On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Yoav Nir wrote: > A poster session sounds cool, but it works well when the presenters are > companies, rather than individuals. To get a good A0 poster, you need > access to printing services (which are not cheap, but doable) and > graphic design talent, which is neither cheap nor common in IETF > attendees. To get such a poster up, I would need either my company's > sponsorship, or else use my own talents in graphic design: Hmm, #12FF12. > Now there's a nice shade of green for a background. As for fonts, let's > go with Mistral, because http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts. My just completed her MS in Nutrition and Food Science. As part of her program she had to produce two posters. It turns out to be quite easy to use PowerPoint to create poster sized slides ... in one case a single very large slide and in the other, 3 slides, one per tri-fold panel. I forget what FedEx Office (aka Kinko's) would have charged, and our local large format print ship would have been less as the company I was working for allowed me to use their large format HP printer, but it was in the order of $200. Quite reasonable for someone to spend to put forth an idea they are passionate about with or without sponsorship. And as others have noted, printed pages fastened to a board is much cheaper. Seems like a few tables at one end of the break area could be setup if there are just a few such presentations at a meeting, or if this becomes popular, reserve a meeting room near the break area. Schedule a couple specific breaks/lunch times as Poster BOFs when the presenters would be there and include a list of topics, etc. in the meeting materials. Probably require an ID to backup the material. Dave Morris _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf