Typically a once to twice-a-year event for many conventions. These are extremely volunteer-led conventions, so a lot of financials just aren't there to support hundreds of dollars for a short term rental for an event weekend. We're out here for the love of the con(vention) pouring our own funds into things for the most part.
Some conventions can be only a couple hundred people (or less!) as fledgling conferences, so getting the costs per-attendee as cheap as possible out of the gates is important. I could see myself donating Zebra label printers into a convention to support the cause if they executed something like this.
One thing to add though: Have a "DR" (Didn't Realize) plan when you run out of your pre-printed card stock. You may find out your convention gets too popular and you run out of cards - you may need to consider having a backup available (such as printing and laminating color 'badges' to hand to your daypasses, for instance).
Meanwhile I guarantee sitting on a university campus I’m going to see a sea of these colours sitting on desks and tables by people putting in some serious work.
In this age of price hikes on components and hardware, this is Apple’s “price heard around the world” like they were on stage at E3 in 1995.[1]
Ironically they pulled it off with Sony’s worst price at an announcement… five hundred and ninety-nine US dollars.
I hold both an amateur license and a conventional ‘itinerant’ LMR license good nationwide.
The LMR license is more useful to me than my amateur license - I can just hand my friends my pile of cache radios and get yapping at an event. As a plus, we can run encryption and other fun things on the LMR license (within the bounds of our emissions) like APCO P25 (Project25) data transmissions.
I'm vaguely reminded of some of the third party disk encryption/preboot management utilities that exist in the Windows space that leverage similar technology. Authentication is done against an online source, and only then is the key sent back to the local machine to unlock the disk. The Bitlocker key is kept nowhere near the local TPM.
I've only seen it on some paranoid-level devices in industry (typically devices handling biometric identity verification services).
IIRC this one is a Linux image that boots up, unlocks the normal Bitlocker partition via whatever mechanism you need, then hands control back to the Windows bootloader to continue onwards.
Some conventions can be only a couple hundred people (or less!) as fledgling conferences, so getting the costs per-attendee as cheap as possible out of the gates is important. I could see myself donating Zebra label printers into a convention to support the cause if they executed something like this.
One thing to add though: Have a "DR" (Didn't Realize) plan when you run out of your pre-printed card stock. You may find out your convention gets too popular and you run out of cards - you may need to consider having a backup available (such as printing and laminating color 'badges' to hand to your daypasses, for instance).
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