Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:34:16 -0800
To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Major donors (was: Where to put the new
	donations page?)
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From: elein <elein@varlena.com>

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:20:20AM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> 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

As one of the small businesses that has contributed and plans to contribute
more (the postgres pin business :)  I would appreciate my small contribution
recognized.  It is actually a fair amount of work and in very small businesses
like mine both money and bandwidth is at a premium.

I don't like the separation of big'uns and little'uns.  We all do what we
can.

--elein

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