From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Request from training vendor re: home page
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:25:25 -0800
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WWW,

You may or may not have noticed that we're getting a bit of jockeying for 
home page spots among our training vendors.  It's obviously not in our 
interest to have different vendors manipulating the details of their 
events announcements, or even posting duplicates, in order to "control" 
what appears on the home page.  One of the vendors involved had this 
suggestion:

> Just a thought...I notice that now "training" is split out separately on
> the PostgreSQL.org web site...which is great in the sense that
> non-training events don't get pushed off the front page by training
> events (or event spam...).
>
> I'm wondering if its possible to "somewhat equalize" things by
> preventing a single vendor event from appearing more than once on the
> front page.  The idea being that training vendors (which are generally
> for-profit) would get equal opportunity for that ever-important
> front-page exposure...

Seems like a decent idea; does it make sense to other people?  How would we 
enforce it?

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco