Re: EuroPython 2015: Early-Bird tickets sold out!

On 12.03.2015 13:03, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Marc-André,
> 
> On 12 March 2015 at 12:33, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> However, please note that we will fully refund tickets until June 20th
>> (modulo the admin costs), so it's possible to buy a ticket now
>> and then get a refund if the talk is not selected.
> 
> What occurs if someone doesn't buy his ticket, is selected, and then
> cannot buy a ticket any more?  From my point of view, you might either
> officially support this case (by reserving a few extra tickets for
> these speakers), or explicitly ask on the talk submission page that
> all potential speakers *must* have a ticket already (which they could
> get refund on later).  The problem with the second option is that all
> tickets may be gone before the submission deadline.

I doubt that we'll sell out that fast, but I'll bring this up
in with the finance WG to see whether it's better to ask speakers
to by a ticket before submitting a talk.

Reserving a few extra tickets is probably the better option,
since refunds cause a lot of extra work.

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
EuroPython Society
http://www.europython-society.org/