Re: Changes to Contributor List

Imagine this discussion with your boss:

You: I want to spend an hour a day at work on PostgreSQL
community work.
Boss: Hmm. (How do I justify this?)
You: Our company will be listed on the main PostgreSQL web
site.
Boss: Fine. (That gives me a legitimate business purpose.)

This is why listing companies/individuals is good for several reasons,
and this is one of them.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Josh Berkus writes:
>
> > But it does! You pointed it out yourself .... for the hackers & OSS tech
> > people, they can just look at the descriptions of the major contributors and
> > figure things out for themselves. They don't need a list with company logos
> > & links.
>
> Other people have pointed out that this is not really sufficient. So if
> there is to be a separate company list, then it should be next to the
> individuals list.
>
> > This is important because we've (people on the Advocacy list) briefly
> > discussed expanding this page to cover companies which, in the future, make
> > *financial* contributions to PostgreSQL ... sort of a "corporate donors"
> > page. This works very well in standard nonprofit fundraising; the project
> > gets $, and the donors get publicity. Obviously, contributors would have to
> > be categorized, but that's an issue for when we're ready to set it up.
>
> When we're ready. But we're not.
>
> But then again, this sort of list would mostly be of use to existing
> users, in the sense, "They support a project I like, so I like them."
> You could only really make use of that for attracting potential users if
> you could make a clear case the the amount of donations is sufficient to
> guarantee any kind of longevity of the project. I think that will be hard
> to do (because there is, in fact, absolutely no relation). But hopefully,
> by the time we've arrived there, this silly web site fragmentation will be
> over and this question will be moot.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
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