Re: Release Candidate of the PostgreSQL Europe association statutes

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:50:03AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On 14/01/2008, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> wrote:
> > I see another issue with that "not-so-automatic" membership for the members of
> > the local groups. If we do that, we will have to synchronize the member
> > lists on a regular basis from the local groups to the European group. I know
> > this is piece of cake for lots of people here, but is it necessary ?
>
> If we don't automatically maintain the dual membership, I can see us
> rapidly getting into a situation where some people try to join PG-EU,
> some their local group, and some both. Many users that are less
> passionate than us probably won't bother to join 2 users groups, so we
> end up with a situation where the local and EU groups are effectively
> in competition with each other for the membership.

Does it have to be *automatic*? Can't we just have people register for
PG-EU and on the registration they specify "already member of pgsql-it" for
example. If we're not charging money, it's not so critical.

//Magnus