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

David Lang david at lang.hm
Fri Mar 10 04:52:43 UTC 2017


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.


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