On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have the domain postgres9.org, which was used for the release
>> > party invitation.
>>
>> Wow! After all the concern about the "Great Leap Forward" phrase,
>> you did everything short of including a picture of Mao's Little Red
>> Book! I guess if you're going there, you might as well go right
>> over the top.... ;-)
>
> Agreed. I think we were OK with the phrase, but when I saw the hat on
> the elephant, that associated the phrase with Mao too closely, and too
> closely with the tens of millions killed:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Deaths_by_starvation
>
> Effectively, this is the same as saying, "Postgres 9: The Final
> Solution" and putting a Nazi arm band on the PG elephant.
>
> As you can tell, I am not happy with this, and have stated it privately
> already to the people involved. If we are going to be a professional
> organization, we should not be making mistakes like this.
I agree with you Bruce, but it is worth remembering why JPUG don't use
the Slonik mascot as well.
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