[Linux-aus] Linux.conf.au attendance numbers

[Luke John]

Cheers for the numbers everyone, much appreciated.

And yes it's for the Perth Convention Bureau as part of our Perth #lca2014 bid.

Kind Regards
Luke John

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Peter Lieverdink <peter at cc.com.au> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 25/01/12 12:41, Luke John wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have been unsuccessfully trying to find attendance levels for past
>> > conferences.
>> >
>> > Is someone please able to advise where these numbers may be
>> > available?
>>
>> Luke -- I assume this is as part of a LCA bid? The LA council should
>> have those numbers stashed somewhere I would think.
>
> There aren't any "official" ones that I'm aware of... not in the wiki and not anywhere else. I've been maintaining a spreadsheet since 2008 that contains a guesstimate of attendee numbers based on successful payments via the gateway. If council members prior to 2009 have stored attendance data for LCAs prior to 2007, please let me know.
>
> The numbers in that don't appear to be particularly far off the actual estimated number of attendees, based on data from zookeepr when that was available. The gateway has remained the same since 2007, though 2010 used a different one, so I don't have 2010 data of the same metric.
>
> Susanne and Andrew Ruthven also put together a spreadheet with information for LCA2010 and I've populated that for other years based on information I've been able to find.. so we have reliable numbers for LCA2008, LCA2009 and LCA2010.
>
> We can and should probably go back and pull actual registration data from the various zookeepr instances, once the new LA servers are up and we have somewhere to actually *run* these instances. I don't know if the 2007 zookeepr vm survives; one of the spreadsheets mentions the 2007 data is corrupt and only contains the wild guess of 800 for the number of delegates that year. I think the 2011 zookeepr vm is not in fact hosted on LA infrastructure. (Ping me or the admin team if you have access to it!)
>
> With all those provisos, here are numbers:
>
> 2006: 423
> 2007: 599*
> 2008: 631
> 2009: 528
> 2010: 606
> 2011: 484*
> 2012: 481*
>
> *Number is amount of payments via gateway, actual attendee number will be higher due to non-gateway payments.
>
> Cheers,
> - Peter.