[FOSS4G-Oceania] limited single-day registration?

[Edoardo Neerhut]

I rather treat this as a one off case keep the conference registration as
it is now. I think adding the option adds too much complexity.
Agree it makes sense to be flexible with her though.

If there are a deluge of request, then maybe it warrants further
consideration.


On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 14:29, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have a speaker who is unable to attend part of the conference because
> she is attending the R unconference <http://ozunconf18.ropensci.org/> on
> 22-23 November, which conflicts with ours. She is speaking on Wed 21st, and
> is able to give her presentation.
>
> She would like to attend on the day she's speaking, and has asked if there
> is a 1 day rego option. You'll recall this has come up in conversation
> several times, but we haven't made any moves on this... probably because if
> we opened that up, it would add some administrative burden, which we're
> carefully balancing with our ability to manage.
>
> But I wonder if there would be any appetite here to open up a limited
> 1-day rego option, for speakers only, which would allow us to make an
> exception in this case. There are very few speakers left who haven't
> registered, so this would be a very rare exception, quite likely the only
> one.
>
> Personally, given that she is interested in attending but has a genuine
> conflict, and is a presenter, I think it would be nice to find a way to
> welcome her to the conference (without insisting that she pay full
> registration when she can only attend half of the event). But there may be
> other views here.
>
> What do you think?
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