Dinu Gherman wrote: > Hi, > > I've looked at the roles page (on which I'll comment later) and > found an item which I already worked on in a previous project: > conference badges. So I repurposed my code and came up with the > following sample document below. > > I noticed last year (like on many conferences) that people tend > to become sloppy wearing their badges after day 1 or 2. And I be- > lieve this is because after two days their information value has > dropped significantly, since people by then mostly know "who is > who", at least for a conference of this size (PyCon might be > different). > > So I thought the badges should make a statement about the days > a participant will attend (so others know when to go hunting them > for a chat). > > And they should express the basic conference related topics/tags > a participant is interested in (or is speaking about), so people > can more easily find peers, discover common interests, share ex- > perience, get better involved and make the most out of the con- > ference. > > Regarding the marix code (in this case QR-Code): it could be used > either for identification using mobile phones with the respective > software or for pointing others to a website (or anything else) > of its carrier. Or both with double-sided badges, maybe.
+1 for double-sided, that makes the other 50% of them readable! Kit > The logo could be any bitmap, SVG (with reduced feature set) or > PDF. So here's the sample using an old EuroPython logo: > > http://me.in-berlin.de/~darwin/tmp/badges.pdf > > One more thing, I know that "good" plastic "containers" for such > badges tend to be expensive for a community event like this, apart > from not being quite "environmentally correct". But recently I > watched some old American seminar video recordings with people > wearing labels sticked on their jackets, shirts, etc. This might > be an idea, even if such labels are likely to deteriorate physi- > cally after a couple of days. > > Just a few ideas to improve this part of the conference experience. > > Regards, > > Dinu > > _______________________________________________ > Europython-improve mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve -- Kit BLAKE · Infrae · http://infrae.com/ + 31 10 243 7051 Hoevestraat 10 · 3033 GC · Rotterdam + The Netherlands OpenPGP 0xE67AD0F2 · Contact = http://xri.net/=kitblake _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
