[OSGeo-Conf] Invitation to hear your wisdom about FOSS4G 2015

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Gert-Jan,

yes, I like the idea with the workshop-extra as well. We'll have to 
check with monetary discounts, because as Steven stated, this causes 
other problems.

I think the basecamp will be full as there will be a pre-conference 
code sprint with several projects from saturday till tuesday 
(20.-23.8.2016). We might ensure that people can only book that 
accommodation,
if they have registered to the conference first.

So far, Till



Am 2015-09-22 16:03, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden:
> Same goes for the BaseCamp hostel: a lot of peeple seem very
> enthousiast about this wonderful place to stay, and the number of
> places (120) here is limited as well
> (although I realize it's a bit complicated to make a package deal of
> the FOSS4G registration and the BaseCamp registration)
>
>
> I also like Steven's suggestion to do a "buy 2, get 1 extra for half
> price" discount (or similar "enterprise-discounts").
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Gert-Jan
>
>
> Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> schreef:
>
>> Good idea
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>> On 22 Sep 2015, at 12:58, b.j.kobben at utwente.nl wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Seeing that workshops are usually popular, and place is actually 
>>> limited,
>>> this seems to me an obvious candidate for getting people in early.
>>> Something like "discounted workshops if booking before date x", or
>>> "popular workshop y only available for early bookers"...
>>>
>>> Barend
>>>
>>> --
>>> Barend Köbben
>>> Senior Lecturer ­ ITC-University of Twente
>>> PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
>>> @barendkobben
>>> http://www.itc.nl/geoinformatics
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22-09-15 13:33, "till.adams at fossgis.de" <till.adams at fossgis.de> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Steven,
>>>>
>>>> your thoughts were exact ours ;-)
>>>>
>>>> The idea with the special benefit is the one that also came to my 
>>>> mind.
>>>> We'll think about that - I think we are planning lots of
>>>> side-activities, so thism ight be a suitable way.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Till
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 2015-09-22 13:10, schrieb Steven Feldman:
>>>>> The challenge is to provide some real incentives for early
>>>>> registration - price seems the obvious one but it creates 2 
>>>>> problems
>>>>> either you discount price levels to such a low level that you 
>>>>> might
>>>>> lose money on early bird delegates or you artificially increase 
>>>>> the
>>>>> price of non early birds to create the differential and 
>>>>> discourage
>>>>> late bookers. Neither is ideal.
>>>>>
>>>>> One lesson from both past FOSS4Gs and other events is not to 
>>>>> extend
>>>>> the early bird deadline, this results in a loss of confidence in 
>>>>> any
>>>>> limited offers and encourages the expectation that there will be
>>>>> further extensions so there is no need to book early. If an event
>>>>> needs to offer an incentive after the early bird has expired 
>>>>> there
>>>>> are
>>>>> several other ways to offer a similar (but slightly smaller 
>>>>> discount)
>>>>> e.g. book for 2 or more delegates and get x% discount off second
>>>>> delegate
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe a better option is to offer some other benefits to early 
>>>>> birds?
>>>>> Limited t-shirt? A free day of workshops? Privileged access to
>>>>> something?
>>>>>
>>>>> ______
>>>>> Steven
>>>>>
>
>
> Gert-Jan van der Weijden
> Voorzitter Stichting OSGeo.nl
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