>
> We do want to "reward" companies for supporting PostgreSQL development,
> and have in the past noted which companies sponsored certain features.
> Otherwise this source of development funding will dry up, and it's easy
> enough for us to give a company a few lines on a web page.
>
Hey,
I'm not answering this question and I may be too naïve again but why
don't we just let those companies communicate with their own PR teams,
and emphasize on the features they've sponsored/developed ?
It seems to me that when we'll launch the 9.4 Press Kit, if multiple
companies would join the party and publish their own PR, with a focus on
what they think is important, it would create a positive mass-effect.
Sure this is not the way regular PR are made. Traditional editors have 1
single signal and a big expensive PR company to broadcast it everywhere.
Obviously we don't have that kind of fire power. So going with multiple
companies launching different flavored announces is a nice way to show
that we're different that other RDBMS, not only from a code perspective,
but also in the way we work together. Medium is the message, as they say.
This might be confusing for some journalist but I'm pretty sure that if
on the same day someone receives the several 9.4 announces from say, Red
Hat, EnterpriseDB, Engine Yard, Heroku, 2ndQuadrant and VMware, with a
different focus in each message, he/she will think that this is a big
deal. At least it would have a better impact that the pg.org regional
contacts alone, trying to do their best with the limited time, knowledge
and energy they have.
For me instead going on an endless thread to choose which companies the
9.4 press kit should endorse officially, I think we should push the
various PostgreSQL sponsors PR teams to collaborate on certain things,
just like these companies collaborate at the code level. I realize what
a culture change it is but I think it's worth trying. At least making
these people talk to each other would be a nice first step. Otherwise I
think we're gonna be stuck in this sterile corporate vs. community
opposition for a long time.
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Damien Clochard