Re: COMMON in San Antonio (fwd) -- MIDRANGE-L

Bob Cozzi wrote:
> 
> 
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> There is still that one burning issue, however. It is not printing 800
> copies of a 50-page handout for a room that seats 1000 people. Particularly
> when 1200 people show up for that session. I don't care about those kinds
> of sessions. Print the hand-out...  What I'm talking about is the dozens of
> sessions that are in 300 to 900 person rooms and we print 300 to 900
> copies, and 23 people show up. While those 23 people should get, and always
> do get, the same quality session as the 900 person attendance, we do end up
> with a lot more waste. And that waste is costing COMMON at least tens and
> perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars at _each_ conference.
> 
> Bob Cozzi
> Bob@RPGIV.COM
> www.rpgiv.com
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Bob,

What about the idea of having attendees "register" for the classes they
will attend the day before, something similar to registering for the
labs? Not to limit the number of people who could attend a particular
session, but to get a better idea of how many would attend. Perhaps you
could set up kiosks thoughout the hotel(s) where the conference is held,
and let people sign on and simply enter the course # for the courses
they intend to attend the following day.

This way you could get a general idea of how many handouts need to be
printed. It has the added advantage of letting you know in advance if
the course if scheduled for too small or too big a room. In Boston there
were at least half a dozen times where I had to stand along the wall, or
even outside, and try to hear the presenter, and try to follow along the
handout(if there were enough).

I would be more than happy to take the extra couple of minutes to fill
in a form, or signon to a terminal, if it meant I would be assured of a
handout(which I personally use heavily), and a seat. Of course this is
not a perfect solution, because not everyone arrives early and stays all
week. You would probably need to print 5-10% more handouts for the
people who fly in on the day of the sessions they want to attend, or the
people who just plain change their mind.

-- 
Lou Schmaus
Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
Parlin, NJ 08859
lschmaus@home.com

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