What if smaller not-quite-trade-shows were held in different cities? I would be
*very* interested in sponsering short seminars that simply market Pg and maybe
show some demo's and discuss thinks like migrate to Pg, Administration, IDE
options, etc.
I used to rent meeting rooms at hotels for another venture and that is a pretty
cheap thing to do (include the coffee, tea, cheese, yada-yada-yada). The
questions is how to get folks to attend...
..sound like mail stuffing party to me!
Quoting Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>:
> Dennis,
>
> > But others are right. We need someone like IBM is to Linux, or Apple is to
>
> Konqueror. Someone who puts a lot of time and money into the product for
> their own selfish interests, but then releases it.
>
> I'd like a little funding, just for Trade shows. Heck, I'd go to 6 shows a
> year for PostgreSQL, if someone would pay me to do it.
>
> But getting dependant on funding from one company for development is
> dangerous. Talk to the Apache folks about their relationship to IBM, or the
>
> Mozilla folks about AOL, or the Gnome folks, or anyone on OpenOffice.org
> about Sun ... even where the project works well (like those) the participants
>
> spend a *lot* of time politicking with the sponsor -- some months, more time
>
> than you spend developing.
>
> We are gratefully free of that, and you don't know how good that is until
> you've had to deal with the opposite.
>
> --
> -Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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