This is really good news.
One of the things that perhaps will help is starting organizing a bit
earlier. I think not longer then one month after this years so we still
have freshly in our memory what worked and what not. This also gives us
the opportunity to spam a lot sooner but still stay relative.
I think we can conclude that the extra early bird works very well, what
we could consider is starting it earlier, but stopping it earlier too.
With the lessons learned till now and what comes in the future it might
be handy to create a sort of procedure handbook. I am more then happy to
make a first draft.
For me I already got some things I want to do for next years EP:
- Subscribing to all python mailing list that are (vaguely) related to
the EU with the publicity@ account.
- Reviewing the publicity mail templates and make them a bit more future
proof.
Mailing lists are only getting to a small percentage of python users who
may be interested to come.
But they are convenient and cheap! I think that any other ways of
getting more 'forced' publicity (that is forced we need to do initiate
it) will be costing a significant amount of money with probably limited
effect.
However once we have a good turn up we might think about 'loyalty'
bonuses, like a voucher that will get them rebate for their next EP
conference. Also 'recruiting' local publicity managers at the conference
might be a good idea (I volunteer) since till now we have only a limited
number of people handling publicity. Key people would be the ones that
work at a large python shop, universities and write articles for
relevant magazines, but at this stage I have to say anybody will do :-)
I am afraid that any other method of getting more publicity will cost
money and I am not sure that when there is any money left we should
spend it on publicity. I would rather see that we get 'high profile'
python developers to a talk, perhaps by luring them with paid expenses
and a reasonable fee.
I think that the main problem is that we are not reaching the beginning
python developer or the ones that are just interested in python like
programming, my water say that this could be a potential huge audience.
This is a sort of chicken-egg problem, we can't reach them because they
don't know much about Python and the reason they don't know much about
Python because they are not going to conferences where it is mentioned
:-) So in short we need to get more Eurpeans into Python and make them
look at resources where we can contact them (newsgroups), this will
automatically result in more public showing up at these kind of conferences.
I hope that other people have better ideas then me, otherwise we are
doomed ;-)
Martin
John Pinner wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I closed Extra Early Bird this morning, at this point we had 142
delegates registered.
Since then we have had one more registration, at the 'standard' early bird rate.
Which makes a total of 143 delegates registered, over three months out
from the conference, so we are guaranteed a good attendance which
should help getting sponsorship. Well done everybody!
Self-proclaimed delegate experience is:
Novice : 10 ( 6.99%)
Basic : 26 (18.18%)
Experienced : 95 (66.43%)
Guru : 12 ( 8.39%)
Registrations by country are:
Austria : 1
Belgium : 2
Finland : 2
France : 2
Germany : 20
Hungary : 1
Italy : 1
Lithuania : 3
Netherlands : 6
Norway : 5
Poland : 3
Romania : 1
Spain : 2
Sweden : 5
Ukraine : 2
United Kingdom : 85
United States : 2
I think that we can conclude that our publicity is pretty good (thanks
to Martin Hellwig!) but we need to improve it in Europe. Suggestions
please.
Thanks,
John
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