Re: Public registration promotion

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 03/05/2011 11:00 AM, Bharath Acharya wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 10:43 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote:
> > On 03/03/2011 09:00 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > Here is a report for public registration. We started registration
> > > yesterday. So far we have 5 people registered. 1 student and 4 delegate.
> > > 3 registration on March 2nd and 2 on March 3rd today. So it's time to
> > > discuss about how to promote the event.
> > Hi!
> >
> > We haven't seen any progress on the registration count. Obviously we
> > have an issue with either the promotion of event in India or the cost?
> > Last year we got 1000+ registration in less than 2 hours and I'm not
> > sure what were the figures for 2008. Maybe Emily can fill us on this.
> >
> > So while sponsorship, talks and everything else seems to be doing ok, it
> > would be sad to have an great event without participants.
> >
> > What do you (local) guys suggest and how can we quickly remedy to this
> > situation?
> I have asked a few marketing guys to use their channels to spread the
> message in all engineering colleges in Bangalore.
>
> We should see some traffic in the next week. We'll also brainstorm to
> see how to rope in more interested people sooner.

Since we have enough sponsors now, we can also consider to allow an 
option to join the summit for free :)
while find a way to be fair to those who registered already, e.g. not 
include lunch if they register for free and so on, let's think more!

Pockey

> Regards,
> Bharath
>
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Fred
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