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

Am 07.02.2014 22:28, schrieb Jacobo de Vera:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Andreas Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please see
>
> http://blog.europython.eu/post/75895165264/early-bird-personal-tickets-sold-out-next-charge-on
>
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> Andreas Jung
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> I don't really understand the point in doing early bird tickets based
> on a closed number of tickets. How a bout a fixed date before which
> you can get the early bird tickets and after which you cannot?

Just one question about this.

How do you solve sold out by only having paid Early Bird tickets?

I am asking because we won't be able to pay our bills.

Reimar

We are
> the early birds, here, paying attention to this list and still getting
> frustrated because, judging by how fast the first batch was sold out,
> we are going to have to enter a strong competition of hitting F5
> faster than anyone so we can get the early bird ticket.
>
> This organisation method seems very unprofessional, and it seems to be
> based on figuring things out as we go along. Well, this is not the
> first year the conference is held, why not use the expertise from
> precious years? why this desire to do everything new and different? is
> it trying to prove a point?
>
> I signed up because I was in Pycon Ireland, thought it was great and
> wanted to scale up, and I was very excited until I started to read all
> about the organisation problems in this list. Now I'm not sure I want
> to go. I am always late for all conferences and for this one I
> thought, okay, I'm going to be on top of this one, so much that I will
> even get the early bird rate. Now turns out I have to have a virtual
> competition on a week day at noon! to get that. Nah.
>
> Please, get your act together, this is nonsense.
>
> Jacobo de Vera
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