[GLLUG] P'Con 2010 discussions before Handover Meeting?

[Trevor Jagoda]

Just sell tickets to specific time blocks.  Then people dont have to keep
coming back to check what number you're on.



On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter Smith <psmith.gllug at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm going to be down at the Trek premiere at the Detroit Science
> Center tonight, so I won't be back in town till well after midnight.
>
> There was talk of having a GLLUG P'con discussion on Saturday....but
> things I've read out here seem to imply that tonight is the only time
> that there's going to be chatter, so, I thought I'd add something from
> the after-hours bit on Sunday.
>
> I was handed a suggestion for how to handle the queuing problem we
> had, and encouraged not to reveal the source, so when it blew up in
> our faces, I'd get all the credit. :) All I can say is "Never set the
> cat on fire..."
>
> Anyhow...the idea was to number the tickets (not too hard) and then
> set it up with an airport boarding queue sort of thing. It took about
> 45 minutes for the first 28 servings (meat went down at ~5:05-5:10, by
> 5:25 meat was coming out, and the dealer's room cart went away about
> 5:45 or so), and then, what, another 5-6 hours for the remaining 400.
> Kay, so that's about 60 an hour. Call it 100/hr with enough people and
> just a touch more grill space, and go back to 400 people from 4pm to
> 8pm
>
> 4pm, start the grill, put up a sign, "Serving Ticket numbers 1 - 50
> (as Beef is available)" . That gives you a queue of no more than 50
> people, which is less than half what I counted at 5:15. You don't
> serve them in order of number, but you don't take anyone over 50. Send
> them to the back of the line if they WANT to queue up.
>
> 4:15, Serving begins
>
> 4:30, 25 people have been served. Bump the number to 1-75 (or 'less
> than 76' if you wish, whatever verbiage)
>
> 4:45, 50 people have been served. Bump the number to 1-100
>
> 5:00, 75 people have been served, Bump it up to 125....
>
> If you're #300, you know not to come back till at least 6:00 and check
> the number. If it's close, great, get in line, we did better. If we're
> running slow, reestimate, and go do something else.
>
>
> IMHO, we'll do well with it as long as it's NOT 'a meal' for people
> who have to eat at a certain time.
>
> Yes, I've got opinions on bunches of other things too, but this was
> the only one that was given to me by someone else, and I wanted to be
> sure it was transferred. :)
>
> --
> Peter Smith
> psmith.gllug at gmail.com
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