I am willing to talk to anyone about this. There is a reason my phone number is in my signature (note new phone number; I just moved.)
Also, I am willing to make trips to companies to talk about PostgreSQL. I can't make 100's of trips a year, but I try to do at least on a month. I just did one last week. If your company is interested in funding or a visit to talk about PostgreSQL, I am ready. Also, for the advocacy site, I will be putting together a list of people around the world who are ready to talk via phone or visit about PostgreSQL. I am a little bogged down on the pre-beta issue, but plan to hit this full force once beta begins. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Sullivan wrote: > I think I spelled -advocacy correctly this time. > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:34:13PM +0200, Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig wrote: > > I think it would be a huge benefit for the community to have some more > > company-funding. This would lead to the implementation of some features > > people need urgently (replication in the core and so forth). On the > > > For a company PostgreSQL definitely is an interesting area to invest > > because it has proven to be a good product and there are just minor > > things (sync. replication - eg. Postgres-R) missing to make it a real > > enterprise database. The support of the community of more than just > > optimal and it is an interesting subject. > > > Also: It would be interesting to have a special section on the website > > where people can post that they need money to implement something really > > useful. I guess there'd be a lot of people who'd pay for replication or > > things like that if they knew more. > > Some time ago, I posted that I was looking for people interested in > making the replication stuff complete. I'm still working on that > (and I _may_ be getting somewhere, BTW), but there is a lot of work > to be done there, and I think quite a bit of high-quality code needs > to be written. And that high-quiality code requires high-quality > developers. > > Now, it strikes me that sometimes, several companies might be able to > afford to subsidise this sort of development, if only they had a way > of getting together to do this. I find that the corporate folks here > really like the idea of "co-development". The idea is to spread the > risk, where everyone gets the return. Can anyone think of an idea of > how to set up some sort of organisation to do this? Or maybe, are > commercial organisations like PostgreSQL the best answer? The > problem is frequently that the names of the funders frequently need > to remain secret-ish, because a lot of companies are reluctant to > discuss using Postgres. > > Any suggestions? I know I'd have an easier sell to support this sort > of development if we didn't have to foot the whole bill. > > A > > -- > ---- > Andrew Sullivan 87 Mowat Avenue > Liberty RMS Toronto, Ontario Canada > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M6K 3E3 > +1 416 646 3304 x110 > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
