<div dir="ltr">I’m a touch conflicted - yes, the website has been very transparent - so really no excuse for missing an early bird unless one has to wait and see if a talk is accepted.<div><br></div><div>As long as we have a mechanism for speaker discounts (since a bunch of people won’t know they can come until a talk is accepted), which IIRC we do, happy to close early bird.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 12:46, Edoardo Neerhut <<a href="mailto:ed@mapillary.com">ed@mapillary.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Agree with Daniel. Early bird is for early birds...<div><br></div><div>It gives the seller the peace of mind of selling tickets early, at a hit to revenue. Now that they're sold out, I think we should focus on selling the rest at regular price. As Daniel says, no guarantee we'll get to 150.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2018 at 12:09, Martin Tomko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomkom@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">tomkom@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They sell fast, so that is what it is… Unless we are confident we get more than 150 ppl. Maybe we could have a bulk purchase option – get 5, get an extra early bird
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">FOSS4G-Oceania <<a href="mailto:foss4g-oceania-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">foss4g-oceania-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Daniel Silk <<a href="mailto:dwsilk@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwsilk@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 16 July 2018 at 11:30 am<br>
<b>To: </b>Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">foss4g-oceania@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Early Bird Ticket Allocation Increase<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 1:14 PM Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My gut feel is no - we've been very transparent (the registration page is literally counting down the remaining tickets at all times) and $400 still represents extremely good value.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We can add more tickets to the overall allocation which may help cover more early birds, but we won't know for sure whether we sell them until it's too late.<u></u><u></u></p>
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