Re: Public registration promotion

[Bharath Acharya <abharath gnome org>]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 11:10 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote:
> 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.

Emily,

Can you send the registration mail to the Indian team in Oracle? Ask
them to provide their IDs. We can send them guest invites.

Regards,
Bharath

> 
> 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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