Hi.... What I really want to do is eliminate the problem of the badge as a name tag being useless 50% of the time because the side with the name is turned toward the body. Somehow, getting the name on both sides would solve this problem.

And why is this a problem? People respond better when you can call them by name. Also, if it is someone you haven't seen in a year or 2, it allows you to avoid the embarrassment of having to ask when they greet you by your name!

I don't remember exactly how they did it, but the much smaller Linuxfest NW last May had a very different badge that always showed the name. Anyone else go and remember how they did it? It also had a mini program as part of the badge, but SCaLE is too big for that.

Caryl

Ilan,

What you said was kind of sobering, this couldn't of been said any better, thank you. If people want to get expo passes and see the con because they can't afford a full pass. We are about education, not profit. This is why we all do what we do every year.

I feel like this thread keeps trying to reinvent the wheel, which will cost the team more time and money to prevent what? If leave things the way they are, its not like people who are "stealing" are really hurting the con for anyone else. Are they?

Do we really want impose changes to the rest of the 3000+ attendees because a hand full of people want to cause trouble?

To top it off, the talks are free online after.

Sean

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Hriday Balachandran <bala@socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:

Ok, lots of things here. Here's our guiding principle. Attendees
(mostly anyway) are not at SCALE to hang out at the reg desk. So, we
want them to spend as little time there as possible. To that end, we
try to come up with solutions that streamline all the user experience
into one solution.

Multiple printers serving up different kinds of badges, separate
queues, specialized badge stations etc will all work, but violate the
guiding principle. Incidentally, that's also the reason that we have
only one badge per sheet when we can have 6 in theory. We tried that
once, and um, no, not fun.

We can solve this problem if we introduce expensive badge solutions
with RFID etc, but that will increase the cost of the conference, and
we are loathe to doing that.

Bala.

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Ken <scalezz@kemasa.com> wrote:
> It might not be worth the cost, but if you used a color duplex printer, you
> could print the badge on both sides, as well you would not have to have the
> badge paper printed up (same with just a color printer). This would reduce
> the waste of paper ,or having badges from Scale 12x hanging around (yes, I
> saw that stack).
>
> It would also give an option to print special, noticable badges for any
> purpose, such as tech, a/v, volunteer, speaker, expo, etc.
>
> I am not sure of what the cost would be for the printers and toner vs. having
> the badges printed up.
>
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