Re: request for sponsors page - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: request for sponsors page
Date
Msg-id 200808221704.m7MH4pu27328@momjian.us
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In response to Re: request for sponsors page  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-www
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>> No, I'm not because if you think we should start tracking and listing
> >>> everyone that gives us five bucks then you clearly need to come in out
> >>> of the sun for a while :-).
> >> Why not?  It's the best way to increase the number of people who give us
> >> $5.
> > 
> > Well, someone giving three qualified answers to a mailing list inquiry on a 
> > user list is worth a lot more than five bucks of their time, and you surely 
> > don't want to include that in your listing.
> 
> I fail to see how this is an argument.  We can't account for absolutely 
> every last person who helps the project, so we shouldn't list any of them?

We can do that.

I think the big argument is that contribution attribution can easily 
obscure our actual work, which could hurt us.  Also, we are not as
dependent on funds like a typical non-profit.

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