[Inpycon] Opening registrations

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Thursday 01 July 2010 21:02:12 steve wrote:
> On 06/30/2010 11:12 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Anand Chitipothu<anandology at gmail.com> 
> > wrote: [..]
> >
> >>  I don't think early-bird registration is going to cutdown the queue.
> >>  People anyway have to collect the conference kit and swag. With
> >>  early-bird registration we will have a better estimate of number of
> >>  people expected.
> >
> > I think it will help.
> > Picking up swag bags and giving it to people is not *that* time
> > consuming.
> >
> > It's when people give us money and we have to hunt for change and put
> > their names down etc. that it becomes tedious and time consuming.
> 
> Just a thought, since the event is in September and online registrations
>  will be (/are ??) open, why can't in-person registrations also
>  simultaneously occur at the python user group meets ?
> 
> Unless i am mistaken the bangpypers meet every month and so to the Mumpy
>  guys. In person registrations at these meets might be convenient for those
>  who have already made up their mind to attend but cannot make online
>  payment while also easing away at least some of the load off from the
>  on-the-spot registrations.
> 
> So, someone from these cities can volunteer to collect registrations. We
>  can have a cut-off date after which the volunteers in each city handling
>  these registrations stop accepting any more and transfer the names and
>  registration money to someone in Bangalore (I am assuming that the ability
>  to do this transfer through online means would be a pre-requisite to
>  volunteer to collect registrations).
> 
> I can volunteer to handle registrations in Pune (although we don't have
>  regular meetings, i can always meetup with some of the members).

ideas out of the box are very good. We can collect from chennaipy members

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Regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Associate
NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC