Important Feedback for Nest 2022

Are the 2020/21 tickets being rolled over to 2022? If so won't this mean that there won't be many tickets for anyone else to go if we stay at 500. Would be nice I think to make it a bit bigger if possible.

I think perhaps post covid it might be something to consider, but 2022 we are still v much in the world of risk mitigation.

I'm on the fence, but agree with others who said that COVID would suggest caution this year.

We're always going to want to go > 500 ultimately, right? Because otherwise it will not be very inclusive. If we are confident of selling over 500 tickets and enough to make the additional costs worthwhile, I say go for it. And you don't have to decide on this now, right? Try and sell 500 but be ready to sell more. If you easily hit 500 and effectively have a waiting list (for people to register they want to buy but didn't get one) then open up the next couple of hundred. What's the alternative? That we wait for demand to WAY outstrip supply, have lots of frustrated people who've been before and then next year increase sales?

Jeff's point of 2 x 500 events back to back has long been equivalent-suggested for Burning Man and has a whole host of reasons to not do that which should be documented. Just trying to clear the site of people at end of first event is practically impossible. Trying to strike a whole load of stuff and set up new stuff at same time on same spaces is practically impossible. It sounds great but there are a lot of impracticalities to this.

Yes in principle - it's currently difficult to radically include the 501st person who wants to go. In practice, this might not be the year to do it.

There will be a bigger demand for tickets this year

As it has to be a big jump it is maybe risking more of a culture shift/loss to do it on a year when there's been two years off.

I feel adding a few hundred more participants would change what I think of as a familial feel of the event

500 memberships usually sell quickly to regulars and their friends, excluding slower-to-purchase 1st timers, creating the potential for a cliquey event.

Could 200 additional memberships be offered to a wait list and released as soon as sufficient are sold to meet the additional licencing cost ?

I think expanding membership off the back of a global pandemic is a really bad idea. Let us settle back into the event before we make any major changes or make things more difficult for ourselves.