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