-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jung wrote: > Reimar Bauer wrote: > >> We are >>> the early birds, here, paying attention to this list and still >>> getting frustrated because, judging by how fast the first batch >>> was sold out, we are going to have to enter a strong competition >>> of hitting F5 faster than anyone so we can get the early bird >>> ticket. >>> >>> This organisation method seems very unprofessional, and it seems >>> to be based on figuring things out as we go along. Well, this is >>> not the first year the conference is held, why not use the >>> expertise from precious years? why this desire to do everything >>> new and different? is it trying to prove a point? >>> > > Please stop trolling and calling us unprofessional just because you > did not understand the concept of early. It has been clearly > announced that we would give out 300 tickets for reduced prices > (which is almost 1/3 or 1/4 of all tickets). Nobody did expect that > the personal tickets would sell that well (thank btw. to all the > people that made an Early Bird purchase). At least the organization > team has a financial plan and a budget and it is _obvious_ to every > child that can calculate that you can not sell an undetermined number > of tickets to a reduced price over some fixed period if you don't > want to run over your budget. Adding 50 more tickets to the Early > Bird sale gives us possibly less financial flexibility with other > things. So I once again reject your "very unprofessional" claim. Many > people of the organization team have been Python, Zope and Plone > conferences for the last ten years. Feel free to participate in the > organization or please think about your allegations next time. > > >
Just a side note: also the US PyCon takes the same road with giving a fixed number of 800 tickets to early bird conditions to the public (with a expected number of 2000 atteendes). https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/ If your budget is fixed than it is obvious that a larger number of reduced tickets have an impact on the prices of other ticket categories. Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQGUBAEBAgAGBQJS9d1DAAoJEADcfz7u4AZjNUMLwObleb52cxk0GLfvfSxGoHEw lYEh3PwpMUPe6vcWEc3elvoqi57Vq3gMb+3S12lM2bDusM7laC+Mvq0hVU/Qcvp+ Pfvwq/BvalUyqx8jHgivEPjwLX2yjxMG5f+AJogskFjwE0DdBlDnhqy7GIWDxtEr F/sG6DHDzjktTBSQGOmwDuCZ9Pn7xmUAqFbin3l39ymH2jP2izhdvV7So1i8LrGJ SVUVtd6ZgJqbs4Vr3K1ggkAp0TDm8PGO7oHBL/+DdEAXSfPtNBL1562/sCNvqcv/ kAXRAW3Bcv19iS6aJccaq/I12KlA4qZU5nNP1Eee3pzjM1Uq4mpgLfqmjsQ1kSjj UzRBI+iEmgVmXFV7VprS96YTMrDalobUgMdldD9jGvR+ESoEUe36Y2vb1uPhDtrv eRmsLBy5SSQD69eYf0C0KMwirqyDt1kGoAsv+rrfm8efWfIqHONxK5r85oUTgbni 2frLDBwwlFghQDkxd20tsLdHWBoR620= =OQT9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 Berlin, 21th27th July EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
