On 26 February 2015 at 04:00, martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the future, we could consider a "corporate registration package"
> that we could sell for an invoice, including services as e.g.
>
(Why is that not possible now?)
> - listing of names, affiliation and contact details in a booklet
> made available to all attendees;
>
It's 2015, if you're going to list them do it online not in a booklet.
Cheaper, easier, more accessible to attendees, and potentially available
permanently.
I'd say a list something like:
Professional Attendees
----------------------
Hewlett Packard
---------------
Bdale Garbee
Martin Michlmayr
Keith Packard
...
"HP is a global company that does blahblah. We're hiring! hp.com/jobs"
IBM
---
...
might have actual value in two respects: it lets companies recruit, and
lets companies demonstrate that they're a better employer than others
because they'll pay for their employees to go to cool conferences. (It
seems a bit like both a carrot and stick at once to me...)
I would expect that's sufficient "service" to justify invoicing, but I
don't know german tax law...
(Hmm, HP is not a sponsor yet? perhaps I should've used Google as my first
example)
(I'd list sponsoring organisations first, then order by number of
attendees, I guess)
- participation in a networking event;
>
Not convinced this is valuable per se... Recruiting events seem to be where
it's at, and having people who don't have someone to pay for them there is
more interesting.
- room category upgrades;
>
Seems like they could just book a room on their own if they can afford to
pay for things.
The other approach might be providing a nicer memento to "paying"
attendees. Perhaps everyone gets a debconf t-shirt with sponsors logos, but
professional attendees also get a nice collared shirt/blouse with some
subtle branding as well? Obviously the cost per shirt would want to be much
less than the professional rego fee...
Cheers,
aj
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Anthony Towns <[email protected]>
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