On May 22, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:51:23PM -0700, Dirk Riehle wrote:
>> Before anyone gets upset: These academic conference are comparatively
>> cheap, certainly cheaper than commercial conferences, and they are
>> budgeted to break even (non-profit behind it). But of course it is
>> more expensive than a free unconference or something.
>
> Also, it's part of academics' jobs to go to such conferences, so they
> often have an allowance that can be used to pay for this sort of
> thing.
And if people want to present on Postgres I believe funds could be
allocated from SPI for that.
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