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

[Molly Cheam]

I have no objection but I doubt if the students will be willing to pay
USD20.

regards,
Molly


On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:21 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> I'd be fine with that if the rest of the OC are.
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> Mark.
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> 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> <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
> *Date: *Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 11:00
> *To: *Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
> <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>, "safnog-oc at safnog.org" <safnog-oc at safnog.org>
> <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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