[Lugcomms] LCA 2008, 2009 & 2010

[Peter Lieverdink]

----- Original Message -----
> lca-announce and the original conference websites answer quite a few
> of these:
> 
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010, GPCS - Grant Petch wrote:
> > 1) When initial registrations opened
> 
> Registrations for 2008 opened on 22nd October 2007:
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/lca-announce/2007-October/000086.html

Our registrations opened a week late. We were advised at the start of October that the payment gateway provider we wanted to use was about to go out of business, so we switched to a different one before opening registrations.

> Registrations for 2009 opened on 13th October 2008:
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/lca-announce/2008-October/000099.html
> 
> Registrations for 2010 opened on 10th October 2009:
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/lca-announce/2009-October/000129.html

Registrations for 2011 opened on 13th October 2010.

> > 2) When early bird registrations closed
> 
> Can't find all of these out, but:
> 
> For 2008, it was "first 30 days" (so presumably until 21st November
> 2007):
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/lca-announce/2007-October/000086.html
> I seem to recall they sold out early but there's no record of when.

2008 also had an "... or until sold out" policy.

We sold out of EB tickets a few days before we hit the 30 day limit. The amount of available EB tickets depends a bit on your total budget (giving a discount on a registrations means you have less cash on hand for doing stuff) but having ¼ to ⅓ of the total regos be early-bird is a reasonable assumption. So 150 - 200 or so EB on a conference with 600 paying attendees.

> For 2009, until November 10 2008 or until sold out:
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/lca-announce/2008-October/000101.html
> They announced the close on November 11, so it looks like they didn't
> sell out:
> http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2009/media/news/59.html
> 
> For 2010, they seem to have sold out on 5th November 2009, before an
> advertised close date of 13 November:
> http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/prices
> 
> > 3) When all registrations closed
> 
> Can't find out for 2008 from their website at
> http://linux.org.au/conf/2008/register.html

On-line registrations didn't really close until the day before the conference. Provided you keep an eye on the website and have the time and people-power to handle additional badges as required by late registrations, that's not much of an issue.

Note that full access tickets sold out just before x-mas. Our keynote venue was on the small side, so we sold discounted tickets with provisional access to keynote sessions after this date.

> It doesn't look like 2009 closed rego until the last possible second:
> http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2009/media/news/77.html
> 
> For 2010, on 24 December 2009:
> http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/prices

- P.