[Inpycon] offline registrations

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Thursday, July 29, 2010 06:58:20 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Yes. Given the number of offline participants and the mails I'm getting
> regarding this, I'm inclined to agree with you.
> 
> We'll keep the facility of paying at the user group meetings for people
> who want to but we'll allow spot payments for people who have
> registered early at the early bird rates. Our criterion for deciding who
> is an early bird and who is not was based on "Date of payment" but we'll
> change it now to "date of registration". 
> 
> IS this fine? If so, 
>         - we'll amend the details on the ticket page, 
>         - send out an email to everyone registered offline
>         - Announce on the blog that you can pay on the spot as long as
>           you've already registered. 
> 
> Fine?

no - it defeats the very purpose of online registration - many people simply 
register and do not turn up. If they have to pay, it is more or less 
guarranteed that they turn up. The whole idea of online registration (and 
payment) is that we get some numbers.
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Regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Associate
NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC