Re: Disabling all the paid registrations and creating new free registration options

[Bharath Acharya <abharath gnome org>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 23:39 +0800, Pockey Lam wrote:
> Hi Bharath,
> 
> I think Emily and Allan maybe available for a second day if the second 
> day is not on 28th (since EMily will arrive on 28 night).
> 
> But as far as I know Lakhil said he is busy and cannot host any second day.

Hi Pockey,

Lakhil requested to cancel his talk because he might have to be involved
in another day of training :) So if more students get involved with
training, that would add more value to the event, but permitted we do
not burn out ourselves.

> 
> That's the schedule of our existing trainers.  How about you? Do u still 
> think we can host a second day in this last minute? If you can find 
> trainers locally, I think it;s great to host a second day as well :)

One of srag, Punit or Vibha can cover the slots. I'll check with them
tomorrow and get back on the slots.

The only motive to host another training session, is to get more
students involved and building a local GNOME community. But as you
mentioned we would have to be sure we do not burn out our trainers. I'll
check with the local trainers (srag, Punit and Vibha) and get back on
this thread.

Cheers,
Bharath

> 
> Pockey
> 
> On 03/24/2011 05:19 PM, Bharath Acharya wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am sure most of you are busy with packing your bags and getting ready
> > for flights. The volunteer teams are on their task to fetch us more free
> > registrations. The first set of training tickets would be over soon. So
> > if we plan to open a new session, let us know.
> >
> > We have consent from all trainers to be ok with the second day of
> > training. So if we can continue with the plan that'd be great.
> >
> > Let us know if we should go ahead with the second training day, because
> > that seems to be the big hit :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bharath
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:30 +0530, Bharath Acharya wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> We are disabling all paid registrations and creating new free
> >> registration options as per the suggestion by Doattend to do it
> >> immediately.
> >>
> >> The volunteers are going to project it as a free event for students. So
> >> we'll need the official announcement soon.
> >>
> >> I am sure Fred would cover everything in the announcement on why it was
> >> made free but a few good points to highlight,
> >> * To make it free to encourage more students to attend (since some
> >> pointed that money was an issue)
> >> * To make it fair to delegates because we have enough sponsors who can
> >> cover the event for us.
> >>
> >> We will start informing everyone for faster registrations, so please get
> >> the official announcement out soon, to be fair on all registered
> >> participants.
> >>
> >> Also I saw Pockey reply that we'll go with only one session of training
> >> (100 students) If yes, then let us have it mentioned that its a first
> >> come first serve basis for only 100 students. Problem is if we make this
> >> option all 100 seats would be taken by Dayananda Sagar students only. I
> >> would still like to have a second session since the trainers were ok
> >> with having one on Mar 30 or Mar 31. The more students we get, the
> >> better right?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Bharath
> >>
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