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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