Re: Need someone to design and "about 9.0" flyer

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: rod(at)iol(dot)ie
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need someone to design and "about 9.0" flyer
Date: 2010-10-05 10:30:31
Message-ID: AANLkTikQayaaLtkEiMrzfKQ-WhxuJAKLA=k_OEsoj6Qz@mail.gmail.com
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On 5 October 2010 11:29, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> On 05/10/2010 11:22, Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 02:07, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Also, what do people think of the slogan "PostgreSQL's Great Leap
>>>> Forwards"? It's been used a couple of times, but I'm concerned about
>>>> offending Chinese and Chinese-American members of our community. How
>>>
>>> Wow, I don't even understand why it would be offensive. But I don't
>>> doubt you when you say so. (feel free to explain off-list, but it's
>>> very much off-topic on list, I think)
>>
>> The explanation is pretty quick: the first paragraph of
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward tells why it's really
>> not a good slogan to use. Lots of bad sentiment attached to that
>> particular phrase. I like "Replication Made Easy" too.
>
> +1 on not using "Great Leap Forward".
>
> I like "PostgreSQL Reloaded" - but I'm a Matrix fan. :-)

And it's a prelude to a PostgreSQL Revolution ;)

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