Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Some advocacy suggestions

[Joshua D. D. <jd...@co...>]

On 05/14/2012 12:47 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:

>
>     3. Michael's blog is great but there should be a project wide blog so
>     the project does not appear to be a one person project.
>
> This would be great. I don't have time to take care of that myself these
> days.
> But I could write posts on it.

CMD would be willing to help on this but I would need to know some 
requirements from the project.

>
>     4. Send English announcements on EST time. This will garner you the most
>     eyeballs between the States and Europe.
>
> Based in Japan... This doesn't help...

Perhaps it would be helpful if I knew the advocacy goals of the project?


>     6. With 1.0, you will want to get some quotes from some industry players
>     that are not a major supporter. Instead focus on people from the other
>     consulting companies and even better, a real user if possible.
>
> This is a great idea.
>
> Based on your ideas, I would say that a blog would not be enough to
> serve the purpose of the project, something more global is needed with,
> and the blog articles, let's say about development, would only be a
> section of it.
> It could also contain links to redirect to the tarballs downloadable on
> SourceForge, and package mirrors. Quotes could also be a part of it.

Well that sounds like just a more complete website in general running on 
something like Joomla or Drupal. Thoughts?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
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