Re: List of prominent users - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: List of prominent users
Date
Msg-id 20051206204737.GK16053@nasby.net
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In response to Re: List of prominent users  (Robert Bernier <robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca>)
List pgsql-advocacy
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:12:27AM -0500, Robert Bernier wrote:
> On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:57, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > People:
> > > My 2 cents... It is common practice to list customers on web sites. It's
> > > also common for companies to ask to be removed. I suggest we just put up
> > > the list, and take people off if they ask.
> >
> > Given that the reason for the list is to create postive PR for us, we
> > only want to list companies who will say good things about us if
> > contacted.  As such, only companies who are explicitly OK with being
> > listed should be.
>
> Here's a thought, suppose we add a small script, as part of a postgres install, that offers to send info to the
communityabout themselves and what they intend to do with it. I'm thinking something along the lines of what openoffice
does.This would probably be best implemented in a distribution (Debian, Red Hat, FreeBSD etc). We could add it to the
windowsinstall program.  

It's been brought up before. At best, it would just serve to improve the
reliability of our numbers WRT how many users installed a given version
of PostgreSQL.
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