Re: OKCon 2008

Saul Albert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:45:35PM -0800, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
>> inline below.
> 
> Hey, Jonathan - that's brilliant. Informative, attractive, concise. Well
> done!
> 
> I reckon that's ready to go.
> 
> Cheers, and thanks for all your work on this!

Ditto here. I've just got a couple of fixes. Rather than going on 
another comment + new version loop i've just made the changes direct and 
put the new version below. I hope this should be pretty much final.

I've also updated the wiki page substantially so its clear how people 
submit proposals and volunteer to help out.

That leaves one final question: how do we handle registrations? Last 
year we used our bespoke MoinMoin pluguin that just saved names + emails 
to a text file. While this works ok it does make it hard to manage stuff 
as you go along. Couple of possible options:

1. Use something like EventBrite (its free plus one can do charging 
through it -- though this isn't of much relevance we charge on the door)

2. Use mailman -- this might seem weird but basically signing up to a 
mailing list is pretty much the same as signing up to the event. Mailman 
has reasonable for facilities for subscribing and unsubscribing plus it