Svein Erling Tysvær wrote:

> --- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Gerevich Janos wrote:
>> Doing a thesis on Firebird has loads of very appealing positives,
>> one of the biggest being doing something that actually helps
>> progress and gets used (the problem with the whole so-called
>> scientific and research area is that it's really 99% bogus, nothing
>> to do with real practice). On the other hand it involves digging
>> deep into firebird, of which I hardly have any knowledge. Having
>> lots of experienced people and equipments directly at hand makes
>> staying at Ericsson's idea much more comfortable.
>
> 13. - 15. november there will be plenty of experienced Firebirders
> relatively nearby: The Firebird Conference in Prague will attract the
> most skilled people in the community. To mention too few: Jim
> Starkey/Ann Harrison (inventor and mother of InterBase), Dmitry
> Yemanov (main Firebird developer), Helen Borrie (writer of the
> Firebird Book and support queen) and IB Phoenix (probably all
> employees?). And plenty of others are coming from all around the world
> (well, at least Europe, North and South America and Australia). Take a
> look at
> http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=fb_conf_timetable
>

Don't you think the price he'd pay for attending the conference is quite
high? At least for a typical Central European student. I'd be insanely
happy if I'd be able to see those people, but given the price, I will
definitely prefer investing those money into my new bathroom, even
though i'm writing this letter from a place 1.2 km north from the
location in question. I'm sad to say that, but OracleWorld some time
earlier was much cheaper for a student I was then. :-/

Jakub Hegenbart