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

[Mark Tinka]

Thanks, Noah.

Portia, on the rego web site, can you please ask Paul to highlight the
"on-site rego" option as the 1st option? Thanks.

Mark.

On 30/Aug/18 13:01, Noah Maina wrote:
>
> Hi Team
>
>
> We are working as local organizing committee to push for more
> registration and we will be meeting next week Tuesday to iron most of
> the urgent issues at hand.
>
>
> In terms of registration in general like i indicated earlier, paying
> using VISA/Mastercard is not common in Tanzania as Mobile Money option
> is widely used hence the importance of emphasizing onsite registration.
>
>
> PS: At the bottom of the eventbrite page for registration, this option
> of onsite registration is not that visible and its easier for someone
> not to figure it our as the font is to tiny.
>
>
> Meanwhile, we will get back to the OC on the issue of tzNOG students
> participation who we believe should be given either free pass or find
> a way to fund their participation.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> *Noah Maina*
> AS37100 Peering Team
> http://as37100.net/?peering
>
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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> *From:* Miss Portia <portia.rabonda at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 30, 2018 1:09 PM
> *To:* Molly Cheam
> *Cc:* safnog-oc at safnog.org
> *Subject:* Re: [safnog-oc] SAFNOG 4 / EANOG | Rego Status | Urgent
> attention required
>  
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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>
>>         <mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
>>         *Date: *Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 11:00
>>         *To: *Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
>>         <mailto:nishal at controlfreak.co.za>, "safnog-oc at safnog.org"
>>         <mailto:safnog-oc at safnog.org> <safnog-oc at safnog.org>
>>         <mailto: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:
>>
>>          
>>
>>
>>
>>             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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