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Badges will be printed in advance and laminated. Akl will work on the layout. Austin and notafish will provide the database. There will be a possibility of printing and laminating badges on site.

While making a first draft I came to the conclusion that four different colors should be enough:

Organisation, Programme - lead
Staff - helpers
Speaker, Press, Guest - VIPs
Visitor - the crowd who pays the bill ;-)

-- Akl 20:10, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Classess of badge

General organisation

Elian
Akl
Delphine
Austin
JeLuf
Sj

Programme Organisation

Angela
Erik
Jakob
Patrick

Staff

All people helping

Press

For journalists

Speaker

For speakers, obviously

Guest

For sponsors etc.

Visitor (or Wikimaniac)

Everybody else.

Design

The day passes will be worked out on the badge with a system of darkened squares, 1 per day, so that we know who should be here and who should not.

For day pass, different day, different colour?

No, we have four big dots on the badges (each for one day) that we can strike through. See my draft -- Akl 20:10, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I really like the draft. Do you have better sources for the sponsors' logos, though? JamesF 19:27, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The "shaded bubbles" system is great, but unnecessary for all but the gray badges. The "red people," go without saying; all staff are registered for the full week; VIPs aren't paying by definition. Austin 21:50, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

So, we have badges as follows:

Organisation - Members of the boards of Wikimedia Foundation (and Wikimedia De, Wikimedia Fr, etc?) - Red, no dots

Staff - People who have organised the conference - Dark blue, no dots

Staff - People who help keep the conference running - ~~Dark blue~~ ?Light blue?, no dots

Speaker - Umm... - Green, no dots

Press - Officially-sanctioned members of the press - ~~Green~~ ?Yellow?, no dots

Guest - VIP of some other kind - ~~Green~~ ?Magenta?, no dots

Visitor - Normal attendee - Grey, dots

Wouldn't it also make sense to include people's online name? It's OK for me, for example, but people whose online names are significantly different to their display name will be confusing, no?

Also, perhaps two versions of the visitor tag, if that's the only one that going to be with dots - one with them, one without?

JamesF 13:46, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Don't propose such things around akl. He'll bite.

A "nickname/username" field has been part of registration since the beginning, but because of some poor wording on the form ("Nickname or Wikimedia project username to appear on badge (optional)") people were misunderstanding the point of the field and duplicating their real names, sometimes even adding their nicknames on top of those. Last week I normalized the current database and reworded the legend ("Nickname/username to appear on badge, alongside your full name") on the English form, which has apparently alleviated most confusion, but a final confirmation e-mail (when registration ends) will ask registrants to verify their information as a final step. Austin 17:02, 11 May 2005 (UTC)