YAPC::NA 2013 (Austin, TX June 3-5) Update
- We have 156 registered for the conference so far. To see who is planning to go, use the Search YAPC::NA 2013 Users link.
- We've switched on ticket purchasing. Conference tickets are $100, or $80 for early birds (purchase by May 1st).
- Please submit talks by March 15th. For more info see our recent blog post about submitting talks.
- We've received payment from seven sponsors so far and have begun thanking them on the website and elsewhere. cPanel, based in Houston, Texas, have donated $10k in cash and lots more in ongoing support across the board. Thank you cPanel! (Their job site.)
- The top 6 ideas at our 2013 Ideas Collector (please, only vote if you are going) are:
- Moderated panel on perl's future
- Stand Up Dinner
- Continuous Development Workflow
- REST server on Dancer
- BOF: Perl Wrappers For Web Services
- Git Training by Schwern (post conference)
Just 3 folk so far think we should Provide YAPC T Shirts in kid sizes. And talking of tees:
- Please help us fill out our important historical record of YAPC::NA tee shirts. See Got Conference Shirts? for how to win bonus points.
If you want to be part of what will probably be a pivotal conference shaping the future of Perl, go register now. If you can't make it, please spread the word instead. Thanks. :)
Later,
YAPC::NA 2013 Team
I blog about Perl.
I hate to be a downer, but you really have about 35 users so far. This is one the things I really hate about ACT. People can "register" without actually register.
When you create an act account, there's a separate step to "join" the conference by clicking on a button. This is totally separate from actually *paying* for the conference, but it's a necessary first step.
So when you look at the attendee stats it shows two numbers. The larger number is the number of people who've "joined" the conference (your 156). The smaller number is the number of people who have committed to coming. You can commit either by paying or by having a confirmed talk.
When I used ACT for my animal advocacy group's conference I edited these templates to only show the committed number, since that's the only one that catually has any meaning.
I highly recommend you email everyone who's joined but not committed and remind them to pay. This might be something you do two or three times before the registration deadline.
Thanks autarch, that's excellent feedback.
Additionally we've had registration enabled for about a month, but purchasing for only a few days, exacerbating that problem.
I've added three tasks to our planning system to send reminder emails 2/28, 3/31, and 4/23.
I've added a task to prod us to review how we present the numbers mid March, a couple weeks after the first email reminder.
The planning group discussed this with organizers of previous yapcnas. The conclusion is that we'll watch the numbers and may send reminders nearer to the conference date.