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Re: Time to update list of contributors


  • From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
  • Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Time to update list of contributors
  • Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:37:09 -0800
  • Message-id: <20071128123709(dot)6cefd2b8(at)commandprompt(dot)com>

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:24:42 -0800
Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> WWW,
> 
> > > Yeah, I assembled that list for FOSS.In.  In some countries, like
> > > India and Brazil, there's the perception that you have to be
> > > American to be an OSS contributor.  I'm trying to show people
> > > otherwise.
> >
> > Weird... considering how many of our contributors are not in the US.
> 
> Could we consider putting countries in the Contributors list at some
> point?  I think it would encourage more people from outside the US to
> become contributors.  Currently the project is imbalanced, with 2/3
> of our users outside the US (or more) and 1/2 our contributors inside
> the US.  A lot of that has to do with employers, of course, but we
> should give all the encouragement we can.
> 

postgres=# select .5 + .66;
 ?column? 
- ----------
     1.16
(1 row)

??

:)

Other than that... sure I don't see a problem with it but one step at a
time :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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