Re: Main page: about us

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

mdean wrote:

> I would be much more comfortable with the postgresql community if its 
> front page were more informative and sales oriented to general newbies 
> from all walks of life, without making unverifiable assumptions that 
> "everyone knows".  People are not going to be sold on postgresql because 
> of an elephant button, or a long winded fact page that only programmers 
> understand, or a reference CD nobody will use.  I would like to see 
> sales oriented stuff on the top turf:: vision statement, philosophy of  
> the community (see Debian and Gentoo), motto,  value proposition, goals 
> and objectives, etc.  devote the entire one third left column to 
> testimonials from companies using pg, and finally, if you are going to 
> change the name, keep it to two syllables that are conceptual in nature, 
> not an insider's reference to the past.  JMTCWAAN

This opinion I concur with.  We could even have a
two-conceptual-syllabes nice name:  Postgres.

Not that I'm up for doing any of this though, but talk is cheap.

(What's a conceptual syllabe anyway?)

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