On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jerry Mouton wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> Sure it does! If you register 200 entrants at the same
> slow pace, it takes twice as long! Two minutes a person,
> you're talking 6 3/4 hours! And I think our current time
> to register someone gets almost that long now without
> computer problems. And in summer we get 300.
Demonstrably it doesn't take that long; registration is only open for four
hours and it isn't continually busy.
I think that the actual value would be somewhere around 45 seconds, and it
could be less if we needed it to be. A lot of the spare time is people
hanging around filling out their cards and work assignments or asking
questions; but if you count faces passing in front of each registration
station it isn't very long. If you need to cut it in half for
burstability, set up another line; the only interdependent step is work
assignments. For that matter, if you set up the work assignment and
waiver section as a separate line, and made people fill out their checks
ahead of time, you could cut registration time by close to 50%, I bet.
KeS
(hopes to run my first Qualcomm local event this Sunday...)
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