Re: Public registration promotion

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

> > 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?
> We shouldn't have free registration on doattend. People who are paying
> for registration, will feel cheated. If you know any FLOSS form tool, we
> can use it. Other wise when we will go to meet college Principal / HOD,
> we can invite 30-50 students and lectures and we can have printed forms
> on registration desk at venue which should be filled by free
> participants. After filling the form, we will give them badge. This will
> be done to have information available to send survey as Pockey mentioned
> earlier.

Let's not use doattend in this case, I am okay with either sending them 
invitations by using Google Form or similar tool,
or giving them free badges on the spots. Please select one that bring 
you more convenience.

Thanks,
Pockey
> Other ideas are most welcome.
>
> - Akhil
>
> > > 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