Lanyards or no lanyards?
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Point taken.
Now, I wonder, how important the "smile"-factor is compared to the "useful"-factor. Would you keep something around just because you think it's funny? Or does it have to be really useful? And would something really useful get away with not being fun at all?
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As for me I will keep something funny if it is not to big. But of course funny and useful are better than only useful and only funny :)
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I have a wish-list :)
- Nice and small USB desk lamp with Qt logo
- USB 2.0 (not 1.0!) hub beautified with Qt logo
- Qt mug
- Qt frisbee (although I made my own :D)
- Qt beanie
- Nice key holder with Qt logo
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i would like to echo the voices above speaking of the debugging duck - it is one of the quirkier things that i've had in a goodie bag, and it's also one which is spoken about. It's cute (see what i did there? ;) ), it is the sort of thing which makes you stop and go "...eh?" for a moment, and it is even useful. Not in the traditional sense of "Yay, toy!", but as an actual productivity aide. It is, after all, the objectification of a technique, rather than a thing in its own right. It is this sort of profoundness which shows someone thought about it, as opposed to someone just going to a store and saying "Yup, I'd like our logo on item number six" :)
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Hehe, looks like duck was really appreciated by all :) By me too, thanks for it :)
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The duck is awesome. I have a rubber chicken that I have used - to great success! - in fixing recalcitrant servers or uncovering obscure bugs over the years; it hung over my desk at my last two jobs.
Also, my wife collects rubber ducks - so the "Qt duck" (ha!) fits in perfectly.
I need to reboot now, but I am pondering this - the one note I will add is that the thumb drive is indeed immensely useful (at least to me, who doesn't manage to go buy myself hardware very often, and whose daughter lost all the small USB sticks I had).
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[quote author="Milot Shala" date="1290910598"]I have a wish-list :)
- USB 2.0 (not 1.0!) hub beautified with Qt logo
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While you're on that, why not USB 3.0? Futureproof and a bit more unique so it's guaranteed not to be chucked in the bin.
I don't like getting stuff I already have ten of. Something a bit unique that I sort of want but have never been bothered to get is always nice. They are usually cheap things anyway.
- USB 2.0 (not 1.0!) hub beautified with Qt logo
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Yes you are right! But I happen to have USB 1.0 hub which isn't that good, for that reason I said it should be at least 2.0. USB 3.0 would be perfect!
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I liked the schwagg at the San Francisco Developer Days this year. There wasn't a duck in my bag but the Trolls in the Tech Lab gave me one. I carry it to work every day now. I appreciate the insulated mug and the thumb drive with the SDKs and example code. At first, I didn't think much of the lanyard until I realized that I could hook the daily schedule cards to it. The little sling bag turned to be more useful than I expected. It had enough space for my thin laptop, the conference folder, and some snacks, so I left my big napsack in my room.
The ACM and IEEE conferences I've been to just gave the proceedings on CD-ROM and maybe a mug.
I might wear a Qt hoodie if I had one and it was either subtle or psychedelic.
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[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291429445"]A copy of my own magazine which will appear soon!
In fact, most smaller publishers who do nice magazines would LOVE to give one copy away for free.[/quote]
+1 from me