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@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@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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