Re: Some comments on the marketing texts

I found Peter's critical input very informative and I agree with much of
it.  I don't think his intentention was to antagonize anyone,.  The work
you and others have done is very important to the Postgesql community
and we all recognize that.  Please don't take messages like this too
personally - not all that long ago there was no advocacy site to be
critical of, and that alone is a major accomplishment!  That being said,
there will always be room for improvement and this type of feedback is
important for the success of the advocacy site.

Let me know if I can help.  If you are interested in addressing some of
Peter's points I have some free time this weekend to research and make
suggestions for possible textual revisions.

-r

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 15:29, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter,
>
> > We intend to print some flyers for LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt at the end
> > of this month, using the texts on the advocacy pages.  But I have found
> > these texts to be disappointing.  They exaggerate boring features, they
> > are fuzzy on complex things rather than taking the time to explain them,
> > the arrangement and coherence of the points isn't all that great.
>
> As always, you find ways to offer help antagonistically. <sigh>
>
> Sure, the text at advocacy.postgresql.org could use an overhaul.    So?  Do
> it.  You know as well as I do that we don't have a PR agency to step in and
> take care of all of the tedious stuff for us.
>
> Actually, I need to develop such a paper for PHPCon.   Want to work together?
> Do you have any propaganda prepared?
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Ryan Mahoney <ryan@paymentalliance.net>