Re: Student training

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 03/14/2011 12:39 PM, Akhil Laddha wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 18:07 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote:
> > Dear Akhil,
> >
> > It's time to open registration of student training :-)
> >
> > It seems that there are quite some students interested in attending
> > these GNOME training, can we consider to allow students to register
> > the training together with the conference (with DoAttend for the price
> > of US$5.5) as a package in order to attract more students to register
> > for the conference as well? (option 1)
> The problem with option 1 is about event dates. We cann't specify
> separate dates on registration page. I don't see anyway to have April 1
> - April 3 for student training + conference on same registration page
> which we are using for gnome.asia conference.

If we don't have other way, let's use separate registration then. thanks!

> > Or we prefer to allow students to register training separately?
> > (option 2)
> The benefit for option 2 is we can limit total number of students much
> less that what we have kept for conference registration. We should open
> training for maximum 100 students. It will be difficult to arrange
> training room for more than 100 students as we need computers for hands
> on training and student training can be set up separate as it's a free
> event.

We can provide the same training for 2 or 3 days, like this we can train 
max. 300 students with 3 days. What do you think?

> Regards,
> Akhil
>
> > I would suggest option 1, I think it can help us to get more
> > registration from students, what do others think?
> >
> > Pockey