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

[Lei Zhang]

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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