Re: Vote on Windows installer links

Folks,
Not to divert, subvert or otherwise vert, but maybe the time has
arrived where squeezing this lemon could be productive.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Simon Riggs<simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:41 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Overall: your posts on this list for the last few days (frankly, the
>> last few weeks) have taken on the appearance of a vendetta.
>
> I would ask you now why it is that we should act to remove a company's
> links on the training pages, yet do nothing to remove EDB's links on the
> installer pages? Why is complaining about a training company acceptable,
> yet saying anything involving EDB a vendetta?
>

1) I'll make a monetary contribution to the general coffers.
2) Find a wikigeek
3) Rearrange, make cool the home page of the wiki:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Main_Page
so that it is a more effective 'start page', as with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
4) Make sure there are direct listings for categories such as
Commercial/Businesses/Developers.
5) Make a few Info boxes and Templates that can be easily adapted or
included. Now, it is a pain & requires more effort than necessary to
create new wiki pages that are not butt-ugly.

This will level the playing field for small vs 'big', which I believe
will help promote the cause. Like it or not, marketing needs to be
part of the mix - but - it could be done off the main site while
giving significant exposure to the project & those entrepreneurial
vendors that are willing to assume the risks of building a business
around PostgreSQL.

Make the wiki more accessible and easier to use - and over time (not
immediately), the general discussion about "fair vs unfair" will
become moot.

My $.02,
with an additional $499.98 available.

Mike Ellsworth