Re: On what we want to support: travel?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

> 2) PostgreSQL promotional speaker travel, promotional literature and CDs,
> memberships in appropriate external organizations, paid development and
> testing tools, and development of PostgreSQL features, with specific
> tradeoffs to be determined by cost/benefit analysis.
...
> So if someone disagrees with any of the above, how about some specific
> points of disagreement with arguments backing them up?

Well, number 2 could certainly be broken apart a little bit. Specifically,
I'd list the priorities therein as:

1) Membership in important organizations
2) Promotional literature
3) Paid development work
4) Speaker travel

Number three is important but probably unlikely outside of a bounty/summer of
code thing, due to the heavy costs and legalities involved in employing someone
full time. Number four is usually handled by people's employers, and should be
a fairly rare event. Numbers one and two are most important as they spread
Postgres' credibility with managmement and help people to
explain/advocate/discover Postgres.

I'd also put infrastructure lower than all of those, only because lack of
funds seems not to be the issue there, judging by the number of companies
and individuals who have offered to help out.

- --
Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200610301601
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iD8DBQFFRmhNvJuQZxSWSsgRAnWzAJ4+6BtAmvRaclbSh+pS/TeF/0dI7ACgoW+S
FUboaRxsWzeAK0IBmz+fJSM=
=fOzr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----