Re: Purpose of the European PostgreSQL Group

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Matteo Beccati wrote:
> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> >>I agree, my only concern being that people living in countries with a
> >>local user group are required to pay, while others are not (if PG-EU
> >>membership is free). To me, it's somewhat discouraging people to form
> >>local groups.
> >
> >That is up to your local group. My objection was that your local group
> >should not pay a membership fee to the eu group.
>
> I see. And I have no objections on that: PG-EU shouldn't need any money
> from members. But honestly, I'm afraid that most if not all of local
> groups will need a membership fee to be able to cover the basic costs.

Yes and in this case it seems a good idea not to take some of the money
away to the EU group. Instead we should try to support the local groups
with money we can get from let's say sponsoring or merchandising.

Kind regards

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group