#174: Need namebadge template for FUDCon Tempe -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rrix | Owner: nobody Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Component: Other Artwork Severity: Quick & Easy | Resolution: Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Comment (by nushio):

Would adding a QRCode with Name, fas account, blog and/or email be out of the question?

I created a Sample Badge using a QRCode generated by http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ however it's not set as a "QR Contact Card" which would be a lot better.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/162062/SampleBadge.png

Hope this helps a bit.

#174: Need namebadge template for FUDCon Tempe -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rrix | Owner: nobody Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Component: Other Artwork Severity: Quick & Easy | Resolution: Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Changes (by pfrields):

* cc: ianweller (added)

Comment:

Wow, that's a really great idea. We do need to keep in mind there's a LOT of variance in the following:

* Information that people provide via FAS * What information a specific scanning device or software will process

To keep things simple, less error-prone, and hopefully as useful as possible, I would propose we use something like the following, encoded in the QR Code:

{{{ BEGIN:VCARD N:John Q. Public URL:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:jqpublic EMAIL:jqpublic@fedoraproject.org END:VCARD }}}

That's plenty to allow someone to be able to get in touch with you from their conference contacts. I just tried this as a test with my Android phone, using the barcode scanner app I already have, and it works amazingly well. I'm sure there are many other apps that work just as well.

We'll investigate whether we can either (1) work with Ian Weller, design flavored geek to the stars, :-) to create a template to generate PDFs for this using the 'qrencode' utility that's in Fedora already, or (2) try to incorporate this into a ODT of some sort.