[Marketing] QtCS registration (was RE: Can perhaps help a bit to prepare QtCS 2012)

[Quim Gil]

On 03/08/2012 04:00 AM, ext Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:56 PM,<quim.gil at nokia.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Sivan,
>>
>>> I imagine I'd need to get in touch
>>> with focal points of the respective sub projects in the community so
>>> we make sure slots are granted with people who'll push Qt forward - is
>>> that what you had in mind in the allocation process?
>>
>> What we have so far is
>> http://wiki.qt-project.org/Events/Qt_Contributors_Summit#Participation_criteria
>>
> Right, Quim could you please clarify what you meant with : "You took a
> sponsorship package including event invitations (((to be defined)))."

Yes, the idea id to open the door to this possibility:

1. A big Qt user investing in Qt and perhaps considering becoming a 
contributor sponsors Qt CS.

2. One of the incentives in the sponsorship was 1-2 invitations to 
attend Qt CS, have a chance to meet the project contributors and have a 
first hand experience.

Defining the sponsorship offers is in my ToDo list...


> Re: "You are invited by a maintainer or the organization team and we
> still have seats left." Personally interesting thing for me would be
> to encourage more new comers to the project. I wonder if we could ask
> maintainers and reviewers about recently joined contributors who
> shined. In recognizing  their good and persistence work in the same
> time meeting face to face to collaborate, we should try to invite
> them.  It could create a nice buzz for curious people to wet their
> feet in the future.

Agree.

In other words, let's put the stress inviting non-Nokia + 
"no-former-trolls" developers. Canonical, RIM and many 
http://qt.nokia.com/partners/ . A big chunk of the (short term) future 
approvers should come from this front, critical for the sustainability 
and health of the Qt Project.


> I'm happy to start going through the list and send manual invitations,
> but I'd love to have the mechanized system first such that I will be
> able to put emails in with people names so invitations will be sent
> and registration will be made through the same web app system. I think
> I can dig the invitation email that I got last year from my mail
> records, just re-use this and change dates and venue etc?

Share the draft before, please. Ok, Alex is away these days. Anybody 
else knowing how registration was handled last year?

--
Quim