In part of a discussion about authorship and ownership of projects, Keira Lucas mentioned this anecdote:
Coincidentally enough, this was one day after I heard a story about a presenter who had a poster that was stolen during the conference.
I was gobsmacked. Stealing a poster? Why? I mean, a conference poster isn’t exactly a Monet.
And the morals of the story are:
Conference organizers should have some sort of security plan in case people behave badly.
Conference organizers should have some plan to help people recover from disasters. This can be as simple as asking if there is a large format printer at the conference site or nearby.
Third, conference presenters should have a digital version of their poster that is accessible to them. This might be on a flash drive, on a tablet, laptop, emailing a copy to themselves, a cloud storage service like OneDrive or Dropbox, and many other ideas.
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I had a previous disgruntled employee crumble up one of my biologist’s poster at a conference because he felt entitled to the data.
Coincidentally enough, this was one day after I heard a story about a presenter who had a poster that was stolen during the conference.
I was gobsmacked. Stealing a poster? Why? I mean, a conference poster isn’t exactly a Monet.
And the morals of the story are:
Conference organizers should have some sort of security plan in case people behave badly.
Conference organizers should have some plan to help people recover from disasters. This can be as simple as asking if there is a large format printer at the conference site or nearby.
Third, conference presenters should have a digital version of their poster that is accessible to them. This might be on a flash drive, on a tablet, laptop, emailing a copy to themselves, a cloud storage service like OneDrive or Dropbox, and many other ideas.
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