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Get
Involved; Stay Informed |
The Ingres community is in transition and lots
of new people are coming to the product. There is also a lot of new forums, blogs and mailing lists.
It is important to stay informed about events such as new releases, newly
identified security vulnerabilities, drop-support notices, and conferences such as the annual
UK Ingres User Association
conference and the Ingres Engineering Summit. To be sure you're not
missing out you really need to monitor one of the forums. There are suggestions for which one and how to join below. |
Support your local Ingres user
group.
See the list below. |
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Ingres
Forums |
comp.databases.ingres
(c.d.i.)
is an NNTP Usenet newsgroup. It is by far the oldest
Ingres forum and is completely open (i.e. independent and unmoderated).
There is an archive of over 35,000
Google-searchable
Ingres postings. To use it you need a newsreader (MS
Outlook Express works well, and we like
XPN, but there are many others). You also
need access to an ISP that carries the comp.databases.ingres
news-feed. (See notes at right.)
If you can't use a newsreader at
your location for some reason, or prefer not to, then
Google Groups provides browser-based access to the
comp.databases.ingres newsgroup. Click
here.
info-ingres
is an e-mail list. It is a good alternative for anyone who
can't get access to c.d.i. even using the aioe.org news
server (see notes at right). It is cross-posted to c.d.i., and
vice versa. Click
here to subscribe. The main disadvantage of a mailing list is
that postings aren't threaded or kept in context by most email
programs.
For OpenROAD users there
is the dedicated
OpenROAD-Users mailing list. This is mirrored on
Google Groups. There is a partial
archive of previous postings going back to October 2006.
The
Ingres Forums are an unwieldy set of web-based forums
created, hosted, managed, and (one has to assume) vetted by
Ingres Corporation. These forums have their own search
facility and are indexed by Google, but are not cross-posted anywhere.
The forums are called: DBA; Migration; Database Drivers and
APIs; OpenROAD Developers; Development Tools and Utilities, and
Contributors. Few posters pay any attention to these categories,
so most posts seem to go on the DBA forum whether that's
appropriate or not. Others post to all the forums just in
case, but the responders usually don't, so you have to check them all to be
sure you see all the responses.
Ingres Corporation also
operates the users@lists.ingres.com mailing list (Click
here
to subscribe). This list should not be confused with info-ingres.
It seems to carry very little traffic but it might be worth
subscribing anyway.
There are two other Ingres
Corporation mailing lists: announce@lists.ingres.com
(click
here to subscribe) and bugs@lists.ingres.com (click
here to subscribe).
The
Ingres Community and
Ingres Project forums are also hosted by Ingres
Corporation. They are not easy to find and they are
virtually unused.
The
Ingres Wiki is also hosted by Ingres Corporation.
One day it will be opened up to public submissions. Until then,
if you want to contribute to it you will need to send an email
to Community Admin
Team
to ask for access. Rational Commerce strongly encourages
everyone to contribute to the wiki.
The
UK Ingres User
Association used to operate an Ingres forum too, but
shut it down to specifically to reduce fragmentation of the
Ingres community. However you really should consider
joining the UK IUA mailing
list to receive occasional notices of local events.
And as if there weren't already
too many Ingres forums, various people have attempted to start
additional Ingres/OpenROAD groups on Google. There has
been two or three postings on them since they were started.
We have decided not to link to them here because we believe they
are actually counterproductive.
Finally, you may discover a
newsgroup called fa.ingres, which shows up in Google
searches. The fa newsgroups are special. Go to
http://histoire.info.online.fr/grouplist.txt for more
information. |
Click here
for instructions on how to configure MS Outlook Express to read comp.databases.ingres.
Click
here
for
newsreaders for MS, Linux, and others. (We like
XPN.)
If you can't get
comp.databases.ingres from your own ISP's news server, refer
to
http://news.aioe.org. They operate a free NNTP
server-of-last-resort. No authentication is required, but
do respect their rules. Or, you can pay for a news service
from
Giganews.com.
Click
here for instructions on
subscribing to the info-ingres mailing list.
Click here
for links to other Ingres-related sites.
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Ingres-Related
Blogs & Social Networking Sites |
In addition to the forums above that are intended
for open discussions, there are various blogs as well. Traditionally blogs
invite comment and discussion about posted articles too.
The View from
25B by Emma McGrattan
Ingres Technology Blog
by various people
The Ingres Facebook
Group
#ingres channel on irc.freenode.net (requires an IRC client; we
use the Chatzilla plugin for Firefox) |
Your blog not listed?
If you are aware of other blogs or sites that should be listed
here, please do
notify us. |
