour	CASDEN	CNES
EDF	GIE AGORA (MSA)	ISOCEL (Leclerc)	MAIF
Météo France	Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale	PeopleDoc	SNCF
Société Générale	Tokheim Service Group

Independence

In order to avoid any situation of conflict of interest, companies offering services directly related to PostgreSQL (training, support, consulting, hosting, etc.) will not be able to join the group. They are nevertheless invited to make themselves known to be solicited.

Cooptation

In order to accept a new member into the Workgroup, a candidate must be accepted by at least half of the members subscribing to the PostgreSQLfr Association.

Privacy

Unless otherwise stated, all information exchanged within the group is confidential.

Each member of the Workgroup agrees not to disclose professional information to third parties presented within the group. The list of group members is not public.

Active participation

Each member has stated their intention to actively participate in the workgroup so that it is operational and actually make things happen.

This commitment is also divided into actions:

be present at appointments

give time to share & help

to participate if possible financially:

by joining the association to help it in its role of promotion of PostgreSQL (membership of 400 € per year)

by “putting to the pot” to develop additional functions to PostgreSQL (exploitation, supervision, …)

If you are a candidate, you will also have to commit yourself to theses principles before being welcomed into the group.

Contact

The Workgroup is by nature “open” and enthusiastically welcomes good will.

Presentation of the group to download: postgresql_groupe_entreprise_-_presentation.pdf (in French)

Coordinators: Simon Clavier (SNCF) and Flavio Gurgel (Doctolib)

Contact: entreprises.contact@postgresql.fr

Additional Info

Work in Progress

The Enterprise Workgroup organizes its work through specific projects, based on different subjects of interest. For each a project a volunteer is responsible for the animation.

There are currently 6 open projects :

High availability

Supervision

Monitoring

Usability

Migration

Promotion

Many other projects have been identified, they are waiting for the availability of a volunteer to be launched.

In the Press

About the Work Group

Le MagIT 06/12/2017 "PostgreSQL : les entreprises françaises utilisatrices organisent leur résistance"

Le MagIT 18/11/2016 "La communauté française de PostgreSQL se structure pour les entreprises"

Related Topics

CIGREF 03/07/2017 "Dégradation des relations entre les entreprises utilisatrices et Oracle"

le communiqué de presse en pdf

Le Monde Informatique 03/07/2017 "Le Cigref acte la rupture avec Oracle et pousse les alternatives"

CIO 03/07/2017 "Le Cigref va accompagner ses membres pour quitter Oracle"

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