The next EMF ticket sale will be this Sunday (March 22nd) at 15:00 UK time:
https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets
Due to higher than expected uptake on volunteer vouchers, we unfortunately don't have a huge number of tickets remaining for the last two public sales, but we will be offering refunds and reselling tickets in the next few months.
@emf with the immersive demand for tickets, would it be fairer to do a lottery in future years?
I’m trying to buy a ticket this year (I’ve never been before) but when it sells out in the single second it takes to add the ticket to my basket, it makes me wonder what’s the point.
I don’t want buying a ticket to feel like a video game where my hand-eye coordination has to be perfect.
(And thinking about it, it probably disadvantages people who need accessibility aids to use their computers.)
@richardloxley unfortunately, running a lottery would involve somehow verifying the identity of people applying, if we didn't want it to be trivial to game. That's something we're not willing to consider.
There are no good solutions here - we've spent a lot of time thinking about it!
@emf good point, I see the ID requirement makes that unworkable.
Alternatively I could imagine some kind of queuing system on initially accessing the website would avoid the “fastest finger first” problem when navigating the website, but I presume greater minds than I have considered that and found exploitable weaknesses!
@emf just a thought, since you want to improve diverse participants: it'd be good to prevent bots/automated buying because this puts some of us disabled people at a higher disadvantage to buying a ticket.
Anyway, I'll still wait for CFP as I'm excited to submit a talk idea and a workshop idea. Thanks @emf
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