On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@redhat.com> wrote:

Miscommunication situation to avoid with speakers:

"I was a bit relaxed after that and didn’t worry much when there was no
further contact by FLOCK organizers for hotel and travel bookings. But
by early July, I was panicking a lot ! Turns out, I had registered for
FLOCK using a different email id (non f.p.o one) and submitted the talk
using my f.p.o email id and hence was dropped from the list of sponsored
attendees. Anyway, thanks to FLOCK organizers and especially, Joe
Brockmier it all worked out in the end since I was already in Berlin for
my research work and didn’t need a new visa ! So come August 2, I was
all set and ready to fly to FLOCK.."

Flock 1, we didn't ask for email address if you didn't list your FAS id, and that was a mistake. We had piles of people we couldn't contact. So IIRC, the form got edited to require FAS id, but the result is that as much as 25-30% of the emails in FAS bounce, at least based on the number of failures I received. So that doesn't quite work either.

(FWIW, we had something similar happen to a speaker in RH Summit this year, so Flock isn't alone in people registering and submitting with different email addresses.)