Gulaschprogrammiernacht 20 · Germany · 2022

GPN20 Laminated Identity Badge

On-site printed and laminated attendee badge

A source-backed non-electronic GPN20 attendee-badge record anchored by the Entropia wiki workflow for printing and laminating badges at the infodesk.

GPN Gulaschprogrammiernacht Germany Identity Badge Non-electronic Laminated Infodesk Queue

EventGulaschprogrammiernacht 20

SeriesGulaschprogrammiernacht

LocationZKM and HfG, Karlsruhe

CountryGermany

People

Attribution Gap

No public individual author, designer, firmware, or team credits have been seeded for this badge yet. Add named credits only when a primary badge-team page, repository, talk, or other source identifies the people or team behind the work.

Why It Mattered

It keeps the GPN lineage honest: not every important hacker-event badge is a PCB. GPN20 documents the practical social infrastructure of check-in, lanyards, printed labels, and queue pressure around badge issuing.

Hardware

The public GPN20 sources support a printed/laminated badge or pass workflow rather than an electronic badge. The record therefore makes no PCB, microcontroller, radio, firmware, or app-store claim.

Software & Apps

No badge firmware is source-backed for this record. The documented workflow is operational: badge printing, laminating, distribution, and ticket/troll/check-in coordination.

Lore

A GPN20 volunteer page tells helpers that badges are issued by laminating a badge sheet and attaching it to a lanyard, while attendee feedback complains about extremely long queues for issuing badges.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

camp operations feedback historical

Badge-issue queue feedback

The feedback page records attendee frustration that badge issuing queues were extremely long, turning a simple identity object into a visible camp-operations issue.

Compatibility: GPN20 infodesk/check-in

Source

identity-badge production workflow historical

Laminating and lanyard workflow

The volunteer page documents taking a badge sheet from the printer, laminating it, cutting it, making a hole, and attaching it to a lanyard before issuing it to an attendee.

Compatibility: GPN20 on-site badge issuing

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

badge issuing queue moderate

Public GPN20 feedback complains that queues for issuing badges were very long.

Even non-electronic badges can affect camp operations when printing, laminating, and handout throughput becomes a bottleneck.

Confidence: public feedback
Status: historical
Timeframe: during event
Source note: Entropia GPN20 feedback page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No local GPN20 identity-badge image is published because the public wiki sources document the printed-and-laminated workflow but no reusable original artifact photo or official raster render has been paired with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The record stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying wiki media, attendee photos, screenshots, placeholder art, or generated approximations.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and Entropia GPN20 event, volunteer, Fahrplan, and feedback pages.

non-electronic artifact boundary note