Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-20 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > or is the real > problem that it'd take a whole lot of both OO-fu and Postgres-fu? > If so, can we find someone with the former nature to collaborate with? OO-Fu, mostly. I've already posted to the DBA project on OOo. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco -

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-19 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus writes: Other projects need even more intensive coding help. OpenOffice, for example, doesn't offer the Postgres driver by default because it's still too buggy. That seems like something that it'd be worth our while to help fix. +1 (or +10 if that's not to pig

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: > Other projects need even more intensive coding help. OpenOffice, for > example, > doesn't offer the Postgres driver by default because it's still too buggy. That seems like something that it'd be worth our while to help fix. Does anyone have a handle on what the problem

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-19 Thread Josh Berkus
Michael, Howdy, glad to see you came back. > 1. We should treat all marketing efforts by hackers/programmers as > social bugs. Get some marketing pros (debuggers) in on this, or the > popularity of postgresql will continue to pale in the real world. Not really in line with PostgreSQL's "person

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Toward A Positive Marketing Approach.

2006-05-18 Thread elein
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:32:51PM -0700, Michael Dean wrote: > Greetings Guys > > As a newbie person moving away from my technical background to > marketing, I think a refreshed course for pg is needed! So far I have > read all 5000 or so of this month's emails and want to make a few > remark