X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7399FA176 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 14:20:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72431-05 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 14:20:09 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C84B9F9B01 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 14:20:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4741756431; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:20:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: (hashcash-sendmail, from uid 1001); Mon, 22 May 2006 12:20:06 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:20:05 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: David Fetter Cc: Michael Dean , pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach. Message-ID: <20060522172004.GZ64371@pervasive.com> References: <446CD9F3.9020100@sourceview.com> <20060518214545.GB15454@fetter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060518214545.GB15454@fetter.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060522:david@fetter.org::GpIxnil8p8L8Qr8v:001QJ X-Hashcash: 1:20:060522:mdean@sourceview.com::ebY5QTGTnSpXEgo3:00000000000000000 00000000000000000000000050k1 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060522:pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org::5iuk1qtw2nrVuOjZ:00000000 0000000000000000000000003qlV X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/113 X-Sequence-Number: 9052 On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:45:45PM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > > 6. Offer to assist nerwly popular university based applications > > around the world, such that they authomatically choose postgresql to > > base their software on. A good example, the educators who wrote > > LAMS, adopted a sensible database approach, but then went solely > > with mysql. > > With what resources? I have a theory that there's a lot of people who would love to help the community, but since they're not good enough to work on the backend they doubt there's anything else they can do. This is something that they could do, we'd just need to provide a place for these people to get in touch with each other and promote it. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461