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

[Miss Portia]

Hello All,

I’m for the free promo codes for students with valid student cards/
confirmation of enrollment at a registered institution.

Regards,
Portia

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 11:25, Molly Cheam <molly at apricot.net> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> On 30/Aug/18 11:11, Jessica Magagane (jmagagan) wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it possible to have a $20.00 rate for students, if they can produce a
>> student card & confirmation that they are current students)?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jessica.
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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