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On Jan 3, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:08 PM, David Friggens <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Shifting times would be good. The registration opened at 5am here, >> though I probably would have gotten up for it had I known it was going >> to go so quickly. (Did you have to pay when you registered? If so, I >> don't think I could have convinced the holder of an institutional >> credit card to get up with me though.) >> >> I'll also +1 the suggestion for limiting attendees per organisation if >> the overall number is going to be kept small. > > I think the thing that would move these ideas along is for someone to > write the registration system that we're talking about (or find one > that does what we want that we could repurpose). In my humble > opinion, ideas that require more manual work on the part of the > host(s) are less likely to happen; but, if there was a system that > would do what we want (and handle the crush of registration), I think > the community would happily jump behind it -- registration has always > been an issue. > > So, that said, I'll take one step backword and let someone else step > forward (by standing still) to volunteer to write it... as they say, > "running code wins." For what its worth, a service like Eventbrite can do this for the host organization. See step 3 of http://www.eventbrite.com/t/how-to-create-ticket-types that talks about setting up start-sales and end-sales date/time arrangements for classes of tickets. One can even set up a wait list (http://www.eventbrite.com/t/how-to-set-up-a-waitlist). The fees (http://www.eventbrite.com/fees/) are somewhat high, but perhaps not too bad considering how much of the process they automate. Peter -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS [log in to unmask] +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.