Re: Changes to about/sponsors

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- --On Sunday, December 30, 2007 18:16:30 +0000 Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

>> Is there any reason we should group this by country at all? Today we
>> group by country without showing it, which is the worst possible
>> combination, IMHO. JD's patch changes it so we properly show that we're
>> grouping it by country. But why *are* we grouping it my country in the
>> first place? This is sponsors to the Global Development Group, why do we
>> care about what country they're in that much? I think we should just
>> re-order them alphabetically, and keep the country column where it is
>> now (when it's ordered alphabetically, it makes sense to keep it there)...
>
> +1

Just curious, but having it visibly sorted by country, is there any possibility
of provoking some sort of 'one up-mans-ship'? For somewhere like the US, not
so much so, but smaller companies in smaller countries might view a competitor
as having sponsored and decide to do so also ... I know that that is one of the
fundraising 'tricks' that you see used on tv telethons and such "so and so
sponsored $X and challenges others to meet or beat that" .. not saying to put
that text on the site, mind you ...

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