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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Sponsorship Page Language
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:08:15 -0500
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On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Dave Page wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Jonathan S. Katz
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> When looking at the sponsorship page
>> (http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors/) I noticed a few things regarding
>> the language that I've attempted to clean up with this patch.
>> 
>> The first regards the ordering of the sponsors - they are ordered randomly,
>> not alphabetically, so I corrected the language up top.
> 
> I would think a better option would be to fix the ordering so the page
> works as intended.

I discussed with Magnus off-list about that prior to submitting the page, he suggested to change the wording

> 
>> The second has to do with the language on the bottom of the page discussing
>> the sponsorship levels and selection process.  I reworded the sentences to
>> more clearly state the purpose of the sponsorship levels are and how they
>> are selected, maintaing a link to the guidelines on the wiki.
> 
> The wording there was pretty carefully chosen after a long discussion
> in the sponsor committee, so it shouldn't be changed on a whim. That
> said, I don't actually think your wording is an improvement (though, I
> may be biased as if memory serves I wrote that's there now).

Typo aside in the original text, reading through it did not make sense:

"Sponsorship levels are meant to provide the general public an idea of how levels are determined."

From that I glean that sponsorship levels tell me how sponsorship levels are determined.  Um...?

That said I understand that there was thought that went into the wording, particularly on the Wiki, thus I do not intend to throw everything out "on a whim," but that sentence is not clear at all.

I've included the patch with Thom's suggestions & fixes.

Jonathan



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  [application/octet-stream] 0001-Modified-text-on-sponsorship-page.patch (2.0K, 3-0001-Modified-text-on-sponsorship-page.patch)
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From 346516a00716d0a96f9981fd01136e632babe192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:42:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Modified text on sponsorship page

---
 templates/sponsors/sponsors.html |   20 ++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/templates/sponsors/sponsors.html b/templates/sponsors/sponsors.html
index 88b5dfc..45e6961 100644
--- a/templates/sponsors/sponsors.html
+++ b/templates/sponsors/sponsors.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <h1>Sponsors</h1>
 
 <p><span class="txtMediumGrey">The following is a categorized list of significant sponsors to PostgreSQL.
-Sponsors are listed in alphabetical order within each section, with just the location of the head office
+Sponsors are displayed in no particular order within each section, with just the location of the head office
 for each company shown.
 </span></p>
 
@@ -34,17 +34,13 @@ for each company shown.
 </div>
 
 <div class="tblBasic">
-<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tblBasicGrey">
-<tr class="lastrow">
-<th colspan="3">Sponsorship levels are meant to provide the general public and idea of how levels are determined.
-	They are not set in stone and all sponsorship recognition shall be determined on its own merits by the
-	<a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Sponsoring">Sponsorship Committee</a> as determined by a simple majority vote.
-</th>
-
-</tr>
-
-</table>
-
+	<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tblBasicGrey">
+		<tr class="lastrow">
+			<th colspan="3">
+				Sponsorship levels are meant to demonstrate the overall contributions of various organizations to PostgreSQL.  All sponsorship recognition is determined by a majority vote from the <a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Sponsoring">Sponsorship Committee</a> in accordance with <a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Sponsoring">these guidelines</a>.
+			</th>
+		</tr>
+	</table>
 </div>
 
 {%endblock%}
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