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From: Darcy Buskermolen <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Major donors (was: Where to put the new donations page?)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:20:20 -0800
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:45, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:54:52AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > 	2) Do major (> $1000) financial sponsors get to be Sponsors at
> > www.postgresql.org/about/Sponsors, or do we put them somewhere else? 
> > (we'll probably need to have this argument on Advocacy as well).
>
> Since I haven't seen this on -advocacy yet...
>
> The only argument I can think of for seperating large donors from
> corporate sponsors is that some folks might have rather different levels
> of interest about each one. Having a number of corporations officially
> sponsoring the project arguably carries more weight than the same number
> of individual believers, even if they do have deep pockets.
>
> It also might not make sense from a financial perspective. $1k is quite
> a lot for most individuals, but it's a tiny sum for all but the smallest
> companies.
>
> But of course, my opinions might be a bit biased here... :)

Perhaps a link on the sponsors page that is "individual sponsors" and list 
those people that sponsor a significant amount.  Though saying that I'm not 
sure what qualifies as a significant amount, perhaps as low as 100.00.  And 
when i say Individual sponsosr I'm thinking small companies as well, Because 
as you say large sums are easy for large companies, but not so easy for small 
companies who are using PG as a core part of thier business.  Perhaps 
something simular to the way that PHK listed all those people that sponsored 
him to do fbsd development. 

http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/donations.html
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html

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Darcy Buskermolen
Wavefire Technologies Corp.

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