Re: Company PR WAS: News links, post 'em here

Gilles Darold <gilles(dot)darold(at)dalibo(dot)com> writes:
> Please do not introduce Ora2Pg as a bullet when you want to fight.

There's no fight. There's trying to understand a situation and recognise
it for what it is in order to be able to answer a question about how to
reproduce it in other areas. Here's my summary:

- Josh is happily surprised by the news coverage we got in France and
asks how did we manage that so that maybe other countries can
achieve the same;

- Damien proposes his ideal Marketing organisation (competitors
working together to promote our common product), giving some details
about how we did our news coverage;

- Dimitri tries to reconciliate the ideal with what happened for real
this time (community effort on the one hand, and independant private
company's campain to advertise Oracle migrations to PostgreSQL 9.3
more than anything else on the other hand, all happening at the same
time under the same PR opportunity);

- Josh says it's perfectly fine to call that a community effort as we
as a community welcome companies and their Marketing money.

> Ora2Pg is open for
> every one. The fact that Dalibo hired me brings lot of improvements to
> Ora2Pg that every one can benefit, that's a special thanks to Dalibo.

I know what you mean, believe me, as the main author of pgloader, which
is now a full MySQL migration tool too. And other contributions too.

I'm sorry about your feelings here. I really do appreciate your Open
Source efforts in Ora2Pg and your position as a contributor to the
PostgreSQL Community.

Let's have a beer (or two) next time you're in Paris and talk at lenghts
about our views of the community and how different companies are
throwing money at different parts of it.

Regards,
--
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support