Is your state letting the team down?
Having looked at Franks blog about attendance at TechED I wondered about how else I could look at that data.
So here is the challenge you have 11 Months to get your state to perform as well as the ACT, 6 times the population.
Not possible you say, well best you start recruiting people to come along to save your embarrasment.
| State | % of TechED Attendees | % Australian Population |
| NT | 0.43% | 1.00 |
| ACT | 12.11% | 1.99 |
| TAS | 1.20% | 2.49 |
| SA | 6.27% | 7.96 |
| WA | 5.17% | 9.95 |
| QLD | 15.13% | 18.91 |
| VIC | 16.56% | 24.38 |
| NSW | 41.55% | 33.33 |
So what are your targets for next year...
| State | % Target | Attendee Target |
| NT | 6 | 151 |
| ACT | 12 | 302 |
| TAS | 15 | 378 |
| SA | 48 | 1210 |
| WA | 60 | 1512 |
| QLD | 113 | 2848 |
| VIC | 146 | 3679 |
| NSW | 199.8 | 5035 |
Now that is only if ACT numbers don't go up, let me tell you it is freezzzzzing in Canberra in the beginning of August and TechED 2007 is on the Gold Coast again. Frank can we get that many folk in the hall? OOOOPs thats 2500 more than Boston had
OK too ambitious how about .....
| State | State Reps this year | Attendee Target next year |
| NT | 11 | 12 |
| ACT | 305 | 330 |
| TAS | 30 | 33 |
| SA | 158 | 171 |
| WA | 130 | 141 |
| QLD | 381 | 413 |
| VIC | 417 | 452 |
| NSW | 1047 | 1133 |
By the way a Full priced ticket works out to be about $6 a day between now and then, cheaper with an early bird, even cheaper again if you buy together so user group leads lets try to facilitate this early. If we put in a single order can we get the group pricing guys? Per Sate? Community Wide? That would make it worth being a user group member, in anyones language.
2 Buckets of Coffee nothing really, full price.
well lets just say almost all my ACS Practising Computer Professional (PCP) Points in one week too way cool.