If you are a Postgres speaker and are traveling somewhere on vacation, have you ever considered making a Postgres presentation at your
vacation location? You might say, "I take vacations to get away from Postgres" — don't let me ever hear such crazy talk!
For example, six weeks before I left for a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, I sent an email to the advocacy list asking if anyone in the Dominican Republic would like to meet. (The mission trip blog has some humorous mentions of me.) I got a private reply that our public relations contact in that country would like a presentation or two. I ended up speaking to 85 students at a university in the Dominican city of Santiago.
What are the advantages of taking vacation time to present a talk about Postgres? Well, many of my most memorable travel experiences have been while as a guest of Postgres community members — a dacha in Russia, a cruise in Brazil, an elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka. These are not typical tourist sites, but are easily accessible with local friends. Even ordinary locations, like an office building or restaurant in Tokyo, is special because you are living as a Japanese — not something most non-Japanese experience, even as tourists.