Jacob Hallen wrote: > As an early-bird registrant, you get a discount because you are > taking a slightly bigger risk, since you don't know what the final > schedule will be. A list of registered talks will be posted a couple > of days before 15 May, but making a well working schedule takes a lot > of time and work, which is why it won't be available until early June.
Just as an indication how things look like from a potential attendee's perspective: 1. For all people who do not get the fee (+ travel expense etc.) paid pay their employer: - "early bird" registration fee is already quite a bit of money, non-early-bird is unjustifiable, period. - registering and paying accomodation "blindly" for the whole week (including having to take vacation for all that time!) without knowing at all what will be the content of the conference is unjustifiable as well. By consequence, with your organisation, you've automatically totally ruled out participation for these people. 2. For the people who get participation paid by their employer: - they need to apply for allowance to attend the conference in the scope of their work usually quite some time in advance - their bosses will obviously want to know when the subjects which are supposed to actually concern the employee in question will be treated. Employee-days cost money, you know. In addition to the travel expense and registration fee itself. I wonder who you expect to attend the conference then? BTW: I regularly attend quite a few conferences every year concerning all kinds of subjects for my job, and I've never encountered the case that at least a detailed list of talks/subjects was NOT sent out together with the invitation AT LEAST three months in advance. BTW2: I know you're doing the organisation work as volunteers in your spare time, but then I would consider it just the more important to plan the organisation of the whole event in a way that allows a maximum of participants... As a stop-gap measure, I think it would be extremely important to publish every available bit of information about the content of the conference really urgently NOW, otherwise I'm pretty sure you WILL be frustrated about participation numbers. Best regards Wolfgang Keller _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
