Re: Formal Member Registration

[Syed Khader Vali <sidgeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Mon, 29 May 2000 01:57:04 +0530 (IST), Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

    Atul> Khader: it would have helped had you attended the last meet
    Atul> - a lot more things would have become clearer. Your fear of
    Atul> "formality" is pretty ridiculous.

Well, Maybe I was wrong, depends on what we might be talking. I
seriously should have been there. I guess this was the first ILUG
meet which I missed in the past one year. :-( ( Kya kare once in a
while I have to meet my friends also :-) the whole intention is to
keep it informal and make it look formal. Is that possible ? I dunno.

    Atul> Such huge numbers bring along their own problems - caterers
    Atul> need to be told numbers *before* the event, sponsors would
    Atul> like to have an idea of what they are dealing with and we
    Atul> (the coordinators of the LUG) need to gauge the profile of
    Atul> the members and what would interest them at meets.

But my only question here is what in case we have relatively more
number of walk-ins than members ? Then what do we tell the caterers or
whoever ?

    Atul> At Bang!inux, we had no way of telling the organisers who
    Atul> our members were and how they could be identified -
    Atul> resulting in us not being able to arrange for LUG members to
    Atul> attend some of the sessions.

Was there a chance like that ? Then I guess I will the first to
register :-)

    Atul> Last year, at IT.COM, we also had no formal way of
    Atul> identifying members, resulting in cheapskates trying to pass
    Atul> themselves off as Linux India members in order to bypass the
    Atul> gate-fee for the exhibition.

And one who were really volunteering had to wait for hours together
outside because there was no way of identification that they were
from the LUG ( which included me :-( So I guess again I will be first
for the membership in that case :-)

    Atul> These are all logistical issues, and for those of you
    Atul> merrily waving your little red flags - big numbers bring big
    Atul> logistical problems, especially for organisers,
    Atul> coordinators, etc.

I guess I will not talk much now as I am getting the answers :-)

    Atul> For those of you who did not attend the meet - I proposed a
    Atul> "membership fee" (actually just a payment for covering the
    Atul> cost of printing membership cards) of Rs.10. Yes - that is
    Atul> TEN Rupees, or about $0.25. One time.  Period. Any "student"

Well, I guess then ravi can spend it "better " on ... now :-)
Thanks
Regards
        - Khader
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