Re: Contest: Theme, Slogan for 9.4

On May 5, 2014, at 7:14 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 07:03:41PM -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> On May 5, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>> We need a theme and a slogan for the 9.4 release in order to reach a lot
>>> of developers. That is, something which summarizes what the 9.3 release
>>> is "about".
>>>
>>> Since I'm completely out of ideas, I've convinced Mark Wong to donate
>>> one of his irresistable Chelniks as a prize for whomever can come up
>>> with a good, catchy theme and slogan idea for the 9.4 release which we
>>> can pick and run with. You don't need to design the art for this, just
>>> provide the text and some ideas.
>>>
>>> Chelnik: http://pdxpug.wordpress.com/category/chelnik/
>>>
>>> Example good themes include:
>>>
>>> 9.0: Replication Made Easy
>>>
>>> 9.2: Racecar-like Performance
>>
>> Not saying I like all (if any) of these ideas, but:
>>
>> * 9.4: Your Relational Database, Reimagined
>> - PostgreSQL 9.4 gives you the flexibility of efficiently storing and retrieving JSON along with the security of the past 15+ years of relational database development
>>
>> * NoSQL + YeSQL = PostgreSQL 9.4
>>
>> * Flexible, Fast, and Reliable - PostgreSQL 9.4
>
> With utmost respect, these are all pretty generic, and could have
> applied back to just about any recent previous version.
>
> How about:
>
> 9.4: More ways to database

We could just as easily say that about our other release, too :P

However, it is cute and clever and we can build a lot of different explanations off of it.

Jonathan