Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Andreas, On 8 February 2014 08:14, Andreas Jung wrote: > At least the organization team has a financial plan and > a budget and it is _obvious_ to every child that can calculate that you > can not sell an undetermined number of tickets to a reduced price over > some fixed period if you don't w

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Achim Herwig
Hi Armin, Am Samstag, 8. Februar 2014, 09:49:37 schrieb Armin Rigo: > Andreas, this tone seems unsuitable to me. Are you calling the > organizers of all previous EuroPython conferences childs that can't > calculate? Are you calling childish all previous Pythoneers that > naively expect a similar

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Achim, On 8 February 2014 10:13, Achim Herwig wrote: > it seems to me that you did not follow this (admittedly very long) discussion. Previous conferences used to cope with the risk of suddenly selling all tickets at an early bird price. It tells us that (1) either they had a trick that you

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On 8 February 2014 08:14, Andreas Jung wrote: >> At least the organization team has a financial plan and a budget >> and it is _obvious_ to every child that can calculate that you can >> not sell an undetermined nu

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Alex Kavanagh
(long time lurker here ... ) If the early bird ticket sold out so quickly that usually means there is a large demand for people to go to the conference. If the conference is actually oversubscribed then there's not much point in having early bird tickets as you could just adjust the price of the

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread John Pinner
Hello, On 7 February 2014 21:28, Jacobo de Vera wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: > > I don't really understand the point in doing early bird tickets based > on a closed number of tickets. Because conference organisers have to work to a budget. Early Bird tickets ar

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Hynek Schlawack
Hi, >> At least the organization team has a financial plan and >> a budget and it is _obvious_ to every child that can calculate that you >> can not sell an undetermined number of tickets to a reduced price over >> some fixed period if you don't want to run over your budget. > Andreas, this tone s

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Dinu Gherman
Andreas Jung: > Please stop trolling and calling us unprofessional just because you > did not understand the concept of early. It has been clearly announced > that we would give out 300 tickets for reduced prices (which is almost > 1/3 or 1/4 of all tickets). Nobody did expect that the personal ti

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Jacob Hallén
lördagen den 8 februari 2014 12.32.41 skrev Hynek Schlawack: > > Let's all be nicer to each other, hm? We're on the same team. Hynek got it absolutely right. EuroPython is a community conference. It is run by volunteers for the community. When they make mistakes, we need to help them on the r

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Georg Brandl
Thank you! Georg Am 07.02.2014 14:49, schrieb Andreas Jung: > Please see > > http://blog.europython.eu/post/75895165264/early-bird-personal-tickets-sold-out-next-charge-on > > Regards > Andreas Jung > EuroPython 2014 Organization Team - Communications > > EuroPython 2014 - The European Python

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Jacob, On 8 February 2014 13:39, Jacob Hallén wrote: > When I ran the conference in Göteborg, we had fixed costs of about €1000. > EVerything else was per-attendee. We also knew that we would have plenty of > space to spare. This allowed us the luxury of having an open Early Bird > registratio

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Il giorno 08/feb/2014, alle ore 13:39, Jacob Hallén ha scritto: > lördagen den 8 februari 2014 12.32.41 skrev Hynek Schlawack: >> >> Let's all be nicer to each other, hm? We're on the same team. > > Hynek got it absolutely right. EuroPython is a community conference. It is > run > by volu

Re: [EuroPython] Extra "Personal" ticket charge to Early Bird conditions on Monday

2014-02-08 Thread Jacobo de Vera
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:20 PM, John Pinner wrote: > Hello, > > On 7 February 2014 21:28, Jacobo de Vera wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: > > >> >> I don't really understand the point in doing early bird tickets based >> on a closed number of tickets. > > Because c