Re: Public registration promotion

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 03/21/2011 05:44 PM, Bharath Acharya wrote:
> 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.

We talked about it, paid participants will get lunch coupon but the 
non-paid ones won't :)
So there is already a differentiation, let's stick with our plan,
and please arrange volunteers to approach 20+ schools plus all local 
communities to give them 30 to 50 free tickets

Pockey


> 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.

We also talked about it in last irc meeting, we suggested Pins (button 
badges)
Tshirts are rather expensive, we would rather keep some budget for next 
year.
Let's give away pins :)

Pockey

> 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 :)