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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by __--__ on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:46PM (#5457874)
This is a game developer conference, not a game programming conference. there are a dozen non-technical jobs between "spokesperson" and "developer." Game designer, level designer, UI artist, CGI artist, Producer, QA - these are just a few jobs that do not qualify as technical positions.

I suppose you could have everybody wear a badge that lists their job title, except not everybody is there representing a company. Large buckets, then? Artists, engineers, management, product, technical other, non-technical other?

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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by pacaro on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:40PM (#5458359)
Or just have a Geek Code[1] block on the badge...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code

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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by NickNameNick on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:26PM (#5458538)
Do people still use that? I only ever saw it on userfriendly profiles, and userfriendly has been limping along, very nearly dead for years now.
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Re:Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort... by stcredzero on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:30PM (#5458551)
This is a meh protocol. It's not cleanly extensible and carries a lot of legacy.
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