People problems when organizing an event

[Martin Owens]

Hey Le Kien Truc,

I think you should offer the opportunity to come only if they can do
some work before hand, like publish the even on social networking sites
or get 10 people using Ubuntu from their community. :-)

Mostly I reserve the free tickets to events for the people who will be
manning the booth and people who want to come are roped into helping. No
one is ever just an observer. At Anime Boston I co-opted 3 legitimate
attendees to help with the booth, I'm a cheeky git like that.

But the only reason I'd have given out a free pass to someone not
manning the booth would be if they had proven a long standing commitment
to volunteering in the community.

Martin,

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 10:59 +0700, Le Kien Truc wrote:
> We have a plan to introduce FLOSS at University of Pedagogy at Vung
> Tau province in Viet Nam. But most of us are in Ho Chi Minh City
> (130km far away from where the event is held). The transportation cost
> is sponsored by a foundation. The problem is there are 10 volunteers
> registered to join this event but some them want to be observer .
> Until now we just have 4 lectures about FOSS, one Ubuntu course and
> provide free Ubuntu CD. Do you think people who isn't assigned any
> works is ok to came with us? It could cause bad impression because
> they just come and look around. They are very enthusiastic in the
> commnunity and ask them to directly contribute is impolite. Is there
> any activities that all people could work together in this event
> without preparation? 
> 
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