Re: Speakers Wanted for pgDay Cuba

Hi Josh

Thank you for your answer.

> > Strictly speaking, I am not a contributor (yet). I already planned to
> > be in La Habana in October and fortunately the financial aspect is
> > already solved through a mix of company and private funds.
>
> Good, because the US funds restictions are cumbersome. Are you speaking?

Yes I am. I will give a workshop on authorization in PostgreSQL: https://postgresql.uci.cu/

> These are specific to the US. Just because diplomatic relations are resumed
> doesn't mean all restrictions are lifted.
>
> > I am asking out of curiosity, because the idea sounds quite bizarre in
> > my ears.
>
> It's US international relations. If you expect it to make sense, you'll hurt your
> brain.

As a matter of fact, according to what I saw on the links sent by Adrian and some additional documents that I found following them, there has been an amendment on this regulation. I will send some more information on that in the response to Adrian, but to put is short, attending a conference falls into one of 12 categories for general authorized travel, making life easier for participants.

Bye
Charles