Thanks for posting this question and discussing it with us today: I hope this exchange between organizers will lead to best practices and ideas being more widely shared.
In addition, we have limited seats and we remind people in the last newsletter to cancel if they cannot show up because it occupies somebody else's seat.
2 days ago
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Roland
At BaselHack we have a no show rate of ±10%. It used to be much higher, until we introduced a 20CHF fee for joining that participants get back at the hackathon (participation is free).
2 days ago
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Roland
https://tube.switch.ch/channels/6ce2c324 Hackathons organized with BFH and Opendata.ch - Swiss chapter of Open Knowledge, in coordination with the Department of Social Work, BFH-TI, and other departments.
1 week ago
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Jörg Berkel
added some arguments and hypothesis to be discussed
1 month ago
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Roland
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