[Scale-planning] SCALE 2008 postmortem?

Lei Zhang leiz at linux.ucla.edu
Wed Feb 13 01:44:52 PST 2008


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:57:34PM -0800, Matt Jones wrote:
> 1. The only major problem I had was with name-tag lanyards. Please, 
> please, please make the font bigger and print the names on both sides. I 
> had a real hard time reading people's names, even on the rare instances 
> where the name-tag was facing the correct direction. Yes I wear glasses, 
> but had broken them before the event. I'm sure many people were 
> wondering why I was using my face as an OCR scanner on their name-tag. 
> If you need more ink and paper to do this, I will donate $200.

There's only so much room on a 4x3 piece of paper. If an attendee's name
is 8 letters, then it will come out nice and big. If the person's name
is 30 letters, there's no much I can do other than shrinking the font.

- Lei



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