Re: request for sponsors page

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: request for sponsors page
Date: 2008-08-22 17:04:51
Message-ID: 200808221704.m7MH4pu27328@momjian.us
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>> No, I'm not because if you think we should start tracking and listing
> >>> everyone that gives us five bucks then you clearly need to come in out
> >>> of the sun for a while :-).
> >> Why not? It's the best way to increase the number of people who give us
> >> $5.
> >
> > Well, someone giving three qualified answers to a mailing list inquiry on a
> > user list is worth a lot more than five bucks of their time, and you surely
> > don't want to include that in your listing.
>
> I fail to see how this is an argument. We can't account for absolutely
> every last person who helps the project, so we shouldn't list any of them?

We can do that.

I think the big argument is that contribution attribution can easily
obscure our actual work, which could hurt us. Also, we are not as
dependent on funds like a typical non-profit.

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