[Scale-planning] Did you like having SCALE t-shirt pick up on the expo floor?

[Lan Dang]

Cool.  I've added t-shirt size to my volunteer signup form so I can pass
that info to you, too, for bulk registration.  It also makes life easier on
me when I have to figure out how many A/V t-shirts to order.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:

> We do collect t-shirt size data during registration, but only for
> attendees who register themselves. Many people are bulk registered.
> e.g. most SCALE staff and teachers bringing large groups of students.
>
> We only use the data to improve the shirt ordering process. At t-shirt
> pick up, we input the size actually requested into the scanner as
> another point of data collection. The two sizes can differ because
> shirts can run big/small, and attendees' physical stature can change
> too. Many people hold up the shirt they think they want and then
> change their minds. We don't want a badge card to lock them into a
> certain size, or make them run back to registration to fix their badge
> cards.
>
> The other reason we scan the badges is to check who has picked up a
> shirt already. Unlike space in a ballroom for a not-too-popular talk,
> shirts are a limited resource and we know they are popular. If we
> trade badge cards for shirts without scanning, we then have to worry
> about counterfeit cards. We don't worry about counterfeit badges when
> scanning because the barcodes can be verified.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Lan Dang <ldangmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you guys ask about t-shirt size as part of the registration process?
> If
> > you end up dedicating a badge card to advertise t-shirt pickup, you can
> > print out their size on the card and have them trade it for a t-shirt.
> Then
> > you don't have to do any scanning and there are less bottlenecks for
> t-shirt
> > distribution.
> >
> > Lan
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at socallinuxexpo.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We can try that out next year too. Maybe over time, as we do a better
> >> job of ordering the right number of shirts in the right sizes,
> >> attendees will figure out there is no scarcity of SCALE shirts.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> >> > Maybe the badges could have varying suggested pickup times...?
> >> >
> >> > When I went (after noon Friday or Saturday?), there was only one guy
> >> > ahead of me, and I had my shirt in 60 seconds.
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