This look like a really good idea. I still havent bought in the digital badges idea, but I like it.
Mozilla has something similar using open badges: https://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack/login Problem is ideas are many and time limited. Are you stepping forward to make it work? :) On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:52 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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