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

[Bibhas Ch Debnath]

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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