Thread: new /about/sponsors page?

new /about/sponsors page?

From
Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Date:
I just noticed we got a redesigned 
http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors a few weeks ago there are some 
things I would like to mention about that one. While I don't generally 
disagree with the direction this is heading towards I would really like 
to coment on a few things:

* afaik there was no public discussion that I'm aware on (except for 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2008-04/msg00018.php and 
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2008-08/msg00031.php both do 
not seem to have any kind of conclusion)
* who is part of the mentioned "sponsorship commitee"(is that the 
fundraising group, -core, -www, -advocacy or what?) and how can one 
contact it(nor URL or emailaddress is provided)?
* why is the page randomly mixing PostgreSQL(platinum,gold and silver) 
and postgresql.org(bronze) - the later is usually used to refer to 
infrastructure stuff and the former to the software product.
* why was hub.org(and some others) dropped from the list?
* can we rephrase ">X year" as "at least X years" or such to make it 
more obvious?
* do we really need that many categories? why not do what we did for the 
contributor listing - ie regular contributors and major ones?
* is Fujitsu really headquarted in .au or should we actually listen 
fastware as some sort of subsidiary?(this was probably wrong forever)



Stefan


Re: new /about/sponsors page?

From
Chander Ganesan
Date:
Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> I just noticed we got a redesigned 
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors a few weeks ago there are 
> some things I would like to mention about that one. While I don't 
> generally disagree with the direction this is heading towards I would 
> really like to coment on a few things:
>
> * afaik there was no public discussion that I'm aware on (except for 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2008-04/msg00018.php and 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2008-08/msg00031.php both do 
> not seem to have any kind of conclusion)
> * who is part of the mentioned "sponsorship commitee"(is that the 
> fundraising group, -core, -www, -advocacy or what?) and how can one 
> contact it(nor URL or emailaddress is provided)?
> * why is the page randomly mixing PostgreSQL(platinum,gold and silver) 
> and postgresql.org(bronze) - the later is usually used to refer to 
> infrastructure stuff and the former to the software product.
> * why was hub.org(and some others) dropped from the list?
> * can we rephrase ">X year" as "at least X years" or such to make it 
> more obvious?
> * do we really need that many categories? why not do what we did for 
> the contributor listing - ie regular contributors and major ones?
> * is Fujitsu really headquarted in .au or should we actually listen 
> fastware as some sort of subsidiary?(this was probably wrong forever)
On that same note, I've been told for over two years now that there 
would be some recognition for financial contributors as well.  What 
happened to that?  Is there documentation somewhere that lists how the 
different sponsorship levels are determined (i.e., how did company A get 
to be "Platinum", was it an arbitrary decision by someone, was there 
some formula that determined that). 

On another note (but somewhat related), there should be something in 
place to at the very least, send a "thank you" letter to financial 
contributors.  When OTG makes a contribution, we're not so much 
interested in the "thank you" as we are in hearing from someone that my 
contribution to PostgreSQL through SPI got dumped in the correct 
"bucket" (i.e., didn't get allocated to some other project).  In any 
case, a thank you would perhaps encourage donors to continue to donate...

I would assume that a set of criteria would also help companies that 
want to be more involved and receive recognition for their involvement.  
They could use the criteria as a guideline as to how to get on that list.

For example, Josh (Berkus) had one told me that being on the sponsors 
page required that you employ a developer...that's something that is on 
a longer-term list for us (now that we know about it...)

-- 
Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
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http://www.otg-nc.com



Re: new /about/sponsors page?

From
Robert Treat
Date:
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 09:42:02 Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> I just noticed we got a redesigned
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors a few weeks ago there are some
> things I would like to mention about that one. While I don't generally
> disagree with the direction this is heading towards I would really like
> to coment on a few things:
>
> * who is part of the mentioned "sponsorship commitee"(is that the
> fundraising group, -core, -www, -advocacy or what?) and how can one
> contact it(nor URL or emailaddress is provided)?

There is no official contact method that I am aware of, but all of them are 
subscribed to pgsql-www afaik. :-)

> * why is the page randomly mixing PostgreSQL(platinum,gold and silver)
> and postgresql.org(bronze) - the later is usually used to refer to
> infrastructure stuff and the former to the software product.

I think the right answer here is "it was done randomly". Joshua is in the 
process of cleaning that up. 

> * can we rephrase ">X year" as "at least X years" or such to make it
> more obvious?

+1

> * is Fujitsu really headquarted in .au or should we actually listen
> fastware as some sort of subsidiary?(this was probably wrong forever)
>

The multinational fujitsu is headquarted in Japan, but the fast guys are out 
of .au.  When we added them previously, they said they wanted to be listed as 
fujitsu but with headquarters in .au, so thats what we did. 

-- 
Robert Treat
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