Re: Party planning

btw,

what's about getting visa ? We, in Russia, need invitation to get visa.

Oleg
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
>> (* = 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?
>
> - --
> Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
> PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200508082129
> http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> iD8DBQFC+AebvJuQZxSWSsgRAuraAKCfmQBSIw4K03JAZNuEMfqh8pfyXQCg1roj
> D5pUlih8ElPQp+omxS1d1h4=
> =Ula7
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
>

Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83