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

[Brent Barker]

>> 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.

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

The problem with that is when the 4:00-4:30 block is not finished by
the end of the time, so you have a big backlog. The queuing system
described above fixes this by letting the operator control how long
the line is. You could map out a tentative time-schedule to go with
the ticket number though, so if someone wanted to get a ticket for
later on, they could. Though this would only be slightly better than
just any ticket, and for the added thought involved may not be
beneficial.

 --Brent