[Scale-planning] speaker info on badges

[der.hans]

Am 10. Aug, 2016 schwätzte Hriday Balachandran so:

moin moin,

> The issue with a label printer and a QR code is that it adds to the badge
> pickup time.

The label printer would not need to be kept with or done at the same time
as badge pickup.

Even if we don't do a printout of some sort we could provide QR codes for
speakers to keep on their phones.

OK, don't tell anyone, but I did some graphics work :).

I grabbed the SCaLE menu logo off the site. A few adjustments to that
will give us better visual results, but the QR code works. Attached is an
example.

qrencode -o SCaLE14x_der.hans_qr_cli.png 'http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x/speakers/der-hans'

convert -gravity center -composite SCaLE14x_der.hans_qr_cli.png scale_penguin_menu.png SCaLE14x_der.hans_qr_cli_logo.png

Looks quite scriptable to me. I'll create a shell script if you want.

> The far more elegant solution is a smart phone app with notifications
> enabled. The ones out there are expensive and not really worth it for us.

Are we going to use Guidebook again?

> We would need to develop one. If there's someone that wants to take the
> task on, please let me know.

What features do we want? Not offering to pop out a phone app :), but
knowing desired features could generate ideas on how to get them.

ciao,

der.hans

> Bala.
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Mx Siltanen <mrsiltanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Perhaps we can get a label printer and allow custom prints w a QR code to
>> add to the badge?
>>
>> That way we can keep up with updates if they occur and people can print
>> and promote their talk or booth by printing both text and QR code.
>>
>> Thinking:
>>
>> "My Cool Open Source talk" [ QR code ]
>> " Sat 11AM Room 101A"
>>
>> --
>> "Job BOF" [ QR code ]
>> "Fri 8PM Room 301B"
>>
>> ---
>> "Robot Demo at" [ QR code ]
>> "Booth 29, 1PM"
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Carlos <scale-planning at digitalr00ts.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome idea!
>>>
>>> Carlos Meza
>>> @DIGITALR00TS
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:57 AM, der.hans <Verteiler+scale-planning at luft
>>> hans.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> moin moin,
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/cczona/status/687654996112990208
>>>>
>>>> That came up in the SeaGL channel.
>>>>
>>>> As was pointed out, schedule changes happen and updates would be
>>>> difficult. SCaLE has been great about not having changes, so that's less
>>>> of an issue :).
>>>>
>>>> However, for me, as a speaker, the main reason I want info on my badge is
>>>> for others who want to go to my talks, so I would actually prefer a QR
>>>> code with a link to either my talk page or my speaker page, which would
>>>> then have easy to use links for calendar entry and/or guidebook entry.
>>>>
>>>> I actually meant to do that on my own last year :), but didn't get to it
>>>> :(.
>>>>
>>>> ciao,
>>>>
>>>> der.hans
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