On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:18:33AM -0700, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > I have checked-in printable PDF files for the large 36"x24" signs, so > that Tony can do some printing tomorrow. Since no one in this > organization provided any feedback to my questions about the actual > *content* of the signs, the text in these signs is pretty generic: > "Front Desk", "Room 327", etc. The rooms already have signage from the university, I don't know that it makes sense to reproduce the university's own names for the rooms on the signs. Would it be better to label these "Talk Room 1" - "Talk Room 3", and "Hacklab 1", "Hacklab 2"? > This should keep Tony's printing pipeline full while the people who > want a huge horizontal banner use the miracle of consensus to figure > out what size it should be. 3'x5' should be more than adequate. Maybe 2'x5', if we're worried about the height. > On 08/16/2014 03:24 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 08:51:08AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > >>>Note that the precise wording in the sponsorship brochure, for gold sponsors > >>>and above, is: > > > >>> Logo on banner in conference lobby > > > >>>This implies that there will be a banner. I don't think a 36"x24" sign > >>>quite qualifies as a banner, do you. Can we make a 36"x yay-long banner? > >>>(I don't remember if your printer width was 24" or 36"?) > > > >>The paper width is 36" and it's scroll-fed. (The printer will print up > >>to 44", but I don't have ready access to that sort of media.) If we're > >>going to print 36xN (for N >> 24), keep in mind that you're going to > >>need to have some way to mount it. It won't stand freely, and will have > >>a tendency to curl because the paper is scroll-fed. > > > >For the "conference lobby" banner (aka "front desk"), would it suffice to > >mount this banner to the front of the table? Tape the top two corners, tie > >the bottom two using a couple of grommets? > > > >For the posters in the talk rooms, I think the plan already discussed should > >be fine: mounted on a backing board, set on easels (I have asked PSU for the > >easels). > > > >>Responding to some of the snipped bits in Matto's original message, it > >>sounds like we're potentially planning to have a large number of > >>banners. In previous meetings we talked about 2, or maybe just 1 sign > >>per talk room, plus some general signage. I have been thinking that the > >>number was ~7 large signs + misc. I will print as much as a I can next > >>week, but at 40 minutes per 24x36" sign, the possibility of running out > >>of supplies and being temporarily blocked, and the fact that I still > >>have to work (I'll be babysitting the printer after-hours); it would be > >>helpful to know the relative priority order of the signs. 2 buckets: > >>must have/nice to have > > > >Minimum requirements: one "banner" (of some shape and description) in the > >conference lobby, one "banner" for each talk room > > > >I think we don't need a second sign per room at all, and didn't realize > >people were still thinking along those lines. I definitely don't think it's > >worth spending a lot of money renting a second set of easels from PSU just > >to hold these signs; so I would hold off on worrying about a second set > >until we have pricing from PSU. > > > >Nice to have: everything else > > > >>Also, I'll need to check to see whether we have 11x17 available (recent > >>change in our office printers). If I can't print those, perhaps someone > >>else can, or we can make a run to Kinkos. > > > >Personally, I think 8.5x11 would be perfectly fine here for the other > >signage. Except for the downstairs hack lab, everything's really close in, > >so the main function of these for attendees is to identify which rooms are > >the DebConf rooms, which really doesn't require much more than a swirl you > >can see from down the hall. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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