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

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Andreas Jung wrote:
> Reimar Bauer wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>> 
> 
> 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 tickets would sell that well (thank btw. to all the
> people that made an Early Bird purchase). 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. Adding 50 more tickets to the Early
> Bird sale  gives us possibly less financial flexibility with other
> things. So I once again reject your "very unprofessional" claim. Many
> people of the organization team have been Python, Zope and Plone
> conferences for the last ten years. Feel free to participate in the
> organization or please think about your allegations next time.
> 
> 
> 

Just a side note: also the US PyCon takes the same road with giving a
fixed number of 800 tickets to early bird conditions to the public
(with a expected number of 2000 atteendes).

https://us.pycon.org/2014/registration/

If your budget is fixed than it is obvious that a larger number
of reduced tickets have an impact on the prices of other ticket
categories.

Andreas
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