what is the purpose of scanning the badge? It's been stated that we don't track anything per user and aren't that worried about a few cheaters.
anything that requires handling lots of pieces of paper is going to be far less efficient than just having a couple of pieces of paper on a clipboard with people just adding a hashmark to the correct section when they hand out a shirt. (or as I said earlier, a trivial app could do this electronically)
I arrived late, so I didn't see the lines, but if people are worried about speeding up the lines, eliminating fighting scanners or fumbling with papers just slows things down.
If you are worried about preventing cheating, print a coupon and when the coupons are handed to the person giving out the shirt, they can just drop it in a different box depending on the size if you are willing to count all the scraps of paper.
but you shouldn't have to scan them later if we aren't correlating people to shirt sizes.
DAvid Lang
On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Lei Zhang wrote:
Is it really that much slower to write "M2XL" vs making a chicken scratch on a sheet of paper? What if I pre-printed some sizes on the coupon and put checkboxes next to them?
I'd be scanning the same barcode as the one on the attendee badges, to verify it is a valid badge, and inputting the hand written size / checked box at the same time. Basically doing what we did this year, but deferring the actual scanning because some people insist that's what slows down the t-shirt pick up process.