Re: Training events policy ... first test case

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Training events policy ... first test case
Date: 2007-11-03 18:55:25
Message-ID: A9FB771055B1EA01E3971E7A@ganymede.hub.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-www

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

- --On Saturday, November 03, 2007 19:51:20 +0100 Magnus Hagander
<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Saturday, November 03, 2007 14:15:32 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>>>> 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."
>>> Love it, if not too difficult to implement. Solves the whole problem.
>>
>> That 'from' list could get fairly long, no? Why not just cut out the 'from'
>> part of it, leave it as '24 training events in 9 countries schedualed over
>> the next 6 months' and then a click thru to the actual list?
>
> Daves suggestion was to pull a couple of company names at random, and
> then include the "and others" part. That way you'll get a circulation on
> who's listed there without making the list take up half our frontpage.

That works too

- ----
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy(at)hub(dot)org MSN . scrappy(at)hub(dot)org
Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFHLMQd4QvfyHIvDvMRAn7TAJ9bn+baeh3MS4g0lqFkOiKWJINeTACgttFS
i3czur12bYOnSUUXlAPnGuQ=
=QnkY
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

In response to

Browse pgsql-www by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Chander Ganesan 2007-11-03 19:17:29 Re: Training events policy ... first test case
Previous Message Magnus Hagander 2007-11-03 18:51:20 Re: Training events policy ... first test case