[GTALUG] Prompting the return of In-Person events.

[David Mason]

Toronto Metropolitan University, Computer Science dept is still happy to
host. (I'm Chair of the department.)

For whatever reasons, the university does require card access, both to the
outside door and to the lab door. If there were 2 volunteers, one to let
people in the outside door, and one to be in the lab and let people in
there, I'm sure we can arrange for a staff member to let those 2 volunteers
in, although I was thinking more like 18:00 than 19:00.

../Dave

On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 at 16:56, Scott Sullivan via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> You remember the challenge correctly for the room. T?he critical
> difference isn't at the room doors, but now the building doors. Those
> were open access, letting anyone into the building through the half
> dozen different entry points. I was led to understand that was curtailed
> during the pandemic. So there are now to points of access control for
> ingress. That is significant friction increase.
>
> I've not gotten recent ground truth as to how real a problem this remains.
>
>
> On 2024-07-12 18:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> >
> > | The two previous options that we used now require passcards at the
> door and
> > | would be extremely inconvenient.
> >
> > I thought I remembered that at Toronto Metropolitan University we could
> > let people in at the door but that it was otherwise locked.  (You may
> have
> > corrected me before but sometimes my old memories are sticky.)
> >
> > If my memory is correct, all we'd need was a single person with a pass
> card
> > and someone to volunteer to be at the door to let people in
> > (alternatively: catch phone calls with requests to be let in).
> >
> > If we made it clear in meeting announcements that the door would not be
> > opened after a certain time, the door person would not even have to miss
> > any of the meeting.
> >
> > This worked satisfactorily for various meetings at the Mozilla offices.
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