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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: merging advocacy and "overview"
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:25:46 -0500
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On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:37, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Robert,
>
> > I am current leaning toward making a new menu item called "advocacy"
> > and renaming the overview/about section to "community".  With that here
> > is how I see the content breaking down into those two sections:
>
> I think this is overall a very good idea.  However, I think it should be
> called "about" and not "advocacy".  "about" is a web industry convention,
> and new people know to automatically go to "about" for stuff like press
> links, supporters, contact info, etc.
>

the only reason to go with advocacy is due to it's replacing 
advocacy.postgresql.org;  ie. it's a community standard vs. industry 
standard.  

> Some comments below.
>
> >                         members{a}
>
> Doesn't this duplicate the developer site portion?
>

This is the top half of http://advocacy.postgresql.org/about/  
as opposed to http://developer.postgresql.org/bios.php

long term those two might need to be merged, but for now I think we can leave 
them seperate.  


> >                         corporate{a}
>
> We'll need to come up with some rules on who can appear here.  My thoughts:
> 1) Anyone who sponsors a full-time or 1/2 time developer;
> 2) Anyone who has sponsored a significant feature in the last 3 versions.
> 3) Anyone who contributed/runs an add-in project in recent use.

yeah. one thing to keep in mind is how this will play alongside the foundation 
info. 

>
> >                         advantages{a}
> >                         case studies{a}
> >                         requestinfo{a}
>
> Definitely keep this.  I'll want to revise the form, but I currently get
> 5-10 e-mails a day.  It's been very useful.
>
> >                         presskit{u}
>
> Which means I need to work on a general, non-version-specific presskit, eh?
> Give me some time after 8.0.

Well, maybe, but for now we can link to the version specific stuff, will need 
to update it with each release anyway... 

>
> >                         license{a}
> >
> > community/
> >                         users{ex}
>
> What is this?

http://www.pgsql.com/user_gallery

>
> >                         store{ex}
> >                         donate{ex}
> >                         books{u}
> >                         related projects{u}
> >                         interfacing to postgresql{u}
> >                         [docs]
> >                         [support]
>
> Hmmm ... won't documentation be a top-level category?

Yes, but it seems critical enough to warrent a redundent link, along with 
support.  

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL



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