Re: [GENERAL] Call for design: PostgreSQL mugs

What about "Don't ignore the elephant in the room"?

On 5 September 2013 09:24, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jean-Paul Argudo
> <jean-paul(at)postgresql(dot)fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le jeudi 05 septembre 2013 à 12:33 +0530, Atri Sharma a écrit :
> >> Make an elephant in a space suit, or with lots of equipments. Text:
> >> 'Ready for mission critical systems'
> >
> > Despite I like this idea a lot, I think we should avoid messages like
> > "Ready for.." or such, since it implies PG wasn't ready before, wich is
> > mostly false in all the cases.
> >
> > I think we'd better focus on what we're good at, like community
> > management, quality of code, respect of the standard, and such... or why
> > not just jokes, since I think we could just make this simple and funny..
> > (I don't really think we have anything to proove anymore since facts
> > talk for us).
> >
> > This could lead to positive messages like (just samples I tought about,
> > and mostly to be rebranded completely!!):
> >
> > Focusing what we know best:
> >
> > * Community driven makes it just better
> > * Our code matters more than their commercials (~Debian I know)
> > * We are a few thousand only reviewing and testing it
> > * Unbreakable Open-Source Community (if you know what I mean there)
> > * etc..
> >
> > Funnier messages:
> >
> > * My spouse told me to use it, I swear
> > * PostgreSQL, saves money all around the world
> > * """"""""""""""""" time """"""""""""""""""""
> > * One rdbms to rule them all
> > * Vulcains would use it
> > * etc..
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> >> <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > Put a small elephant logo *inside* the mug. With a text: "also for
> embedded
> >> > systems"
> >> >
> >> > - Heikki
> >> >
> >> >
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Paul
> >
>
> Good one.
>
> One thing we could do, remove the 'Ready' and only keep 'For mission...'.
>
> Other thing is a lot of elephants sitting around a table with
> laptops(optional) denoting our community. Or a lot of elephant heads
> clustered together and smiling. An awesome community is something we
> all are proud of!
>
> Regards,
>
> Atri
>
>
>
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>
> Atri
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>
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