[Inpycon] On using QR codes for sponsor-participant contact exchange.

[vijay kumar]

Yeah we can print schedule this year.


On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:

> If we're printing a page for each participant, let's also consider
> printing a small copy of the schedule for each of them so that they can
> carry it around with them. Last year it was one of the suggestions.
>
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> Thanks,
> Bibhas Debnath
> http://bibhas.in
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 6:28 PM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I understand last year we were not in position to experiment as we
>> were very late.
>> This year we have done home work and testing already . There is small
>> cost of print card before hard which should be fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
>>
>>> We had this suggestion and discussion the last time after the event. We
>>> decided to not use any software for contact exchange. The problems we faced
>>> last year in contact exchange was due to the technology involved. It's much
>>> much easier and smooth if the participants just go to the stall and write
>>> their contacts. The hardwares showed faults, network was faulty at some
>>> point, that made the volunteers run around and spend too much time
>>> debugging things. It sounds easy when you write like that, but during the
>>> event, the smallest glitch will require at least 3-4 volunteers run around
>>> all the sponsor tables to debug and fix it. My feelings from last year was
>>> that it's not worth it.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bibhas Debnath
>>> http://bibhas.in
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 9:27 AM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> it sound good to me.
>>>> We even need to check Tablet for rent . If anyone in mailing list have
>>>> contact where we can rent Tablet please let us know. If we get 10+ tablet
>>>> for rent then we can extend it to even silver sponsor's .
>>>>
>>>> With Thanks
>>>> Vijay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Haris Ibrahim K. V. <
>>>> blucalvin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ladies and gentlemen,
>>>>>
>>>>> During the last offline volunteers meetup, we discussed about
>>>>> alternatives that we could use for contact exchange between the
>>>>> sponsors and participants.
>>>>>
>>>>> We had using Bar code readers in mind. Sayan and I took it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> In between research, Praseetha suggested using QR codes for this
>>>>> purpose. We investigated on that end and here are the observations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Create QR codes for each registered participant before hand using this
>>>>> API http://goqr.me/api/. Put them sorted alphabetically and hand it
>>>>> over to the participants during registration. Printing it during
>>>>> registration is a no-no. Tons of things that could go wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a tablet (labelled with sponsor name) at every sponsor stall with
>>>>> QR code app installed. The app is called QR Droid. It scans and stores
>>>>> the information within a database. The sponsor can see the history at
>>>>> any time they choose to. After the event, the app allows you to export
>>>>> the data as a CSV. We'll have to write a CSV parser to parse the data
>>>>> and send it to the respective sponsors.
>>>>>
>>>>> The API allows 10k requests per day. So we're good there. This
>>>>> approach will have the side effect of participants being able to
>>>>> exchange contact info. Guess that is good side effect to have.
>>>>>
>>>>> This approach requires neither a centralized server nor an Internet
>>>>> connection. The Internet is usually the main problem in these
>>>>> scenarios. Hence, we avoid that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sayan tested the API and the app. It seems to be working as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> We would like to hear your thoughts. With the exception of Murphy
>>>>> hanging around PyCon India as an uninvited guest, unless there is
>>>>> something that could obviously go wrong with this approach, it seems
>>>>> reasonable to implement.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, as for the Bar code reader, bar codes can only store numbers. Then
>>>>> we again hit the problem of having a centralized server where we can
>>>>> look up the details of the corresponding number.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Haris Ibrahim K. V.
>>>>> http://sosaysharis.wordpress.com
>>>>> @harisibrahimkv
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>>>> Vijay kumar Bang
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