[committee] An idea for LCA volunteering
Sam Moore
matches at ucc.asn.au
Sat Jan 4 17:21:36 WST 2014
This sounds like a good idea. I'm not actually sure how much toner
Phosphorous has left, but I'm willing to try and set this up tomorrow
morning.
On 04/01/14 17:09, Harry McNally wrote:
> Hi Sam
>
> I had an idea for a vol task that can be done autonomously with bits
> of computer detritis around UCC; tell me what you think..
>
> There has been a fair bit of angst from delegates on the lca [chat]
> list because they got on a plane and -then- got an email saying they
> needed to print their lca boarding pass to paper in order to register.
> There is a alternative way to register that hasn't been designed for
> efficiency that (I think) requires some ID and "physical person auth"
> to register.
>
> Most people that haven't got a dead tree boarding pass -do- have a
> copy in an email on their laptops. Can we set up, in the registration
> area, a self serve printing kiosk with the sole purpose of printing
> boarding passes. I had the notion is could be a network printer
> (hopefully with DHCP) or a PC and parallel printer (whatever) attached
> to a 24port switch with a swarm of cat5 cables hanging out that people
> can just plug-and-print. This means some negotiation of picking up the
> right piece of paper but I'm sure people can figure that out.
>
> If you think it's do-able, I'd suggest asking Luke John if it's workable.
> And I'm also assuming UCC has a mono or colour printer with enough
> toner to print maybe 100 to 200 of the boarding passes.
>
> If Luke says go, as soon as you have a tested solution I can email
> onto [chat] saying "remain calm and don't try to serch out a printer
> .. we'll have this system [description ..]"
>
> Anyway, I'm down at TAVNOC tomorrow if you are going. I know there
> will be -plenty- to do tomorrow since I did drop in in the morning to
> chat to Jason about the AV setup and ended up measuring some cable
> lengths etc. I know there is a -lot- of config and installation to do
> for the AV and some vol work is just remaining in the room if another
> person needs to dash back to TAVNOC for a missing item (we can't get
> back into the room unless someone stays put and also to guard the gear
> during setup and test. But I'm ure there is a lot more besides to be
> done.
>
> See you tomorrow if you can make it :-)
> Harry
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