1*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith(meetings-developer)= 2*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 3*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith# Meeting organization practices 4*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 5*5f0c5ebcSBarry SmithThis highlights some of the organizational practices of previous PETSc meetings. 6*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 7*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith- Collecting registration fees. 8*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith - In 2023 we used EventBright, Barry set it up and had the money go straight to his bank account. For nontrivial amounts of 9*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith money this can produce tax issues since EventBright sends the information to the IRS. 10*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith - In 2025 NumFocus set up a Tito account to receive the registration fees. However since they don't know about PETSc meetings 11*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith Barry had to spend as much time as he did with EventBright organizing the webpages. 12*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 13*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith- Collecting abstracts for presentations/posters 14*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith - In 2023 and 2025 Junchao Zhang set up a Google form to receive abstracts since neither EventBright or Tito support users 15*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith uploading materials. It is annoying to have two registration processes, one for money and one for abstracts. It would be 16*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith best if this could be simplified. 17*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 18*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith- Remember to **take a group photograph** during the meeting. 19*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 20*5f0c5ebcSBarry Smith 21