[nylug-talk] Last Call: NYLUG RSVP system

[Ron Guerin]

Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Steven Lembark wrote:
> 
>> Alternative approach: Use the mailing list (or some separate
>> signup) as a pre-approved RSVP list. Anyone who shows up who
>> is on the pre-approved list gets in; anyone not on the list
>> will have to get onto the list by either joining the mailing
>> list or hitting up the website.
> 
> Err.. didn't Ron just describe a system like this a few days ago?

Not exactly, but close.  The problem is (as always) in the details.
Based on past experience, as I think I noted before, the rules will
inevitably tighten and loosen as the paranoia level in the city rises
and falls.  The system has to be designed to roll with the punches,
which is why I seem to be going to great lengths to make it easy to
attend, when simpler measures would seem to make more sense.  I can't
make the list go away, and there's only a little bit of give-and-take
when you're getting donated space from people who also have rules to
live with.  But I can try to make meeting attendance as spontaneous as
possible within the limitations of the meeting spaces, whether under
ideal, or less than ideal facilities access policies.

- Ron