Re: On future conferences
От | Tatsuo Ishii |
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Тема | Re: On future conferences |
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Msg-id | 20060922.213456.32729074.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | On future conferences (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>) |
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Re: On future conferences
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Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Hi, If you guys don't mind to have the conference in Japan next year, I would like to start discussions with JPUG/community/business people if we could do anything for this. What do you think? -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan > Hi all, > > Some of you will know that this summer's conference in Toronto was > mostly successful (we've been struggling with some blockers on > putting up all the conference materials, but I have been assured > several times that that state of affairs will end in the next few > days). Some of you will also know that we did some work to try to > find out what sort of future conference, if any, was desired by the > community. > > Based on the feedback we received, the community apparently wants a > combined user/hacker conference: that is, a conference that combines > the PostgreSQL-server developer tracks we saw at this year's > conference with some user-focussed items similar to what one might > find at typical database conferences for users. > > Such a conference is not free to put on, of course, and actually > requires a considerable amount of money in order to make it both > successful and accessible to community members. This year, we were > successful mostly because of the generosity of our many corporate > sponsors; we are thankful to them. This conference was necessarily > planned to be smaller than a combined conference would be, so we can > anticipate that a future conference would require more money than the > money required by the 2006 conference. > > Those who are in charge of the funds currently held by Software in > the Public Interest have a number of other projects besides a > conference they are hoping to support in the upcoming year. > Accordingly, the group has reached a consensus that 2007 is too soon > to plan to fund another conference. Accordingly, the 2006 conference > committee is not planning to try to organise a conference for 2007. > We believe that it would be in the best interests of everyone to plan > for a biennial conference, if we wish to have a repeating series, > rather than an annual one. So, in the unlikely event you were > holding your breath waiting for the announcement of next year's > conference, wait no more. > > Best regards, > Andrew Sullivan > (2006 PostgreSQL Summit committee chair) > > -- > Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca > Everything that happens in the world happens at some place. > --Jane Jacobs > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >
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