X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9589DC9C3 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:04:21 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49100-09 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:04:22 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (news.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82919DCA6D for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:04:18 -0400 (AST) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id D96D130CF4; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:04:19 +0100 (MET) From: Chris Browne X-Newsgroups: pgsql.advocacy Subject: Re: Major donors Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:07:23 -0500 Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Lines: 19 Message-ID: <60r74utf9g.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> References: <200603111054.52910.josh@agliodbs.com> <20060322154523.GH15742@pervasive.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KwB4xYUeDFttZNf4GL+wUwoKsC8= To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.317 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.317] X-Spam-Score: 0.317 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/164 X-Sequence-Number: 8749 jnasby@pervasive.com ("Jim C. Nasby") writes: > It also might not make sense from a financial perspective. $1k is > quite a lot for most individuals, but it's a tiny sum for all but > the smallest companies. I suspect it's a more significant thing, in fact, if a project attracts contributions from 50 individuals that add to $1000 (that's a mere $20 apiece) than if it attracts $10K from a corporate donor. I'd expect getting 50 people to take the (pretty nominal) action to be more difficult than to get one person to sign off on $10K. If a project needs $10K, the latter is obviously necessary; demonstrating the "grass roots support" of the first $1K would be quite compelling to the folks with bigger purse strings... -- output = ("cbbrowne" "@" "ntlug.org") http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/internet.html Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.