Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ... Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems. In fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us they

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Would this be at all useful? Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through paypal. Marc G. Fournier

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-21 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Would this be at all useful? Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge? If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through paypal.

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-20 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into gear. Greg? What's our status for setup? My goal is to have everything done by January 31st. Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects.

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: Alternately, maybe it's time to try to get the fundraising operation into gear. Greg? What's our status for setup? My goal is to have everything done by January 31st. Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-20 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. Uh ... there is no PostgreSQL project on SourceForge, AFAIK.

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON 2004

2003-12-20 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of fund raising, SourceForge has just started a 'donations' system whereby people can donate money to projects. Maybe you want to enable it on the PostgreSQL project. Uh ... there is no