[penguicon-general] Wrangling LUGs

[Charles Ulrich]

I've added you and SEMiSLUG to the list of LUGs on the wiki:

http://penguicon.org/wiki/LinuxUsersGroup

On 5/1/07, Mike Ward <unforgiven24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> At Wayne State University there's a LUG as well, which is relatively
> new (they were there before, it died, and we started a new one in it's
> place, essentially) but had four members at Penguicon 5, two of which
> were there for the duration.
>
> I know we're a pretty small group (maybe 5-15 people involved,
> probably around 7 "very active"), but if there's going to be
> interaction between area LUGs and Penguicon, don't forget us :)
>
> On 5/1/07, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 4:14 pm, Neal Probert wrote:
> > > If we want more LUG folks, I would suggest giving LUG members a
> > > discount.  Base that discount on the number of members from that LUG
> > > attending.  Perhaps a prize for the winning LUG with the most attending
> > > members, best party, longest distance traveled, coolest LUG table.  A
> > > lot of these guys are bringing in loads of their own gear, so they
> > > should also be rewarded/compensated likewise.
> >
> > Data point:
> >
> > For the first Linucon, I wrote an online registration system that
> > accepted "coupon codes" that changed the price of registration (either by a
> > delta or to an absolute value).  I then spread lots and lots of "$5 off
> > current registration price" coupons everywhere I could, and made them
> > different coupon codes so I could see who had found us through where.  I gave
> > a code to each of our Guests of Honor (giving them an excuse to tell their
> > fans about us _and_ give them a discount), I put them on flyers at the
> > University of Texas, I gave them to the local LUGs, I put them on flyers we
> > gave out at room parties, etc.  I also had some with an expiration date
> > (yeah, I know "act now supplies running out" is sales, and I don't do sales,
> > but I know the tricks) which I implemented by manually adding and removing
> > them from the cgi script with a text editor. :)
> >
> > A fringe benefit of this is I had various coupon codes that could comp badges
> > (I had one and each department head had one), so that whenever somebody
> > wanted to give out a free membership for some reason they could do so but it
> > was easy to track who had given out what.  Things like the panelist
> > registration rate was also a coupon code.  Everything could be done live
> > through the online registration system, and every attendee had a badge number
> > assigned (and displayed to them) at time of registration.  (I kept meaning to
> > write a page that could dump the current registration list, but to be honest
> > I just ssh'd into the server and did an ls -l in the directory.)
> >
> > Altogether it was only a couple hundred lines of code.
> >
> > Rob
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