[Inpycon] Registrations open

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/7/7 स्वक्ष <vid at svaksha.com>:
> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:42, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The registrations for the conference are offically open as per what we
> >> discussed on email. The link to the blog post with the details is here
> >> http://in.pycon.org/2010/blog/6-Registrations-are-open!
> >>
> >
> > http://pyconindia2010.doattend.com/orders/embed_register, has
> > mandatory fields marked with an asterisk. Is there a compulsive reason
> > for doattend to know the following: Gender*,  Organization*, Job
> > Title*, City* ? For the last 3 fields you can fill anything if you
> > dont wish to give details but not so for the gender field --The
> > T-Shirt Size does not have a listing for Womens-tees so why insist on
> > the knowing the "Gender" of a registrant? As long as the email id is
> > valid and the payment goes through, personal details are totally
> > irrelevant for doattend, imho.
>


 It is not used for T sizes, just for statistics.

 I dont know why this is a problem. I think most of us belong
 to one or the other, so it should be an easy option to fill.

 If we want to be very politically correct, provide a  "None of these"
 option also, but hey there are other important things to worry
 about...




>
> I added that thinking that knowing number of male and female
> participant will be useful. I'm not sure if we are going to print
> women-tees.
>
> Do you have any objections?
>
> Anand
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