[TYPO3-t3dd] T3DD Sold out

[Frank Gerards]

Hi,

besides the size/scalability discussion, I would suggest to put out a theme-overview / session pool first before starting the ticket sale.
This is what I was used to at events in other business and community areas. 

As a team-lead, my point is that it is hard or impossible for me to argue to my boss to send 2-4 professional developers off for
3 days without even knowing any issues they can work on and paying tickets and stuff. 

I'm much aware of the "community spirit" of the TYPO3 events and I for myself am an enthusiast and dedicated to TYPO3 in all my CMS related projects,but besides enthusiasm ANY skilled, professional input (and ppl getting' good money for coding Ruby/PHP/Java tend to be skilled :) )
to this events will make TYPO3 grow as a professional enterprise CMS. 

So I agree with Steffen that the ticket sale process was imho little "strange" and not very transparent or what I experienced from other
events or congresses. It would be very nice to accept 50ppl from the waiting list, although even by now there isn't an official plan which workshops will take place.

Just my 2 cents,
Frank

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Von: t3dd-bounces at lists.typo3.org [mailto:t3dd-bounces at lists.typo3.org] Im Auftrag von Steffen Gebert
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. März 2012 14:23
An: t3dd at lists.typo3.org
Betreff: Re: [TYPO3-t3dd] T3DD Sold out

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Hi,

thanks a lot for your replies and coming back to the topic.

> you can also rise the fees like you suggested some time ago but like i 
> also said it is not the purpose of this event to earn money, it's 
> about the best way to boost development.
I really think the DevDays are already way to expensive, esp. for non-T3A members. By comparing it with most barcamps, the ROI is way bigger there.

> 80 was very personal and
> 215 tended to loose the personal touch. please do me a favor and do 
> not kill the personality of this event because it simply has to get 
> bigger -
But our community is growing steadily! (I hope) How should new people join such an official event, if it's already booked by the old geeks, who attend every year? Newbies don't book without a published schedule.

> but i'm sure this is not you intention. if we have the feeling to 
> loose the personal touch after a 250-people event (like we had with 
> 215 people and afair also the attendees told us via the survey) we 
> should scale down again next year.
I guess the 215 ppl. event was Sursee last year? I think it wasn't the amount of people, but the structure of Campus Sursee. Compared to Elsmhorn, where all people met in the central grass, there was no central place in Sursee. That's what made it a bit impersonal IMHO.


Kind regards
Steffen

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