Re: Public registration promotion

[Bharath Acharya <abharath gnome org>]

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 16:45 +0800, Emily Chen wrote:
> For those 37 people, we can give them packages (include T-shirts,
> bags, Pins, materials, invite them to special sessions like business
> sessions. ), must has more content than other free registration.

True. Else paid registrants would feel bad. So we suggested we give them
some T-shirts/bags, but Fred felt it might hurt our sales of "Support
GNOME Foundation" T-shirts.

But we need to give the paid registrants some good goodies to carry back
home. Suggestions anyone? T-shirts are the easiest option for us, and
within budget. Other things we need to get the invoice.

Regards,
Bharath

> 
> 
> At the same time, we should promote this conference in university, now
> students can join as free. But free ticket include less than people
> who paid. 
> 
> -Emily 
> 2011/3/19 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 :)
>