[Jenkins-events] QR code on name tags

Lisa Wells lwells at cloudbees.com
Wed Oct 30 20:09:47 UTC 2013


One thing to bring up: the point of the QR codes is for people to be able
to have their badges scanned at a particular table. We would be printing QR
codes on everyone's badge, but of course it's up to them if they let anyone
scan it. If the community is against printing QR codes on every badge, then
there's less of a point in doing QR codes.

I should mention that we are really having to work hard to keep this year's
sponsors happy, because 76% of attendees opted not to share their data.
This situation may make it difficult for sponsors to justify the cost for
next year.

It's a difficult balancing act!


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kk at kohsuke.org> wrote:

> Yes, indeed, this looks quite feasible. Let's plan on this next year.
>
>
> 2013/10/30 Sandell, Robert <Robert.Sandell at sonymobile.com>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: jenkins-events-bounces at lists.jenkins-ci.org [mailto:jenkins-
>> > events-bounces at lists.jenkins-ci.org] On Behalf Of Kohsuke Kawaguchi
>> > Sent: den 29 oktober 2013 20:20
>> > To: events at lists.jenkins-ci.org
>> > 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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