Re: PG "Users" page?

> On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:49 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org <mailto:dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>> wrote:
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> > On 11 Sep 2016, at 16:55, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org <mailto:justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>> wrote:
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> > Hi us,
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> > Just noticed that our Featured Users page has “Sun Microsystems” listed:
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> > https://www.postgresql.org/about/users/ <https://www.postgresql.org/about/users/>
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> > Should we update that to say “Oracle” :D … or maybe just nuke that entry?
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> That page is completely unmaintained. I proposed removing it a couple of years back, but was met with strong objections coupled with a complete lack of volunteers to actually do the work to keep it up to date.
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> I strongly feel it should be removed still - it is probably responsible for 25% of emails to webmaster@ from random companies requesting inclusion.
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> Given that it really isn't being maintained, and that it actually takes a decent amount of time for somebody to maintain it in a way to make it actually *valuable* to visitors, I'll give a strong +1 for removing it.

+1

> If we want just a list of users, we could do that and make it self-service (meaning you just sign up and fill in your details - like we have for professional services). But that's something very different from being a featured user.

+1 - but it goes back to Dave’s point of lack of criteria for how users get listed, even if we make it self-signup. We would probably want to moderate it similar to the self-published content to avoid spam, etc.