While this is really great news, it raises some new issues. Traditionally, about one third of the attendees have registered in the Early Bird, with the cutoff being about 6 weeks before the conference. If we extrapolate, we may be looking at 400-700 people wanting to attend. The uncertainty comes out of not having had an Extra Early Bird registration before. There is no way we can accomodate 700 people in the booked facilities.
- How many people can we have before we run into the limits of the facilities? - What is the capacity of each room, and how do we ensure that everyone who wants to attend a talk gets to do so? - What is the limiting factor? Is it the size of the smallest room for talks, or is it the size of the common area (for lunches and exhibitors), or some other factor? - How do we handle hundreds of people wanting to recharge theor laptops? - What are our reserve alternatives? I guess that people can flow into the outdoors for breaks, since the conference is held in July, but do we have any other reserves? I think we need to set a limit on how many people we can accomodate. I think we may have to ask the delegates what talks they would like to attend, in order to schedule the right talks for the right rooms. söndagen den 15 mars 2009 skrev John Pinner: > 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 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Europython-improve mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
