Hi Fred,
I think it is a good strategy to raise prices but to still be open.
Unfortunately I can not participate in the event due to my limited
budget but I would prefer to have an open event.
I support Tim's view that it is neccessary to address also people
outside the core community.
But it mainly depends on your focus. What is your conference like? Is it
more on strengthening collaboration between different FLOSS-HC projects
and the community of developers in FLOSS-HC or do you also want to
attract potential users and new developers for FLOSS HC.
In the latter case try to be as open as possible.
From my experience of organizing the OSEHC workshop (follow-up webpage
under construction: http://wikicts.med.up.pt/index.php/OSEHC_Workshop)
http://wikicts.med.up.pt/index.php/OSEHC_Workshop
it is very fruitful to have people with different backgrounds with
different needs and perspectives.
Being open raises your chance to have new FOFs at the end of the day :-).
I'm currently organizing a FLOSS-HC workshop at Med-e-Tel in Luxemburg
together with Etienne Saliez
(http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_programpage=program
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_programpage=program)
(Sustainable collaborations in healthcare open source software
http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001gl3tGmS-gzS6wlDLAJiq_u6E9O7EWXTjhMPZx6jgiF9bOcS9_WG9qliaG4CpRjQPTre_ZzJFz8WRivPFNcu6YCiUcNFHj5VYpTeqZnj1zvnsNNq63F3NKg%3D%3D#LETTER.BLOCK16)
I whish you all the best for your conference and I hope we find a way of
exchanging experience and knowledge and may be a way of collaboration in
future events.
Best regards,
Thomas
fred trotter schrieb:
Hi,
So Early bird sales for the conference have gone really well. Much
better than I expected, and potentially problematically well. If DOHCS
attendance is any indicator, there will be a spike of late
registrations. I
may be running out of space, which is not a problem if I know months in
advance but is a problem if I know days or hours.
I have had several people email me saying I just missed early bird
registration, can I still get tickets at that price? The answer is
no, that
would not be fair to the people who have registered on time. However, in
sympathy to your pleas I have created a new almost early bird ticket
sale
that costs only a little more than early bird. You can purchase the
tickets
here:
http://fosshealth.eventbrite.com http://fosshealth.eventbrite.com
I am telling you know, if you want to go, or you think you might
want to go, buy your tickets now. Otherwise, you will forget and then you
will be emailing me asking for special treatment again. The people who
register earliest will get the best deal, I will only raise prices as the
deadline approaches.
Do not let this happen to you!!
Now for the main point of my message. Is it appropriate for me to
make this an invitation-only event, like FOO camp? I could call it Friends
of Fred or FOF (ok thats a terrible idea). The point is, it would help me
keep the conference size down and ensure that everyone there was really
important and/or doing really interesting work. Frankly I do not like the
idea, it feels bad to make anything FOSS closed like that, but otherwise,
conference planning might be impossible.
Let me know what you think!!
--
Fred Trotter
http://www.fredtrotter.com http://www.fredtrotter.com
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