On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:14 PM, David Morris wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Aug 19, 2009, at 1:36 PM, J.D. Falk wrote:
David Morris wrote:
Great idea ... except from my memory, registration might close
before
the agenda is firm enough to pick a particular day to attend.
Picking
the day
needs to be really close to the meeting week for this to be an
effective
option.
Just my opinion, but I think we need to allow for unrestricted
changes of the date
of the daily pass, up until the date it is actually used. Any
advanced selection of
a day should be for planning purposes only (such as catering). If
you pick up a pass for
Tuesday on Sunday, even as late as Tuesday AM you should be able to
change it to Wednesday if you need to.
Likewise, if you picked Monday and you don't show up until Friday,
your pass should still be
good.
I see no reason not to do this, and I suspect many newcomers (who I
expect to make up a good proportion of the
daily pass users) will be confused by the process and may not
figure out where they need to go until the
last minute. We should be friendly towards them and not try and
make them feel ill-used.
Along those lines, I strongly think that any day pass payments
should be fully applicable to a
full registration, if people decide they want to stay for the whole
meeting. We want to encourage that.
I fully agree with your expansion on my comment ... but I think that
local
interested participants are at least as important a consideration as
newcomers. For one meeting in the heat of the original HTTP work, I
made two one day trips from SFBay to LA rather than spending the
week in LA.
For the recent SF meeting, I was unemployed and couldn't justify the
full meeting fee for 1 meeting day and didn't attend. YMMV.
I certainly wasn't trying to imply that we can or should be unpleasant
to regular attendees ! And, certainly, local
attendees are also important. For all of these cohorts, I think we
should be as flexible as
reasonably possible.
Regards
Marshall
+1
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J.D. Falk
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