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To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Sponsorship Page Country
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:40:58 -0800
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On 01/14/2013 11:23 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>
>> So in order to show we have international support, we list only a few
>> of the countries that we operate in? Huh.
>
> Sarcasm ill becomes you.
>
>>> The Sponsors page is also quite clear that only the HQ country of each
>>> company is listed. Nobody thinks that Red Hat or Google is only in the
>>> USA; your worry that people will think that 2Q is UK-only on that basis
>>> is quite unfounded.
>>
>> I guess if it's not there for actual information purposes, then it
>> would be OK to remove it?
>
> I would be opposed to removing it. The entire sponsors page is not
> there for informational purposes: it is promotional, to show people the
> breadth of corporate support which the PostgreSQL project has. Listing
> the primary host countries of the various companies contributes to this,
> by showing that the PostgreSQL project is not a single-country project
> (as some OSS projects are).
>
> I agree that bringing back the PostgreSQL World Map would accomplish the
> same purpose, and if someone wants to code that up, pgsql-www is there
> on Git for you to get started. In the meantime, I don't agree that
> anyone has demonstrated any problem with listing the sponsor's home
> countries, and I feel they serve an advocacy purpose.
>
+1
Sincerely,
JD
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