Re: On what we want to support: infrastructure?

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Matteo,
>
> >While you may not have the need to get paying advertisers, I feel that
> >rotating ads of open source projects which use pgsql was an interesting
> >idea, even though it was partly abandoned during the site restyle.
> >
> >There is a fairly good number of monthly ad impressions (without banners
> >on the home page) and it's just a pity to avoid using them.
>
> Hmmm ... we can re-discuss this.  The reason for removing them is that
> *paid* ads detract from our image as a serious, well supported, mature
> OSS project.  Look for other major OSS projects who run paid ads on
> their home page ... there aren't any.
>
> Now, if we wanted to make those ads exclusively for PG-supporting OSS
> projects and for major donors to postgresql.org (and I'm talking
> $10,000+ per year here) then it might be worth revisiting.

+1, especially on the OSS projects front. I think it's very important
for the community for people to see us as a very viable alternative to
MySQL.
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