Free PostgreSQL support for the students of the University of L'Aquila

We all know about the terrible events following the earthquake that shook the city of L'Aquila and the entire Abruzzo region last April.
In assisting the university to reinstate its teaching program, the company I work for (2ndQuadrant Italia) will offer students a free and preferential consulting service on PostgreSQL.
Back in February and March, we had had several e-mail exchanges and a few Skype sessions with Professor Paolino Di Felice from the "Università degli Studi dell'Aquila".
I was supposed to visit their University in May, together with my colleague Gianni Ciolli. The aim of the visit was to personally get to know Prof. Di Felice and the students of his database systems class, and to introduce them to PostgreSQL.
Unfortunately, we all know what happened afterwards.
Our initiative aims to help students gain practical skills and knowledge in installation procedures, configuration and the usage of PostgreSQL.
This embraces also Italian PostgreSQL Users Group's objective for the introduction of PostgreSQL in the Italian schools and universities.
The joint agreement will take effect from 1 October 2009 and has a duration of 15 months. More information are in the Italian press announcement.
Finally, I am also happy to restart my PlanetPostgreSQL.org activity with such great news for the whole PostgreSQL community!

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