Re: development questions

Hello Dave, Alexey, everyone!
Just an idea.

If the main issue is time for the www leaders, like you and Marc, would
it help if someone (me) could make a voluntary donation (in money)
which can be used to further enhance some parts of the site? This could
pay your time or Marc's time as if it was a professional assignment.

I am personally work on the XML feature, I should have an alpha version
later tonight. But if the issue is the time, I could make such a
donation.

For the record I am doing this without any sort of hidden benefit. I
work full time as a College Professor so I do not have a development
company who might
possibly benefit from a new website functionality. My gesture is for
the good of the community.

Talking about the PHP world, which I am part of, I think there is a lot
of potential. People are using MySQL because has this myth of being
easier to use, but also
because they do have an excellent documentation (we have that too) and
because of the advocacy work.

I am ready to help out with some intensive advocacy to the PHP world.
If some new website functionality might help, why not ?

Cheers
David Costa

On Feb 16, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Dave Page wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexey Borzov [mailto:borz_off(at)cs(dot)msu(dot)su]
>> Sent: 16 February 2004 06:44
>> To: Dave Page
>> Cc: Robert Treat; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] development questions
>>
>> Heh, I don't think PostgreSQL community will be able to raise
>> *that* much money.
>> But I looked through pgsql-www archives and there were people
>> offering professional design for postgresql.org for free.
>> What prevents you from contacting them?
>
> As far as I'm aware in all cases we did, though it may have been
> off-list. Unfortunately many people don't necessarily expect you to say
> "yes please, that would be great - how do you think you can help?"
>
> Also don't forget that -www has manually approved subscriptions, so
> these offers on the list you speak of must have come from people that
> were already here and helping...
>
> Regards, Dave.
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