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[Debconf-team] Lanyards, badge holders and badges



Hi all,

following up on the discussion that happenned today on IRC, let me try 
to sommarize its origin and outcomes.

The situation is that we need attendee badges for all sorts of reasons 
and the usual way to do that has been that the conference would provide 
these individual badges, the badges holders and lanyards (usually). As 
these three things are separate, let's try to keep them so.

a) Lanyards

One of our silver sponsors is apparently happy to provide enough branded 
(not Debian-branded, sponsor-branded) lanyards for everyone, for free. 
Given that they are a sponsor already, I think it's sane to let them 
provide the lanyards to the DebConf attendees. For reference, a similar 
offer has been made by a Bronze sponsor.

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard#Badge_or_identification_holder

b) Badge holders

The current idea is to buy 300 A7 badge holders from Roscheba [0], for 
roughly 126€, aka 160 CHF.

[0] http://www.roscheba.de/product_info.php?info=p116

Apparently Holger might have a cheaper solution; Holger?

c) Individual badges

There are roughly two solutions there: strong credit-card format  or 
paperboard. One concern that was rised was that it mattered to have two-
sided badges

Credit-card format: A Bronze sponsor is proposing us 0.30 CHF/item for 
one-sided black&white, or 0.65 CHF/item for one-sided colour.

Paperboard: If we fold A6 in two, we can do 4 double-sided badges per A4 
sheet printed only on one side (or 8 double-sided badges if we print on 
two sides, but it's trickier to succeed). The printing of such A4 sheets 
(that we can then cut ourselves) is likely to be around 30 CHF/item.

I suggest to go with the second possibility.

d) Design

I intend to work on three generic designs: Organiser, Staff and 
Attendee, but the final layout will depend on the shape selected in c), 
above. AFAIK there was no personalisation used: photo and informations 
from penta, right?

Thanks in advance, cheers,

OdyX

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