Re: going live with the registration site

[Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl>]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:19:04PM +0200, William from Texas wrote:
> Question: Is this the correct site to become a GNOME member? ->
> http://www.gnome.org/friends/

Nope, it's http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/

> Question: Koen, how does it make you feel to finally open registration for
> the attendees? And, what would you like to say to the people who might want
> to attend? (I need a nice 'money quote' for the release..)

Opening registration is a big mile-stone for us. Monitoring the number
of registrants will help us plan the venue, catering and all those other
necessities that depend on the number of visitors. We hope many will choose
for one of the registration types that involve a financial transaction,
because the revenue will help us get more contributors to the conference who
would otherwise not make it for financial reasons.

Is that something you can use? In a bit of a release-rush so not a lot of
inspiration, quote-wise :(

gr,

Koen

> 
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl> wrote:
> 
> > Hi William,
> >
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:25:07AM +0200, William from Texas wrote:
> > > I can have a press release written up this afternoon. I don't know about
> > > length restrictions (ie, twitter), maybe I'll do a couple different
> > versions
> > > of the same thing. Who is registered on all the release sources??
> >
> > I think one announcement for the website, which gets pushed to
> > planet.gnome.org
> > automagically. We will also post that same piece to the announce mailing
> > list,
> > which doesn't require special privileges (you just send to
> > gnome-announce-list gnome org
> > and wait for the moderator to approve it). Also to guadec-list of course.
> >
> > On identi.ca/twitter, basically a short notice 'registration now open' and
> > then
> > a bit.ly url to the registration site and/or announcement...
> >
> > > To clarify: registration will be for those who want to attend GUADEC.
> > > Registration will be on 3 different levels. Slots are not limited, but
> > > registration closes on (date?).
> >
> > Actually, there will be four levels:
> >
> > EUR 0 - hobbyist/student
> > EUR 75 - foundation members, get a free shirt
> > EUR 100 - normal, get a free shirt
> > EUR 250 - professional, get a free shirt + access to professionals
> > reception
> >
> > People can also register for the pre-conference, which we should
> > mention.
> >
> > Registration closes july 5th, 23:59 CET.
> >
> > Have a look at https://register.guadec.org/bla.php, it's not finished i'm
> > dotting
> > the i's in the coming hours. The registration url will be
> > https://register.guadec.org/
> > when we're live.
> >
> > Any more questions, just mail/call/tweet/sms/fax !
> >
> > > ps - is this appropriate for the new 'guadec-web-list'?
> >
> > Yes, it would be i think..
> >
> > Gr,
> >
> > Koen
> >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Koen Martens <gmc sonologic nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi William,
> > > >
> > > > Today we will go live with the conference registration site. I don't
> > > > know how you are time-wise, but would be nice if we can get an
> > announcement
> > > > out about that fact, on the site (and thus planet), mailing lists, and
> > > > identi.ca/twitter..
> > > >
> > > > Gr,
> > > >
> > > > Koen
> > > >
> > > >
> >