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<body style="background-color: white; color: black;"><div style=""><div id="x5923506c432d47b3b38d87d7d9c6445c" style=""><div style="background-color: white; color: black;">Hello Thomas,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br style="" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black;">I appreciate the work you and the others in Team:Entrance are doing, but the tone of your last mail didn’t land well with me. I’d like us to keep the conversation respectful, assumption‑free and collaborative.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br style="" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black;">Let’s sit down in person on Saturday 26 July with Christel to make one clear, documented decision volunteer load and entrance queue. To make ensure all vistors have an welcoming entrance to WHY2025 and all involved volunteers have a good time.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br style="" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black;">I am sure we can find way to make this work for all involved and until we’ve aligned, I’d prefer we don’t discard options; let’s look at throughput, volunteer capacity and communcation impact together.</div><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">
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<div style=""><br style="" /></div><div id="signature_old" style="clear: both;"><div id="x946fa47d23944ab08aa144a5f6b5d9d1" style="">Warm regards,<div style=""><br style="" /></div><div style="">Robert / Number3</div><div style=""><i style="">Secretary - IFCAT Board</i></div><div style=""><i style="">Member of Team:Info for WHY2025<br style="" /><br style="" />M: +31 (06) 39 23 89 96<br style="" />E: <a href="mailto:number3@ifcat.org" style="">number3@ifcat.org</a></i></div></div></div><div style=""><br style="" /></div>
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<div style="">Van "thomascovenant" <<a href="mailto:why2025@thomascovenant.org" style="">why2025@thomascovenant.org</a>></div>
<div style="">Aan "number3" <<a href="mailto:number3@ifcat.org" style="">number3@ifcat.org</a>></div>
<div style="">Datum 24/07/2025 14:24:52</div>
<div style="">Onderwerp Kids under 6 rule and Goodie bag lane will not be implemented</div></div><div x-em-quote="" style=""><br style="" /></div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">Hello Robert,</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">(it is nice to start with Hello for people who volunteer for the event, yes?)</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">You have not asked if your orders are ok with Entrance, how they will influence the Entrance or if we have any input on it. That is a team who lets in all the visitors.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">At this point it has been decided not to hand out badges to kids under 6. So this has to be >put into ticket and entrance handout procedure (that's why christel is in the CC).</div>
<div class="plain_line" style="">Also it is clear now</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">I appreciate putting the instruction in bold letters, but we all can read and it does not magically make it so.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">Let me give some thoughts on it:</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">Event has badge shortage. WHY is not announcing the badge shortage and there is a PR no-waste solution.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">1. Asking each visitor if they want a badge slows the queue down. It is doable.</div>
<div class="plain_line" style="">Let's be real - over 90% of the people will want a badge.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">2. Having a separate lane is not sensible due to (1) and will create extra chaos.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">3. Asking volunteers to remember kids' age limit, ask their parents - why do you want to know? explain - who then asks the kid if she wants a badge (what is a badge, father? explain). This is inefficient. People do get annoyed, kids get disappointed - I just found out what badge is but I can't get one!</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">I do not want to put my volunteers through this just to make badge shortage look better so we are not doing points 2 and 3. Clear, fast entrance for 3k+ people and sanity of my volunteers is my priority. If we have capacity, people with small kids and disabilities will get any separate special lanes.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">When badges run out, when lines get long and chaotic, when kids complain, alcohol wristband is denied or anything else goes wrong... T&E gets the blame, heat and frustration. I hope you can keep it in mind.</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">Kind regards,</div>
<div class="plain_line" style="">thomas</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">* * *</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style="">Friendly geek in Amsterdam</div>
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<div class="plain_line" style=""><a href="https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Thomascovenant" style="">https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/User:Thomascovenant</a></div>
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