On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 12:53 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote: > 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? Sorry but i won't be able to give training for 2-3 days even though it's for 2-3 hrs per day. If you can find other people who are ready for training, we can go ahead with more than one day. and some where i feel we are taking too many items in our bucket during this year conference. :-) > > > Regards, > > Akhil > > > >> I would suggest option 1, I think it can help us to get more > >> registration from students, what do others think? > >> > >> Pockey >
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