[Scale-planning] Expo Pass (Other Issues and Suggestions)

[Sean McCabe]

Ilan,

What you said was kind of sobering, this couldn't of been said any better,
thank you. If people want to get expo passes and see the con because they
can't afford a full pass. *We are about education, not profit. This *is why
we all do what we do every year.

I feel like this thread keeps trying to reinvent the wheel, which will cost
the team more time and money to prevent what? If leave things the way they
are, its not like people who are "stealing" are really hurting the con for
anyone else. Are they?

Do we really want impose changes to the rest of the 3000+ attendees because
a hand full of people want to cause trouble?

To top it off, the talks are free online after.

Sean

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Hriday Balachandran <bala at socallinuxexpo.org
> wrote:

> Ok, lots of things here. Here's our guiding principle. Attendees
> (mostly anyway) are not at SCALE to hang out at the reg desk. So, we
> want them to spend as little time there as possible. To that end, we
> try to come up with solutions that streamline all the user experience
> into one solution.
>
> Multiple printers serving up different kinds of badges, separate
> queues, specialized badge stations etc will all work, but violate the
> guiding principle. Incidentally, that's also the reason that we have
> only one badge per sheet when we can have 6 in theory. We tried that
> once, and um, no, not fun.
>
> We can solve this problem if we introduce expensive badge solutions
> with RFID etc, but that will increase the cost of the conference, and
> we are loathe to doing that.
>
> Bala.
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Ken <scalezz at kemasa.com> wrote:
> > It might not be worth the cost, but if you used a color duplex printer,
> you
> > could print the badge on both sides, as well you would not have to have
> the
> > badge paper printed up (same with just a color printer). This would
> reduce
> > the waste of paper ,or having badges from Scale 12x hanging around (yes,
> I
> > saw that stack).
> >
> > It would also give an option to print special, noticable badges for any
> > purpose, such as tech, a/v, volunteer, speaker, expo, etc.
> >
> > I am not sure of what the cost would be for the printers and toner vs.
> having
> > the badges printed up.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> >                                                  K.
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