What about "Don't ignore the elephant in the room"?
On 5 September 2013 09:24, Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jean-Paul Argudo > <jean-p...@postgresql.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le jeudi 05 septembre 2013 à 12:33 +0530, Atri Sharma a écrit : > >> Make an elephant in a space suit, or with lots of equipments. Text: > >> 'Ready for mission critical systems' > > > > Despite I like this idea a lot, I think we should avoid messages like > > "Ready for.." or such, since it implies PG wasn't ready before, wich is > > mostly false in all the cases. > > > > I think we'd better focus on what we're good at, like community > > management, quality of code, respect of the standard, and such... or why > > not just jokes, since I think we could just make this simple and funny.. > > (I don't really think we have anything to proove anymore since facts > > talk for us). > > > > This could lead to positive messages like (just samples I tought about, > > and mostly to be rebranded completely!!): > > > > Focusing what we know best: > > > > * Community driven makes it just better > > * Our code matters more than their commercials (~Debian I know) > > * We are a few thousand only reviewing and testing it > > * Unbreakable Open-Source Community (if you know what I mean there) > > * etc.. > > > > Funnier messages: > > > > * My spouse told me to use it, I swear > > * PostgreSQL, saves money all around the world > > * """"""""""""""""" time """""""""""""""""""" > > * One rdbms to rule them all > > * Vulcains would use it > > * etc.. > > > > :-) > > > > Cheers, > > > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Heikki Linnakangas > >> <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > >> > Put a small elephant logo *inside* the mug. With a text: "also for > embedded > >> > systems" > >> > > >> > - Heikki > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > >> > To make changes to your subscription: > >> > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Jean-Paul > > > > Good one. > > One thing we could do, remove the 'Ready' and only keep 'For mission...'. > > Other thing is a lot of elephants sitting around a table with > laptops(optional) denoting our community. Or a lot of elephant heads > clustered together and smiling. An awesome community is something we > all are proud of! > > Regards, > > Atri > > > > -- > Regards, > > Atri > l'apprenant > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.
