Re: is there any policy on event sponsors?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 20:09, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 25, 2011, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Not sure if this is the right list for this but...
>>>
>>> I'm planning (and this time it seems i will success) a PGDay in Ecuador,
>>> after a few tries this time it seems there is enough interest so people
>>> will assist and some will talk, and i could even get some government support ...
>>>
>>> now, someone working on MS's interoperatibility team has offered a talk
>>> about interoperatibility of PG with MS's tools (talk that i will accept)
>>> and a sponsorship for the event from MS. Now, in this last point i'm not
>>> so sure about what to do... my feelings say no, but that's just an
>>> alergic reaction instead of a reasonable one.
>>>
>>> So, do we have some policy about this kind of things? or is just the event's
>>> organizer decision?
>>
>> It's up to the event organiser. Personally though I believe with a
>> handful of exceptions, any sponsorship from major companies is a good
>> thing for the project. It boosts our image and credibility in the eyes
>> of people outside the community.
>>
>> An example of a company I would consider an exception to that would be SCO.
>>
>> In the case of Microsoft, they have previously supported us by giving
>> us licences for Windows and Visual Studio - and remember they are a
>> big company with lots of business units, many of which are interested
>> in supporting all popular DBMSs, not just their own (i imagine thats
>> particularly the case for the interop guys).
>>
>
> +1 to Dave's thoughts here. This talk proposal actually sounds
> potentially useful, and we certainly have a wide number of users who
> work with Postgres and some part of the Windows stack, so I think
> fostering that relationship is probably a good thing; if it were me,
> I'd be happy to have the talk and the sponsorship.

+1 as well.

I might be a little bit concerned with the "image" if MS was the
*only* sponsor, but not otherwise.

As for the talk, I'd definitely accept it (assuming the abstract looks
good, but it sounds like it does)

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