Re: [guadec-list] Registration for GUADEC 2017: request for opinions & testing

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinazik gmail com>]

Hi,

Could you include a question about gender with a blank text entry
(with sample text "e.g. man, woman, genderqueer person" and a note
that the data will be used for aggregate statistical purposes only to
help us track the gender diversity of GUADEC attendees). We've been
tracking this data over the years.

Thanks,
Marina

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We are getting closer to properly announcing GUADEC 2017 and opening up
> registration.
>
> 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?
>
>   * Do the student (£15/€15), hobbyist (£40/€40) and professional
>     (£150/€150) suggested rates make sense still?
>
>   * Will we offer a free T-shirt for donations over £100/€100?
>
>   * Will we give a 50% refund for cancellations on fees before a
>     certain date, and what date?
>
> I'm particularly interested in feedback from previous organisers on how these
> things worked in previous years.
>
> 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.
>
> 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/
>
> 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
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