Re: Training events policy ... first test case

Dave Page wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:03:31 -0000
>> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>>> From: Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>
>>>> To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
>>>> Sent: 03/11/07, 16:31:33
>>>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Training events policy ... first test case
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I think that its not unusual for us to see a few
>>>> enrollments the week before a class... so listing classes that are
>>>> "next week" is a good idea - i'm sure this is a trend seen by all
>>>> training companies....
>>>>
>>> Here's a possibly crazy idea - how about we remove the 3 or 4
>>> listings from /index.html altogether and replace them with a
>>> dynamically generated summary saying something like:
>>>
>>> "There are 24 training events in 9 countries scheduled over the next
>>> 6 months from OTG, EnterpriseDB, Command Prompt, 2nd Quadrant and
>>> others. View the complete schedule to find the PostgreSQL training
>>> you want."
>>>
>>> The numbers are easy to calcuate of course, and we could just grab 3
>>> or 4 company names randomly.
>>>
>> That is actually pretty cool.
>>
>> +1
>>
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://dave.pgadmin.org/
>
> To try it out. Before anyone asks, it does properly handle the case when
> there are less than 4 companies with events in the next 6 months and
> modifies the text accordingly.
>
> If noone objects, I'll commit in a day or two.
>
Perhaps the font size can be reduced so that its more in line with the
size used for events. It looks a bit bigger than everything else on the
page, kind of an eye-draw...

However, I think this brings to the forefront issue #2...that certain
companies use training events as a lead generation tool...much the same
way that some companies will post many press releases around the same
time to generate leads for their products.

I know that there are some "guidelines" for the press release issue, why
not apply something similar to training events? Or perhaps the "8 per
year and pay for more" strategy....with a "per event" fee ($1000 USD in
the US?) for additional events that varies based on the country of
incorporation (so Brazilian companies would pay a smaller fee than an
American one)....

Heck, perhaps even "8 per year per course type"? So companies would
have an added incentive to grow their PG offerings (this might be a bit
one-sided, since AFAIK we offer the widest range of PG courses), but it
seems like a good strategy to keep things on the up-and-up. Such a
strategy would also make sense (IMHO) for folks like EDB, which has a
couple of courses, and Modern and BNR, that offer their courses only
sporadically.
> /D
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