Re: Public registration promotion

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 03/08/2011 12:48 PM, Pockey Lam wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After discussion with Bharath and Fred. We come up with the following 
> ideas:
>
> We target 1000 participants, heavy promotion will be started middle of 
> this week until March 20, action by the local team.
>
> By March 20, if we don't have enough registration, the local team is 
> going to approach:
> local colleges, institutes and universities directly, there are around 
> 20 of them. They will ask their officials to select 30 - 50 
> outstanding students from their colleges each to join our conference.
>
> Besides, we can also consider to give a few free quota to different 
> FOSS communities to invite their core team to join us as well.
>
> Like this, we can definitely ensure the number of quality participants :)
Hi Bharath and Lakhil,

Here is a registration update from DoAttend, we have so far 37 
registered participants (excluded 23 speakers confirmed)
- 24 students
- 12 regular delegates

It's time to get ready for our plan B, please start to email volunteers 
to help in this large scale promotion of quota to outstanding students 
from 20 + colleges  and members from different FLOSS communities.

If we target a thousand participants, based on our experience, we can 
definitely allow at least 1300 to 1400 participants to register, please 
note and give away free tickets.

Let's also start to talk about how do we give them free tickets (with 
quota or not) from each organization (e.g. 30 to 50 tickets each or 
unlimited?), if we use DoAttend, is it feasible or easy to track? or 
should we consider Google Form or other FLOSS form tool?

- Pockey

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