Dear all, From the last debconf I really like the badges that were made
From debconf16 experience this is how things work/ed for me - a. Debconf registration opens (this year it was good 4 months in advance, 19th March 2016) b. Complete registration c. Get confirmation email that registration was successful d. Here it gets a bit murkier - d1. I had to buy airline tickets for visa (came to know about refundable deposits) way later, so it was a bit of gamble for me. Luckily came to know that the airline I booked (Qatar Airways) refunds money in case of visa refusal. d2. Needed a modified visa letter with more details than the standard one given by Debian e. Go to the visa people (vfsglobal in my case) pay the visa fees and simply wait. e1. Also apply for transit visa (which I didn't need to because Doha Al Hamad doesn't need a transit visa from Indians) otherwise another loop here itself. f. Get visa with some wrong information - probably exception here. g. Get it fixed by sending a letter to the Embassy clarifying what was wrong. h. Get the final fixed visa (28th May) i. Give final registration go-ahead (this tells Debian orga that you are really coming) j. Travel and attend debconf . Now I had been thinking that at I. could we give personalized digital badges to attendees to use and decorate it on their blog/website, a sort of official recognition that they are going to Debconf. I am thinking of https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Artwork going down to where the badges are - I tried to edit so that the artwork would generate a TOC, saw that there is _NOTOC_ and saw in the revision history that Valessio had generated the page with _NOTOC_ . Probably a valid reason for that hence left it alone. Few reasons why it may be a good idea - a. Such personalized badges are and would be fun and it could be used to decorate your website/blog with the personal touch. It shows you had gone or are going. b. I remember some people asking for certificate of attendance of the Conference. While some people may still ask for it, most would be happy with digital badges. c. People could decorate with number of badges so number of years they went can be easily seen, this publicizes the user/attendee's affliation with Debian and vice-versa. The only downside I see would be - People who are rejected years down the line due to some bad behaviour could use the badges to ill-repute Debian. How it would work - a. Have a script automatically incrementing the number when the final go-ahead is received form the attendee. b. If we wanna be fancy, we could use GNU barcode [$] aptitude show barcode | grep Description Description: Utility and library for barcode generation c. Have the Debconf that year badge as the background for the digital badge. What do people think of it ? -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
