Many speakers (~20) did not register for Flock when submitting their proposals. They didn't want to register because they weren't going to come unless their proposal was accepted.
Problem is, we then don't have their funding request info. If decisions about who is going to be funded are made regardless of whether or not they proposed a talk or not - if someone is essential, we should consider their funding, but if they dont register we dont know how much funding they are asking for.
We should probably separate registration ("Yes, I'm coming") from funding request ("I'd like to come, can you help fund me?")
Another issue is that there were folks that didn't want to register until they knew they were accepted because they didn't want to lose the registration fee. Even though I think we explain we'd refund it. Maybe we should have some mechanism where you're only asked to pay it once your funding request is accepted.
~m