Re: Need someone to design and "about 9.0" flyer - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Need someone to design and "about 9.0" flyer
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Msg-id 4CAAFC48.1080207@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Need someone to design and "about 9.0" flyer  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Re: Need someone to design and "about 9.0" flyer
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 02:07, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.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.

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Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD
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