Hey, On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 17:25 +0000, Sam Thursfield wrote:
I have some questions about how registration should work this year that I don't have a strong opinion on. * Do we want to do 'pay as you feel' for reg fees again?
I think that in Karlsruhe most people selected the suggested rates (i.e. averaging at just below 40€)
* Do the student (£15/€15), hobbyist (£40/€40) and professional (£150/€150) suggested rates make sense still?
Personally I think yes. It is not like the income (lets say ~6000€) actually covers much of the conference cost. So it is more about what people are willing to pay.
* Will we offer a free T-shirt for donations over £100/€100?
btw. we called it "fee" last year as we couldn't book it as a "donation" properly. Also if it was an actual donation, then any offer like a t-shirt is illegal. I like the idea of having a small bonus like a t-shirt. But effectively it just means that a company sending someone implicitly buys the t- shirt for their employee instead of them getting it themselves if they like.
* Will we give a 50% refund for cancellations on fees before a certain date, and what date?
We didn't have any cancellations and this specific regulation was chosen rather randomly to be honest. I think you should decide this based on what cancellation policy makes sense with regard to the accommodation booking.
I'm particularly interested in feedback from previous organisers on how these things worked in previous years.
Here you are :) There are some stats on: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/HowTo/EstimateAttendees
I do wonder if offering only a 50% registration fee refund on cancellation will encourage people to register late. It seems better to offer a 100%-minus-PayPal-fees refund unless there's some problem with that. We want people to register early so we can fill up the prebooked accommodation at the University quickly.
Yep, as said above, choose whatever makes sense with regard to accommodation. Though maybe another incentive like a 10% discount on the accommodation for "early bird" registrations could also work.
We plan to use the regcfp system again and I made some changes to that code so that we can do accommodation bookings for the rooms at the University along with registration. I set up a test instance of the new code here: https://test-guadec2017-regcfp.herokuapp.com/
Neat! I'll have a look. Benjamin
I would appreciate if folk could try and break this! You should be able log in to this regcfp instance using any random string of characters. The PayPal code is connected to a sandbox account, so you can make fake payments using the following credentials: email: test-buyer-2017 gnome org password: guadec2017 All feedback on the functionality is welcome. The style is just a placeholder at the moment. Thanks Sam _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
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