Hello All, On 26/03/2008, Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All hail the new God of badges! > > > > > > http://me.in-berlin.de/~darwin/tmp/badges.pdf > > > Seriously, Dinu, this is wonderful.
Yes, very very welcome. However, before we all get carried away and start doing things, can I remind you that we are trying to produce a conference system that we can reuse? As stated in previous ep-improve postings and IRC meetings, we have started doing a booking and registration system which will gather all delegates' data as well as taking payments. There is an ep wiki page at http://europython.org/community/RegistrationBookingPaymentsSystem, with a link to our initial design at http://www.pywm.eu/Projects/Conference_System/ One of the things that the Registration system will do is produce the delegate badges: double sided, with extra information inside to help with registration etc: eg if the delegate has to pay money on the door, whethere they're booked on a tutorial, their tee shirt size, dinner table etc etc. Work has been started on this by Richard Wall: I'm sure he'd welcome lots of help from Dinu, especially as he's using Reportlab to produce the badges and Dinu must have lots of knowledge there ;) > People have complained in the past they want space for their irc nick, > but we should probably post a note in the usual places and find out > what else they want space for. projects they are working on, probably. > > > >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. > > > Alas, they ruin your clothes. We can almost certainly get good quality badge holders and lanyards from o'Reilly as part of their sponsorship. Experience shows that sticky labels are unsightly as well as dropping off, clip badges are not suitable for today's fashions, and the only badges worth having are double-sided badges on lanyards, with the same information on each side so that it is always visible. One problem with having a lot of information like irc nicks is that someone has to collect it. Best wishes, See you Friday! John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
