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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/Aug/18 23:00, Nishal Goburdhan
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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.<br>
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More than likely, it will be local folk, as anyone spending money to
fly into DAR can afford US$50.<br>
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i think worthy questions are:
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# 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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