Re: i18n name badges

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 19-nov-03, at 22:28, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>
> > It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets.
> Wouldn't it be even cheaper if everyone who has a laptop with wireless 
> with them signs in on an electronic version of the blue sheets? This 
> just takes a few hours of fiddling with PHP and saves the secretariat 
> probably 90% of the blue sheet processing.
But would people do it? As it is now, the blue sheet comes around and 
you sign it; done.  If the chair stood up and said, "Remember to sign in 
at ietf.org/bluesheet", people would put it off until it was convenient, 
and many would forget.
If we want to reduce the cost of processing the blue sheets, we could 
provide each attendee with a sheet of barcode stickers.  The bluesheet 
comes around, you put one of your stickers on it, you pass it on.  Then 
the secretariat needs just one barcode scanner, and can probably get 
done faster than it takes to do data entry on the current bluesheets.
The barcodes would have unique IDs; the secretariat would print up a 
couple thousand in advance of a meeting and save the unused ones for the 
next meeting.  When someone registered on-site, the registration process 
would include scanning one of their barcodes, to build the link between 
barcode and name.
A quick search at Amazon shows address labels, 25 sheets of 30, for 
$10.  Give each attendee one sheet; that's 40 cents per person.  Less 
than RFID, we only need one reader, and barcode readers are cheap.  Or 
somebody could hack up software to do barcode recognition on the image 
of the bluesheet, and then the secretariat can use a flatbed scanner and 
scan a whole sheet at a time.
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