[Foss4g2010] registration

[Paul Ramsey]

Nothing critical from me. Oh, except that presumably you're going to
open registration with an "extra early" rate, and that rate wasn't in
the budget. I put an imaginary number in the wiki, the real one would
be nice to see.

I think Jeff and I both opined that a steeper difference between early
and late rates would be "better". (If you're interested in lowering
prices, a higher late price implies the possibility of a lower early
price. It also rewards 'regulars' who tend to book early, at the
expense of 'tourists' who tend to book late.)

However, the numbers as they stand and the budget as presented has
nothing in it that raises any red flags w/ me.  Probably Arnulf should
wave some sort of official flag WRT how he's planning on handling
board approval of budget.

P

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com> wrote:
> thanks to you Paul
>
> is there any real impediment to open subscriptions yet?
>
> the sooner we open the better it is. We would like to give people the chance
> to apply at the "very early subscription" and the discount to sponsors.
>
> lorenzo
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I've updated the wiki to match the budget PDF.
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Subscriptions
>>
>> P
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>
>> wrote:
>> > budget
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Paul Ramsey
>> > <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> To re-state the question: are the final admission rates the ones in
>> >> the budget or the wiki? I assume the budget but as long as there's two
>> >> sources of info some confusion is inevitable.
>> >>
>> >> P
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Lorenzo Becchi
>> >> <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell at osgeo.org>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> If Lorenzo wants to get registration open sooner than later, and can
>> >> >> address the registration related questions Paul pointed out, then
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> board could do the full budget approval afterwards.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Approving the budget will not alter registration costs I assume, so
>> >> >> don't see any reason for holding up registrations while getting the
>> >> >> more detailed clarity on the budget.
>> >> >
>> >> > +1
>> >> >
>> >> > Lorenzo
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Just a thought,
>> >> >> Tyler
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 12/15/09, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>> >> >> > There are questions outstanding on the list, from me:
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > * Clarification on the proposed prices (ones in the wiki page? or
>> >> >> > the
>> >> >> > PDF budget?) would be good.
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > And from Tyler:
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > 1 - It took some digging to understand why the &quot;surplus per
>> >> >> > registrant&quot;
>> >> >> > changed, negatively, as the group grew larger.  Common sense would
>> >> >> > suggest a
>> >> >> > larger surplus as the group grows even if just slightly.  It seems
>> >> >> > to
>> >> >> > be
>> >> >> > under
>> >> >> > estimating a bit, which is fine for the end result but is
>> >> >> > deceiving
>> >> >> > on
>> >> >> > the
>> >> >> > surface.  For example, there are an increasing number of free pass
>> >> >> > &quot;guests&quot; in
>> >> >> > the equation - if they were shown in the registrations tables it
>> >> >> > would
>> >> >> > help
>> >> >> > make this obvious.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 2 - Also the calculated total registrants on page 4 is
>> >> >> > disproportionately
>> >> >> > lower for the 1000 delegate scenario than for the others.  I think
>> >> >> > it's
>> >> >> > supposed to be 950 instead of 836.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 3 - Do we really expect to have 50 &quot;guests&quot; out of 1000
>> >> >> > attendees?  I don't
>> >> >> > know the answer, but am curious on the thought there.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 4 - Typo on page 4 &quot;Full Registration before 15/06/2009&quot;
>> >> >> > -
>> >> >> > should be 2010
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 5 - Can we get this down into a single working budget document?
>> >> >> >  Or
>> >> >> > is
>> >> >> > that
>> >> >> > not important at this time?   Surely the working budget will not
>> >> >> > be
>> >> >> > maintained
>> >> >> > in 3 separate documents will it and that is what you're really
>> >> >> > looking
>> >> >> > for
>> >> >> > right?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Anything I'm mistaken about?  I hope I'm reading these right.
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > P.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Lorenzo Becchi
>> >> >> > <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >> thanks guys for the revision
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> @Jeff any news from the board?
>> >> >> >> can we open the doors?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jeff McKenna
>> >> >> >> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Thanks for catching that Volker.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> -jeff
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Volker Mische wrote:
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>> After a quick look at [1] I found:
>> >> >> >>>> "To register online for the FOSS4G 2009 Conference please click
>> >> >> >>>> here"
>> >> >> >>>> But it's "FOSS4G 2010" already  :)
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>> Cheers,
>> >> >> >>>>  Volker
>> >> >> >>>
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