Re: On what we want to support: travel?

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:59:20AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
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>> So far, the consensus is that our priorities are as follows:
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> I don't see any consensus at all.  So far, almost everyone who has
> had anything to say about this is in fact a member of the funds
> group.  That makes me pretty uneasy.
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>> I haven't seen any disagreement with that specific ranking of priorities,
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> I have: we just had someone objecting to the very idea of either
> speaker subsidies or trade show booths.  And that was one of the only
> people who are not part of the funds group to speak.
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When I made a suggestion to Josh Berkus that all of those things in
priority 2 needed to be broken out, and when I suggested that the broad
membership be given a chance to rank more highly specified items, and
when I suggested that trade shows and booths be ranked as well, in terms
of attendance, control and size, Josh summarily dismissed my suggestions
aS BEING A WASTE OF TIME!  I was about to leave the group in disgust --
in the past I offered to buy space on the website, to write, etc. but
his summary dismissal of what to me is just plain common sense made me
mad!  I realize that everyone is a volunteer, but ...