Hi As of today, there are 5394 members in BangPypers meetup [0]. For last meetup (IoT Workshop), 267 participants showed interest. We allowed 134 RSVPs and waitlisted 133 attendees. As Nitin mentioned in previous thread, he couldn't attend the meetup since he was in waitlist. 75 people participated in the event. Turnout ratio was 56%. Our expectation was only 40% people would attend. That's the rationale behind 134 RSVP limit.
This kind of scenario happens at least once or twice in a year. To solve the RSVP problem, few meetups charge a monetary fee of 100Rs [1] and return the amount when participant shows up on the event day(after deducting gateway costs). Some meetup [2] donates the collected fee to organizations like EFF, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy and other non-profit organization. Some meetup uses the amount to distribute goodies to the speaker, and spend on snacks and food. The meetup tried charging a small amount and now reverted [3]. The collecting money has administrative work - Use one of the organizer bank accounts, record attended participants, return payment (not sure payment gateways will be happy returning money for the majority of transactions). Will you be interested in paying for the meetup with a refund? I'd like to hear input from others regarding in this matter from all front. [0]: https://www.meetup.com/BangPypers [1]: https://www.instamojo.com/cloudyuga/microservices-and-serverless-event-docker-me/ [2]: https://www.meetup.com/hack-and-tell/events/229586790/ [3]: https://www.meetup.com/hack-and-tell/events/237149625/ -- *Thanks & Regardskracekumar"Talk is cheap, show me the code" -- Linus Torvaldshttp://kracekumar.com <http://kracekumar.com>* _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
