Back in a former life, I was active in a user group elsewhere. I considered putting in a 'bar swipe' on a 'checkin computer'.
The first time you visit/join, put in name, address, email, etc, and choose some card, like Visa, Kroger, Drivers License, etc, and swipe it. The idea was to 'register' the card (like take the fields in swipe strip 1 and encrypt it using password type, one way encrypting method, and just saved. Give the folks a 'sticker', so they can remember what card they used. The next meeting, just swipe the card, and you are 'registered' for having attended that meeting. We also found that it helpped to give away schwag, one or two things, at each meeting. When you have logged in, for the meeting, a random number generator is run at the end of the meeting to choose a winner. Officers were automatically excluded at that group, but that was their way. Schwag was usually an O'Riley book, software from SCO, Red Hat, etc. Whomever we could email and beg stuff from. The Books, we requested a 500 word (more or less) review by the next meeting that we put on the web site, and the 'schwag queen' (officer that handled getting the schwag, usually the president, or vp) would send a copy and a link back to the company. It helped keep up 'relations' with the vendors. Often when we called and had 'commercial vendors' present, we would suggest them bringing the schwag, t-shirt, mug, whatever. We also gave schwag credit on our web site for helping sponsor the meetings. Enough of my ADD wanderings. If it something sounds good, use it. If not, the this is just more wast of all our bandwidth! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
