[safnog-oc] SAFNOG 4 / EANOG | Rego Status | Urgent attention required

[Mark Tinka]

On 29/Aug/18 23:00, Nishal Goburdhan wrote:

 
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> one of my ex-students (who is a student) reached out to me about this
> and asked if i could help her with this.  $50 is more than she could
> afford.  i told her to register and that i’d pay for her “at the
> door”.  so, i think that the money payment is definitely keeping folks
> away, but, i’d really prefer not to remove that, since it does help
> keep our numbers manageable  (this from a “free” afpif last week,
> where we had 700 registrants *confirm* attendance, and then 413 arrive)

We have always had room for free participants. In the past, the delivery
mode was OC members got 10 complimentary codes and would issue those to
their network to rego for free. Do we feel this is something that would
help? If so, we can get those codes quickly issued and we can all
distribute them to those we feel should come but can't afford to.

More than likely, it will be local folk, as anyone spending money to fly
into DAR can afford US$50.


>
> i think worthy questions are:
> # is $50 too high for the local (non-student) attendees?  noah, or
> someone else from the area?

Valid question. If we feel it's too high, I'm certain we can consider
lowering it, or having a lower fee for students.


> # are we reaching out to local industry sufficiently, to help with
> registrants?

I think we need to do more of this. By my count, I expect the majority
of participants will come from Tanzania.

Mark.
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