[Jenkins-events] QR code on name tags

[Sandell, Robert]

Eventbrite has an API to list the attendees of an event [1] I guess writing a simple app that generates a pdf should be quite straightforward the layout of the name tags are simple enough.
That way we could possibly even skip the QR code for those attendees that has opted out from being contacted at registration, the answers to the questions are a part of the payload returned by the API. If I've understood the docs correctly the "barcode" image could also be made available in that payload.

[1] https://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/events/event_list_attendees/



Robert Sandell
Software Tools Engineer - SW Environment and Product Configuration
Sony Mobile Communications


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> events-bounces at lists.jenkins-ci.org] On Behalf Of Kohsuke Kawaguchi
> Sent: den 29 oktober 2013 20:20
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> Subject: [Jenkins-events] QR code on name tags
> 
> 
> There was an off-list conversation about how to connect sponsors to
> attendees.
> 
> The last year several people felt really mad about one of the sponsors
> calling them up unsolicited, so this year we've added the opt-out
> option. Then we've heard from sponsors that it got in the way of
> connecting with people who they had good conversations in the booth.
> 
> So the topic of QR code came up once again. Alyssa said this off-list:
> 
> > I did give this some thought and also thought the QR code would be
> the
> > most cost effective way to do this. My concern is that each QR code
> > would need to be specialized to each attendees w/ their specific
> > contact info...600 names can be a daunting task to do manually.  I'm
> > sure there's an app out there that can automate the set up
> process..if
> > anyone has recommendation for an app pls let me know.
> 
> I haven't looked around carefully, but I'm pretty sure I can find a
> library that generates a PNG image of the QR code for arbitrary payload.
> 
> So the only remaining question to me is, how to integrate that with the
> current way Alyssa prepares name cards --- we need to insert the QR
> code image en-mass.
> 
> I suspect generating HTML would be the easiest. The layout will
> probably be imprecise, but I don't think it'll be an issue.
> 
> Alternatively, maybe we can hack up a quick PDF generation with a
> library like [1] and that'd give all the control we need with more room
> for extension?
> 
> 
> [1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/
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