On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:35 AM, Sivasubramaniam Arunachalam < sivasubramania...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been associated with Bangpypers as a participant, speaker, > volunteer, and co-organizer for past few years(Just moved out of Bangalore > 2 weeks before). Here are my initial views on this topic. > > The primary(maybe the only?)objective of this group is to contribute/help > the Python community in Bangalore by organizing a monthly event. Our > objective is not to make the group members keep their promise or being > loyal/punctual to the organized event. > > We open the RSVP 7 days before the event. At the time of RSVP opening, the > theme of the event, venue(along with the available seating capacity) and > speaker line-ups are already decided/planned. So, no further planning is > done after opening the RSVP. > > At this moment, we are not restricting the RSVP based on the actual seating > capacity of the venue. We choose the RSVP limit which is higher than > seating capacity(as of now ~2x) based on the attendance from the past. > > We are trying to be fair to the participants based on who RSVPed first and > it is broken(always in the free community-based events). Instead, allow > unlimited RSVPs and restrict the people based on FCFS on the event day. > Communicate the same in the event description and logistics email 1-2 > before the event. > > IMHO, being fair to the participants by asking money(to prove their > seriousness in participation) doesn't look good for a 12 years old, matured > and self-sustained community like Bangpyers. It is simply an > additional headache to the event organizers. > > +1 We show put efforts to educate people more. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
