We do plan to have tickets available at the door unless the event is sold out.
Pre-registration, however, is strongly encouraged. It helps us with event planning and helps us to make the event attractive to vendors and sponsors.
Pricing is subject to change up to and including the days of the event. We aren't planning to change the pricing, but if we discover at some point that our financial models are out of step with reality, we'll need to do what we can to realign them. Pricing adjustments won't affect people who have already registered.
We don't have a plan to offer single-day pricing. Philosophically there's the idea that the Meet is designed as a single two-day whole rather than a set of separable parts (though of course we know some people won't attend all of it); and there's the practical issue of what a day-pass actually means in an environment where, traditionally, quite a lot of activity continues well past midnight and a non-negligible subset are still Head-Fi'ing past dawn.
...and quite honestly, we're also trying to keep it simple from an organizational point of view. A single type of admission at two possible prices is something I think we can deal with, but beyond that it starts getting hard to administer properly and police consistently and fairly, especially when we're operating with an all-volunteer staff. This may seem like a small point now, but on the days of the event we expect things to be pretty crazy.
*n_maher, I know this doesn't mean you. I'm expounding generically.
Pre-registration, however, is strongly encouraged. It helps us with event planning and helps us to make the event attractive to vendors and sponsors.
Pricing is subject to change up to and including the days of the event. We aren't planning to change the pricing, but if we discover at some point that our financial models are out of step with reality, we'll need to do what we can to realign them. Pricing adjustments won't affect people who have already registered.
We don't have a plan to offer single-day pricing. Philosophically there's the idea that the Meet is designed as a single two-day whole rather than a set of separable parts (though of course we know some people won't attend all of it); and there's the practical issue of what a day-pass actually means in an environment where, traditionally, quite a lot of activity continues well past midnight and a non-negligible subset are still Head-Fi'ing past dawn.
...and quite honestly, we're also trying to keep it simple from an organizational point of view. A single type of admission at two possible prices is something I think we can deal with, but beyond that it starts getting hard to administer properly and police consistently and fairly, especially when we're operating with an all-volunteer staff. This may seem like a small point now, but on the days of the event we expect things to be pretty crazy.
*n_maher, I know this doesn't mean you. I'm expounding generically.
