Re: [HACKERS] Changes to Contributor List

Hello,

My feeling is that advocacy should be just that: Advocacy.
It doesn't matter who the intended audience is in reality. However,
it is also important to remember that technical experts typically
don't need to be sold on PostgreSQL.

PHBs on the other hand probably do and thus much of our
Advocacy work should be geared towards them. I believe
one place where we are particularly week is PostgreSQL
versus MySQL.

We should have mountains of dead tree printables on why
you should use PostgreSQL and why you shouldn't use mySQL.
This can be done in a non-flammatory way.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Josh Berkus writes:
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>>>>I was discussing specifically the "Recognized Corporate Contributors" which
>>>>is, AFAIK, strictly a PHB thing, no?
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>>>No.
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>>Please explain.
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>I don't see anything in this project that should be strictly a PHB thing,
>the exception maybe being the weird whitepaper someone is going to write
>sometime. Anything else is intended for a greatly diverse audience, who
>may be engineers or decision makers, who may be technically incompetent,
>technically open-minded, or technical experts, and who may or may not have
>varying degrees of clues about open source, databases, and PostgreSQL.
>In other words, the general public. If you disagree, then maybe we should
>split up into advocacy-for-phbs and advocacy-for-real-people groups.
>
>Moreover, you seem to imply that the list of companies should primarily be
>a marketing instrument of the PostgreSQL project for attracting new users.
>I don't understand that. I would understand it if the list contained a
>large number of "big names", but it does not, and it is not set up to
>strive for that goal. Right now, the list is nothing more than a
>marketing tool for the listed companies for attracting existing users to
>them.
>
>I think that list is a pretty dumb idea in the first place. We have a
>list of developers with company names next to them. Let readers make
>their own recognition evaluation.
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