Re: Suggestions needed for Articles and links

"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:
>
> On 14 Nov 2002, Robert Treat wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 23:44, Justin Clift wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Whilst there is a small area of the Techdocs site (on the "Other
> > > Resources" page) for having links to PostgreSQL articles in the press,
> > > I'm wondering what people feel would be the most effective way of having
> > > links to media articles portrayed?
> > >
> > > Perhaps having a "Links" area of the Advocacy site, and having it
> > > freeform so the project translators can include whatever links happen to
> > > be relevant to their language?

Well, the thought that was trying to organise itself was that if we
create a "Links" section on the Advocacy site
(advocacy.postgresql.org/links/) then it should pretty much be a header
and a footer, and the inbetween info is up to the people responsible for
the language to add in.

Robert's suggestion of having ground rules could be simple and effective
here too if they include things like:

- Only include links to articles that portray PostgreSQL in the correct
manner, suitable for large installations, active community, etc

It wouldn't be very suitable to include links to articles that didn't do
that. The people whom have done translations of the Advocacy site are
pretty responsible people, so there shouldn't be any real chance of them
including any FUD type articles.

?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> > The only concern I would have about this is that a good portion of the
> > news items that mention postgresql don't always do so in a positive
> > light. Usually this is do to lack of knowledge on the part of the
> > press, but the point remains that we probably would need some ground
> > rules as to what kind of articles could be linked to from the advocacy
> > page. I have half a notion to create an "anti-fud" page that would link
> > to articles but then have 1 or 2 paragraphs to correct misinformation
> > that might have been posted, but I whether that falls under something we
> > want on the advocacy site I don't know.
>
> Hrmmm ... instead of sending ppl to different pages, why not do up one
> page similar to the collaborative environment stuff ... when you click on
> a link, it opens up the article itself in a seperate window, while
> bringing the person to a 'comments page' for that article? maybe as part
> of adding the link, the authors email address is entered, so that any
> comments are auto-email'd to them, so that if the article is good,
> appropriate kudos could also be sent ... ? maybe moderate the addition of
> links as well, so that the moderator would be the first one to comment on
> it, and that first comment is shown on the 'link page' giving ppl a
> forewarning as to whether its good or bad?

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