Re: Release Candidate of the PostgreSQL Europe association statutes

On 15/01/2008, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:50:03AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> > On 14/01/2008, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
> > > I see another issue with that "not-so-automatic" membership for the members of
> > > the local groups. If we do that, we will have to synchronize the member
> > > lists on a regular basis from the local groups to the European group. I know
> > > this is piece of cake for lots of people here, but is it necessary ?
> >
> > If we don't automatically maintain the dual membership, I can see us
> > rapidly getting into a situation where some people try to join PG-EU,
> > some their local group, and some both. Many users that are less
> > passionate than us probably won't bother to join 2 users groups, so we
> > end up with a situation where the local and EU groups are effectively
> > in competition with each other for the membership.
>
> Does it have to be *automatic*? Can't we just have people register for
> PG-EU and on the registration they specify "already member of pgsql-it" for
> example. If we're not charging money, it's not so critical.

It doesn't have to be automatic per se - any mechanism will do as long
as it ensures that people must join their local user group (if there
is one) before they join PG-EU to avoid any sort of competition
between groups.

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