also sprach Molly de Blanc <debl...@riseup.net> [2016-02-04 14:41 +1100]: > Is the goal here to have people actually pre-register or just to > get some numbers for planning purposes?
Hi Molly,
I am glad you asked this question. I am not sure whether we all have
a shared understanding of why we are wanting to do it this way.
Please allow me to offer how I recall things from all the
discussions. Please feel free anyone to correct or augment.
Previously, we've asked people to register and we've usually had
a 5–10% rate of people who registered but then never bothered to
update their records or show up.¹
This is why we introduced "reconfirmations", and recently some
people have called this approach "backwards".
The pre-reg step we're wanting to try should fulfill the following
purposes:
- create accounts so that events can be submitted and associated
with them;
- give a very rough idea of interest in the conference;
- identify those people in need of financial sponsorship because
we'll need to engage with them for individual data and possibly
specific arrangements;
- avoid giving people the impression that they registered, so as
to turn the whole thing around and rather than expecting people
to reconfirm, require them to register whan the time is right;
- get a way to reach out to all interested people to better target
information, such as a reminder to register.
¹) This might be related to registration being free, causing people
to register at no cost even if they didn't know yet whether they'd
go. An idea we were discussing a bit at DC15 and which I am just
sharing here FYI was to charge a certain amount for registration
(say $20), which can be refunded to the participant when they show
up.
> 4) I am traveling with family
We are investigating ways in which a family parent (or an HR person)
can easily manage multiple records. Presumably pre-reg only needs
a number though.
> It's probably safe to assume (for estimation purposes) that people
> who want sponsorship for debconf also want it for debcamp.
In case funds are limited, we've in the past limited sponsorship to
DebConf, expecting people to pay for DebCamp themselves. This won't
be an option for everyone, and so I guess when we reach out to
people in need of financial aid, we'll need to find out what effect
just-DebConf-but-not-DebCamp sponsorship decisions would have on
them.
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