Thought for the following form for delegate registration. Feedback welcome. Excuse the formatting here.
Delegate Registration
Please enter your profile details here. Details in this profile are used to match you with the other delegates, so please enter complete details.
Account Information
- Name: __________________
- Email: __________________
- Password: ____________
- Birthdate: Date: ______ Month: ______Year: ______
- Gender: Male / Female / Don't want to disclose
- Photo: (upload)
Contact Information
- Phone: ____________ (ideally your mobile number or a number reachable during the conference)
- City: Drop down (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta, Other) If Other, specify: ____________
- Country: Drop down (India, USA, Germany, Australia, England, Other) If Other, specify: ____________
Occupation & Associations
- Occupation: (drop down)
Computer related (Developer/Software) Student Computer related (Sysadmin/Networks/Hardware) Engineering Research and development Education/training Executive/senior management Consulting Computer related (Internet) Unemployed/Between Jobs Self-employed/owner Other Government/Military Customer service/support Computer related (Sales) Sales/marketing/advertising Professional (medical, legal, etc.) Accounting/Finance Manufacturing/production/operations General administrative/supervisory Retired
- Current Organization: ________________
- Last Organization: ________________
- Latest School/University: ________________
- If you are involved with any FOSS project or LUG, mention it here: ___________
- Involved in Foss.In as: Drop down (Delegate, Speaker, Volunteer, Organizer, Sponsor, Other)
Topic Interest Areas
- Topics of interest: (select as many as you like)
Wireless Networking
Storage & Archiving
High Performance Computing
Non-stop Computing/fault tolerant computing
ISP Services
Embedded Systems
Platform Migration
Telecom
Localisation and Indic Computing
Desktop Computing
Gaming and entertainment
Performance Tuning
Security
Cross platform applications
Education
Government
Open Standards
Encouraging Indian contributors
Legal issues
Women In FOSS
The FOSS CommunitySoftware Development
Operating Systems
FOSS Deployment Case Studies
FOSS Advocacy
Web Services
FOSS Enterprise Solutions
FOSS in Business
Technologies / Tools used
- Technologies / Tools you use: (select as many as you use)
RedHat / Fedora
Debian
Ubuntu
SuSE
C/C++
Java
PHP
Python
Perl
Ruby
MySQL
Oracle
PostgreSQL
GTK
QT
Mono
.Net
dotGNU
Mobile (Symbian/J2ME etc)
RIA/AJAX
Squid
Firewalls
Email Systems
LDAP/Radius
OpenOffice
Localization
Embedded
Graphics
Multimedia
Eclipse
Ant
Geronimo
Other
None (I am involved in other operations)
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Tejas Dinkar
Hi Nirav, i saw this on planet.foss.in, and I just wanted to mention a few things I thought were wrong:
1) part about don't want to disclose gender seems like a joke. Plus it will screw up stats of how many men/women attended.
2) If you are in say 'Chennai', then your country obv cannot be Australia
3) Country itself seems to imply that we are expecting delagates only from 5 countries
4) Why are Last organisation and last school / university really important? Current organisation/university seems to be sufficient IMO
Nirav
Hi Tejas,
Good points!
1. Ok, so let's take the joke out! :)
2. The options are not ordered. I think we can solve this by preselecting India as the country, and allowing to change that later. I don't think we will really be adding too much of restriction on selecting a country here. Since Australia can also have a city named Chennai! They have a place called Bombay that I remember...
3. Not really! The reason to give a shorter drop down in the country is to make it fast to locate the most probably places. We don't want users scrolling through a list of 250 countries. They can always enter it if they don't find their country in the list. This same reasoning is used for the city drop down too.
4. Would you not like to meet people from your last organization at the conference? How exciting would it be to find a school / college friend at the event? These fields simply allow us to establish more linkages between two delegates.
:Nirav
Devdas
There is no place named Bombay in India.
Browser dropdowns have this feature where you can enter the first letter and it will jump to an entry beginning with that letter.
Some people would rather not disclose organisational affiliations.
Gender would matter for gender specific T shirts/etc, but otherwise we don't care.
Nirav
1. I was referring to Bombay city in countries other than India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_%28disambiguation%29
2. Ours is not exactly going to be a browser drop down. If you have some stats on the countries people come from, then we can include those countries in the list. Otherwise I don't see a point of showing the list of all countries for this app.
3. Good point. We can make it optional.
4. Yes.