On Wednesday 11 February 2004 01:05, Mark A. Miller wrote: > > This is becoming a mountain out of a molehill here. I've seen many > > different conventions (SF and Linux), and generally they haven't got the > > logistics to distinguish badge types. > > Joe, who is a dealer at Linucon, wants to go setup his table in the > dealer's room. Bill, who is the security guard at the door, is not > letting the public in. How does Bill verify Joe is not a guy who wants > to mess us stuff in the dealer's room, without a list?
That's a special case that I mentioned earlier, and agreed to earlier. Times when the dealer's room is closed to normal people, we need a way to let abnormal people in. Similarly, we need a way to let staff into con ops, we need a way to let gophers into the gopher's room, we need a way to let panelists into the green room... What we're NOT going to care about is what kind of badge is going into panels, con suite, the art show, the dealer's room when it's open... > > Also, dealers aren't generally going to be ordering gophers around unless > > gophers have been sent to the dealer's room to help out by a staff > > member. > > Right...you keep throwing this "Dealer" thing in here, I was referring > to general need by other such staff, such as those in Registration. Hence badge ribbons that say things like "con staff" or "security". Personally, I intend to buy "Staff" Linucon t-shirts for the core con staff, and be wearing my "Strep" shirt... > > Let's not invent mechanisms to deal with problems that don't exist yet, > > ok? > > But they will... This is a specific thing. There are areas where only certain people are allowed in. This is NOT the norm for high-traffic events. I suspect we agree that getting high traffic areas to discriminate between types of badges is a bad thing. Certain areas that most people are NOT allowed in requiring a key is something else... And now I'm off to bed... Rob
