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From: Rajesh Sharma <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Major donors (was: Where to put the new donations page?)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:33:29 +0400
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How about even having, sort of "Ambassadors" of Postgresql for specific
country/region/state/city.
Actively participating people/person to whom locallly others can contact,
ofcourse the pug prevails.

--Rajesh.

On 3/22/06, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> Well, this is my general idea.  We'd divide the sponsors page into:
>
> Code Contributors
>        current developer sponsors here
>
> Hosting Sponsors
>        hub, ehpg, cmd, etc.
>
> Financial Sponsors
>        Major Sponsors
>                $10,000+ annual corporate gifts
>        Sponsors
>                other corporate gifts, $1000-$10,000
>                plus in-kind support
>        Individuals (link to page)
>
> However, the "ad-hoc fundraising group" has yet to discuss actual donor
> levels.  Plus, "Financial Sponsors" *must* include donors to JPUG,
> PostgresqlFR and FFIV Germany as well as PostgreSQL at SPI.
>
> I've thought about some relativist approaches but they don't really seem
> appropriate for a donor credits page -- all they would do is result in the
> big companies giving less, which is not what we want.
>
> Oh, one more note:  I'd like to phase out the banner ads by using sponsor
> listings instead.  No other major OSS project I know of uses banners ads
> on their site; it's time to shut them down.
>
> --
> --Josh
>
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
>

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