Re: New Banner Ad Programme(s)

Marc, Robert:

Following is my first draft of text for the upcoming PostgreSQL Fund and the
new Banner Ad program. For Robert's benefit, I have attached Marc's original
e-mail at the bottom.

Subject: PostgreSQL Advocacy Fund and New Banner Ads

POSTGRESQL ADVOCACY FUND

Robert Treat has been selected by the Core Team as Treasurer for our new
PostgreSQL Advocacy Fund. Robert will soon be setting up an account in the
U.S. for receiving donations for the promotion of PostgreSQL. This fund will
be used primarily to print promotional materials and provide travel and trade
show funding, and will be managed by the Core team based on recommendations
from the PGSQL-ADVOCACY mailing list. Once the fund is ready, we will make
an announcement explaining how to donate.

NEW BANNER AD POLICY FOR POSTGRESQL.ORG

You will have noticed the two banner advertisements on each PostgreSQL.org web
site. The PostgreSQL Core Team has decided on a new policy whereby these
ads will benefit the project and our community.

One advertisement is a Sponsorship Banner Ad. It will be advertised to
commercial companies who wish to reach the rather specialized target market
of PostgreSQL users and developers. The revenue from this ad will be split:
50% will go into the PostgreSQL Advocacy Fund, and the other 50% will go to
Hub.org to compensate hosting costs for the PostgreSQL.org domain.

If you work for a computer hardware, software, or services company which might
be interested in supporting PostgreSQL and reaching an audience of
programmers and database administrators, please contact Hub.org about posting
an ad. Details are at: http://www.postgresql.org/sponsor.html

The second advertisement is a Free Open Source Banner Ad, which is available
to other Open Source projects which relate to PostgreSQL in some way. For
those of you who participate in other OSS projects, you are encouraged to
design and submit ads for this spot. For details, see:
http://www.postgresql.org/project.html

-Josh Berkus

> Can you write up something nice, based on below, that I can send out to
> -announce?
>
> Thanks ...
>
> ======================
>
> Just a quick announcement that we've revised the banner ad program on our
> web sites ...
>
> There are currently two different programs in operation ...
>
> The first is a Sponsorship Banner Ad, geared towards PostgreSQL-related
> companies (web hosting, support, software, etc) that with to advertise
> their services to a very target'd market ... 50% of all revenues from this
> program goes to a new Advocacy Fund being managed by Robert Treat ...
>
> For details, please see:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/sponsor.html
>
> The second is an OSS Banner Ad ... this program is geared towards
> PostgreSQL-related Open Source software, and is a *FREE* banner ...
>
> For details, please see:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/project.html

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco