Re: On what we want to support: travel?

Peter, Greg,

> > See, I was trying to avoid this because I don't think that we can make
> > hard-and-fast rules about priorities by category. For example, a full
> > membership in TPC is $20,000 and we'd be unlikely to be listened to
> > even as full members. Would you rate that over paying for 15
> > different trips by PostgreSQL keynote speakers to South America, Asia
> > and the Middle East, each speaking to between 200 and 3000 people? I
> > wouldn't.
>
> On this particular point, I have the opposite opinion.

Can you explan why? I'm not clear on your priorities.

Please note that the TPC thing was just a hypothetical extreme example,
since as an NPO we can join TPC for $1500 per year. On the other hand,
it's a good example, because a TPC membership does us no good if nobody
attends the TPC meetings ... which gets us into paying for travel again.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco