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

[Mark Tinka]

I'd be fine with that if the rest of the OC are.

Mark.

On 30/Aug/18 11:11, Jessica Magagane (jmagagan) wrote:
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> Hi Mark,
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> Is it possible to have a $20.00 rate for students, if they can produce
> a student card & confirmation that they are current students)?
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> Jessica.
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> *From: *Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
> *Date: *Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 11:00
> *To: *Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>,
> "safnog-oc at safnog.org" <safnog-oc at safnog.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [safnog-oc] SAFNOG 4 / EANOG | Rego Status | Urgent
> attention required
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> More than likely, it will be local folk, as anyone spending money to
> fly into DAR can afford US$50.
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>     i think worthy questions are:
>     # is $50 too high for the local (non-student) attendees?  noah, or
>     someone else from the area?
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> Valid question. If we feel it's too high, I'm certain we can consider
> lowering it, or having a lower fee for students.
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>     # are we reaching out to local industry sufficiently, to help with
>     registrants?
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> I think we need to do more of this. By my count, I expect the majority
> of participants will come from Tanzania.
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> Mark.
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