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Dave and I can make sure that the DB folks who come -- are not wearing vendor hats. At 02:14 PM 1/25/2008, Jacek Becla wrote: >Mike Stonebraker wrote: >>Dave or I can: >>invite the DB folks >>deal with Asilomar > >Great! > > >>My strong suggestion: have everybody pay their own way -- Asilomar >>will cost perhaps $500 (all food plus lodgings). It is too much >>effort to get sponsorship for this amount of money. > > >Ok. I think I will try a little bit, eg. I'll try asking some >big friends who couldn't help at the time we had the xldb workshop, >but promised to sponsor our next xldb-type event. I worry >some people will not attend because of the cost. >For example, it is unlikely we will convince Dirk to fly >from Geneva both for this meeting and for the planned >2nd xldb workshop. Sponsorship would certainly help. > > >>I strongly recommend "no vendors" > >I strongly agree too, however having said that, it is >getting harder every day to find true db researchers >not wearing any vendor hat. > >Thanks, >Jacek > >