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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Omar Kilani <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Alternate PostgreSQL.org Design
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:17:58 -0800
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> The idea here, and I know that people don't agree, but websites are the
> public marketing front for projects like this. Advocacy has as much to
> do with that as the people on www that make it happen. While
> documentation and such are important, one can argue that those are
> marketing tools, since users would be less apt to use PgSQL if the
> website didn't have the info. The website is one of the things that new
> users evaluate, even subconsciously, before making a decision. The more
> professional we look in web presence, the more comfortable users will be
> with PgSQL at an Enterprise level.
>
> Ultimately I also think we need to take the vote out of the hands of the
> implementors and into the hands of a potential test market as they will
> be more representative of user impression. I would even go as far as to
> suggest the radical idea of offering the vote to pgsql-general and
> letting the active community at large decide.
> </marketing_hat>
This is absolutely correct.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Gavin
>
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