Re: On what we want to support: infrastructure?

> > >While you may not have the need to get paying advertisers, I feel
> > >that rotating ads of open source projects which use pgsql was an
> > >interesting idea, even though it was partly abandoned
> during the site restyle.
> > >
> > >There is a fairly good number of monthly ad impressions (without
> > >banners on the home page) and it's just a pity to avoid using them.
> >
> > Hmmm ... we can re-discuss this. The reason for removing
> them is that
> > *paid* ads detract from our image as a serious, well
> supported, mature
> > OSS project. Look for other major OSS projects who run paid ads on
> > their home page ... there aren't any.
> >
> > Now, if we wanted to make those ads exclusively for
> PG-supporting OSS
> > projects and for major donors to postgresql.org (and I'm talking
> > $10,000+ per year here) then it might be worth revisiting.
>
> +1, especially on the OSS projects front. I think it's very important
> for the community for people to see us as a very viable
> alternative to MySQL.

-1 from me on the concept of banner ads completely.

+1 on a prominent way for OSS projects related to PostgreSQL to be
visible on our website, but generic banner-ads suck IMHO. For that as
well.

//Magnus