eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (06/08/89)
I have worked on quite a number of conferences and workshops. Most recently Supercomputing'88, but also Natl. ACM, Usenix, etc. The best badges I have seen are the ones done for Salishan High Speed Computing meetings. Readable from ten feet, the nice thing is that the badge is not pinned on, it sits in a shirt pocket (requiring this, sure), but the "root" of the badge contains the program at a glance, very nice. You pull out, and fold to the current session. Other conferences use those plastic credit card like badges: NCC, ACM/SIGGRAPH, big conferences. Oh, the SIGGRAPH badges are given a loop and them became a luggage tag. The point of speakers and lectures was well taken. Usenix used to take the "speaker hook:" a red, yellow and green timing light and make it visible to all: first green, then yellow (one minute), then red (over time), then red blinking (5 minutes over). Work in progress sessions are also useful. The most fun I've seen has been at ACM/SIGMETRICS. Absolutely fixed time, everybody runs around, great fun. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Live free or die.