Re: What should we focus on wrt the home page

On Thursday 12 June 2008 13:02:55 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:26 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 June 2008 23:20:45 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 22:58 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 03:58:40 Dave Page wrote:
> > >
> > > OSCON and PGCON are responsible for their own promotion. As pgfoundry
> > > is an official PostgreSQL supported project, it deserves more face time
> > > than either of those two. One option would be to have:
> >
> > We
> > should be promoting those events that rally our existing community and
> > help raise exposure for Postgres outside of the community, no matter who
> > runs them.
>
> Uhh yeah... O.k. then I want CMD to have a big splash across the screen,
> let's not forget EDB and Truviso. :P
>

Note I said we need to promote the *events*, not the people behind them. If
your going to make attempts at reductio ad absurdum, at least have the
decency to read the posts you respond to.

> Seriously though, I wasn't suggesting we not list OSCON or PGCON, but
> they can be listed in events and news and they can blog and we can grab
> their feeds, we don't need to give them "special" attention.
>
> Special attention should be limited specifically to community. That is
> how you are going to drive a larger community, by reinforcing the
> community itself. Not by becoming advertising space.
>

PGCon happens to be the largest dedicated gathering of postgresql contributors
in the world, and one of the largest conferences dedicated toward postgresql
in general. (You might know this if you bothered to show up to one :-P )

Further, when the PostgreSQL project takes part in evetns like OSCon, GSoC, or
LinuxWorld, it helps raise the status of the project outside of our
community. Because of that, it's in our best interest to make sure as much
of the community can attend these events, so people can see that we have a
large, vibrant community behind the project.

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Robert Treat
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