From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Major donors (was: Where to put the new
	donations page?)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:45:18 -0800
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Jim,

Well, this is my general idea.  We'd divide the sponsors page into:

Code Contributors
	current developer sponsors here

Hosting Sponsors
	hub, ehpg, cmd, etc.

Financial Sponsors
	Major Sponsors
		$10,000+ annual corporate gifts
	Sponsors
		other corporate gifts, $1000-$10,000
		plus in-kind support
	Individuals (link to page)

However, the "ad-hoc fundraising group" has yet to discuss actual donor 
levels.  Plus, "Financial Sponsors" *must* include donors to JPUG, 
PostgresqlFR and FFIV Germany as well as PostgreSQL at SPI.

I've thought about some relativist approaches but they don't really seem 
appropriate for a donor credits page -- all they would do is result in the 
big companies giving less, which is not what we want.

Oh, one more note:  I'd like to phase out the banner ads by using sponsor 
listings instead.  No other major OSS project I know of uses banners ads 
on their site; it's time to shut them down.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco