Message-ID: <41950C66.7060306@commandprompt.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:17:58 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Omar Kilani <omar@tinysofa.org>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Alternate PostgreSQL.org Design
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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


> 
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