I would vote for paying 100rs and let that be used for snacks and goodies for the speaker.
Nitin Kr On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:32 PM, kracekumar ramaraju < > kracethekingma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Having a small barrier of entry is good to eliminate noise. To make things > easy to manage, you can probably take help of PSSI in managing payments. > Also using bank account of one of the organizers may create accounting/tax > issues for him. > > Good to see 75 people attending the meetup and waiting list. Good work, > organizers! > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
