Re: Quality of email postings

On 8/10/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > See my other posting about suggestions to improve things. Obviously I
> > > realize this is open source and lots of issues are going to come up,
> but
> > > the question is whether there is room for improvement and whether more
> > > leadership and self-policing will improve things.
> >
> > Well "leadership" in this vein is a red herring unless you want to start
> > moderating. Self policing is something that we *all* should do better.

The provided description of Advocacy is: "PostgreSQL vs. the rest.
Promotional ideas, etc.",
and would seem to be a good place to start. Change 'description' to
Objective. Restate the sentence as an Objective. Set specific, chewable,
sub-objectives. Then add in the Promotional ideas to achieve each specific
objective. Develop very specific task lists (similar to a Roadmap). Get
volunteer(s). Then do it and attempt to measure results.

Anytime I see "etc." in any sentence, to me it means "wing it". I brought
up the same general thread a few years ago. There is no Marketing Plan.
Until there is, the Advocacy list will remain an exercise in "etc.". At the
time I was told (+ - ), "don't go there."

Man 1: "Can you give me some directions?"
Man 2: "Sure, what's your destination?"
Man 1: "Damned if I know."
Man 2: "There's your answer.".