In reality, if someone wants to gain unethical entry to most events, they will. It's generally not difficult unless there is a lot of actual security. I've been working on this for a 2000+ person event in the US and are plan is to accept largely any proof, knowing that there's no level of realistic checking we can do that would stop a determined person, especially as our attendees will be coming from all over the world.
I don't want to make a false equivalence between someone sneaking into an event and someone putting themselves and others in danger by trying to show up un-vaxxed, rather to say that what UKNOF is doing, as I'm sure the team is aware, is essentially best practice right now and I believe perfection is basically impossible here. I'm only sad I won't be there myself! Thanks, Brian Brian Nisbet (he/him) Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 [email protected] www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 ________________________________ From: uknof <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Karmeinsky <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday 3 November 2021 23:47 To: Leo Vegoda <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Tom Hill <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [uknof] UKNOF48 - What Will be Different? CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. Events I've been to will take a COVID passport as per NHS app, a signed letter from GP/etc saying you're jabbed or test negative, a NHS email/text saying PCR or LFT negative (though faking a LFT result and entering the data on the NHS site to get an email/text is trivial). Steve On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 22:58, Leo Vegoda <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Tom, On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:33 PM Tom Hill <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On 03/11/2021 17:12, Tom Hill wrote: > > I suspect it would be very pertinent to shout loudly and clearly, on > > this list (as opposed to in a blog post) about the requirement to prove > > your COVID-19 vaccination status as a condition of entry to the event. > > And yes, I realised after sending this that Leo had written that into a > communication about the event a few weeks ago. > > I should revise the point to state that it would be best to include this > in *every* communication to the list, given that it's a) very different > to how things were, and b) not everyone reads or remembers every email > to the list. :) This is useful feedback. Thanks! It's hard to know how to get the balance right between reaching everyone who'd like to attend and people missing other important things because they see the same message again and stop reading. That said, we have this published on the event web page, the Indico site, in the registration agreement, and in one of the two blog posts. Kind regards, Leo -- NetTek Ltd UK mob +44 7775 755503 UK +44 20 3432 3735 / US +1 (650) 423 1390 social id stevekennedyuk Euro Tech News Blog http://eurotechnews.<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Feurotechnews.blogspot.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C5c103b8177df48325c7208d99f24956b%7Ccd9e8269dfb648e082538b7baf8d3391%7C0%7C0%7C637715801772675978%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=YMrpVA9VhleAQaXiPkX9xzsfngenJlq26hNegIMI%2FXs%3D&reserved=0>net
