Re: Party planning

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> (* = if you think that it's not a major and frightening hassle to visit the US
> these days, you clearly haven't traveled internationally for a while. As a
> US citizen, it took me nearly an hour of checks on the way back from Brazil.
> For actual foreigners, this is worse; one of the award recipients for the
> 2003 Oscars (a designer) was detained for 12 hours by the TSA. Here in San
> Francisco, we've noticed at 75% drop in international tourism.)

As a US citizen who has very recently travelled internationally (just got back
from Hong Kong yesterday), I vote for a non-US conference. I had no major problems
this trip, but saw many others who did. And the whole picture/fingerprint thing
is silly and insulting. I also vote for non-US because I like to travel :). Canada
gets my vote. It's actually one place in the world (Hong Kong being another, due
to their fixed USD-HKD conversion) where the exchange rate is not killing us
Americans who travel.

I also agree that we would need to move very soon on this. I like the idea of
"piggybacking" on an existing convention as well: either during or immediately
after, much as the Slony thing was last year the day after OSCON.

Maybe we should also start talking about making an annual "PostgreSQL Convention."
Probably too late for 2006, but we can aim for making a general conference
in 2007?

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