April 16th-19th 2009, at Haraldvangen, Norway
Newsletter from February 19, 2009
Good news everyone! I'm sending you all on a highly controversial mission! (Hubert J. Farnsworth, Futurama)
The KP preparations are progressing nicely. Work is being done in all areas, Programme, Book, AWIN, Finances and, obviously, Info. We appreciate all feedback and interest, and we strive to answer all of your requests and inquiries within a reasonable time frame.
This newsletter contains the following information:
1. Participant statistics
2. Coming updates to the web service
All the best!
Love from the KP09 committee
****
1. *Participant statistics*
The statistics presented underneath may contain errors, such as double registrations, etc.
- Web forms -
We have as of February 18th received 116 submitted web forms from interested people. More than half of these were submitted less than 24 hours after the registration went public.
- Registered participants -
As of February 17th we have registered 58 confirmed participants, that is: participants who have both registered and payed.
- Nations -
Of the 116 web forms this is the national distribution:
* Brazil: 1
* Bulgaria: 2
* Czech Republic: 7
* Denmark: 26
* Finland: 17
* Germany: 11
* Ireland: 1
* Israel: 5
* Latvia: 2
* Norway: 18
* Slovakia: 2
* Sweden: 19
* Switzerland: 1
* UK: 1
* USA: 3
- Web site profiles -
A total of 141 profiles is now registered on the web site
http://www.larpconference.org/
All users are able to create blogs and write comments on the site, some have already begun.
- A Week In Norway -
There are 70 people who have registered for AWIN, though only 39 has confirmed their participation by paying. AWIN has only room for 70, so the limit is fast approaching.
- Newsletter -
This newsletter reaches 161 e-mail addresses.
2. *Coming updates to the web service*
- Participant list -
We plan to publish a list of confirmed participants on the web page. The list will concist of the first name, the first letter of the surname and the nationality.
- Articles in the Knutebook -
We want to publish the articles in the coming Knutebook on the web site before Knutepunkt, to give everyone an opportunity to read them in advance of the event itself. This way we hope to create even more enthusiasm and inspiration up front.
pr
I think rather the problem is getting some adverticement out.
Telling people about it. I just happoned upon it by share coincidence trough a forum and people talking about it in my larp group.
The main reason why so few people from arround here is attending is due to the fact that there is verry little information on what+s going to happen at thhis years knutepunkt. Wed like to know more, please.
Daniel Borgersen, Keeper of the holy remote.
So, the number of
So, the number of participants from norway is extremly low! Is interest fading for the conference?
Not unusual
Experience tells us that the contingent of locals, especially from Norway, are late in signing up. Reasons might be that they do not have to book flights early, etc, and so have less to hurry about. We are not worried about the number of Norwegian participants, also because most of the staff will be Norwegians and so add to the flock. We haven't yet noticed a fading interest. We have noticed a fresh bulk of interest from people not previously engaged in KP.
We do, however, notice the request for more info from Daniel. Most of our promotion directed towards Norwegians have been distributed through channels like laivforum.net/other web forums and Facebook. Are there any other channels that you are missing?
All the best
Kristian