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scentedmoonbear · 2 years

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Turkish rugs: everything you need to know and how to bring it home

Turkey is all amazing, and along with the natural beauties, it also has a series of local products and exquisite handicrafts, such as the famous Turkish rugs, jewelry, and ceramics.

On our trip, we visited a rug factory/shop. I don't remember the store's name, but as it's local art, I believe it's not hard to find places like this to visit. The space was huge, massive like "don't leave me alone in these 53204 rooms and with zillions of colorful Turkish rugs online everywhere". Yes, the place was impressively big!

Upon arrival, we were met by the factory owner, a Turkish man (of course) who spoke excellent English, which made it much easier to understand the entire process of making Turkish rugs. He took us through the various stages of the process. We saw the women weaving the rugs, an incredible and challenging job, and we saw the extraction of the silk, coloring, and finishing.

Regarding the work of these women, do not think that they are slaves. At least in this region, they cannot spend more than 2 hours weaving the threads. Yes, it's a pretty heavy job. Some do things at home, others at the factory. In addition to being a naturally complicated job, as they spend a few hours a day on each rug, the process becomes time-consuming.

Another fascinating thing that we were taught is that what changes in the price of a Turkish rug is the number of knots per cm²: the more knots, the more intricate the piece, the more silk, and the more work.

I confess that I was never interested in these Turkish rugs. I thought it was ok, and I will never have one of those. But then my world fell apart, and I changed everything! I saw the most absurdly incredible rugs in the universe in this place. Unbelievably beautiful prints that changed shades depending on the angle you looked at, prints that cost fortunes, prints that were so crafted jewels. Pieces I thought were impossible to make with this hand weaving method. Jaw-dropping, completely.

The cool thing is that after all the explanations, we went to a private room, and they showed several rugs, explained each one of them and why this one was more amazing than that other one—all based on tea and coffee, treated with sponge cake. And really, it was the best. I didn't expect any of that on this tour. I was even a little wary of "touring a store = rough stuff they'll force me to buy."

Now let's talk about the serious stuff, what matters: how much it costs and how to bring it home.

HOW MUCH DOES A TURKISH CARPET COST?

It's not cheap, and it can't be. If it's very cheap like

Grand Bazaar

, be suspicious. It's certainly nothing like these here. You won't find anything below 100 euros, this being the most "cheap," that is, with the most straightforward design and small size. The price varies up to 80 thousand euros. Yeah, there's something for every pocket.

What I found interesting is that all values are given in Turkish lira, euros, and dollars, so you choose what is best for you, if you have money for any of these, if you want to pay in 3 currencies and mix it all up… you can do anything. It's time for real math because you'll have to do the conversions to see what's best at that moment.

The payments are in cash or card. Also, be prepared to negotiate, but don't force the bar. They get offended, especially here with a luxury product. If it's 100 euros, don't even waste your time offering 20, it won't happen. But healthy trading is super plausible.

HOW DO I BRING A TURKISH CARPET HOME?

Ahhh, here we have three options, and the company helps you in all of them. After all, the important thing is that you leave with a rug under your arm, hehe. Oh, and look, it's no use telling me that "I'm not even going to buy it, I don't have a place to put it/I don't have money" or any other excuse, because when I get there, my friends, I want to take everything. Sell the house and take a rug like that. So it's good to go prepared with money and space in your suitcase, ok?

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kevlarii · 4 years

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from a foreigner, thoughts on current italian armed forces?

Huh that’s a big one, especially because of the geopolitics of Italy. The geopolitical situation of Italy is extremely challenging, fragile, and complicated. I’ll try to be as concise as possible. Italy is surrounded by unfriendly or semi-hostile countries, with few exceptions, most of which covertly but actively encroach on Italian interests in the region and have been doing so for a while. All Italy’s major NATO allies (in primis France, Turkey, Germany, the USA, and the UK) lead geopolitical actions that directly or indirectly encroach on its interests. The 1990s political and judiciary instability was instrumental in ending the First Republic, which lead to the demise of an entire political class, and Italy has never recovered since. Amongst other consequences, a slow but creeping paralysis of geostrategic vision and capability has materialised. The first instance of this was the disintegration of Yugoslavia, a country with which Italy had enjoyed extremely favourable relations. This maneuver, led by Franco-German interests, largely destroyed Italian influence in the region (with the sole exception of Albania, and residual influence in Serbia/Montenegro). The resulting new states immediately entered German orbit, especially Slovenia and Croatia, with which relations have remained tense ever since and whose Italian minorities are rapidly being slavicised. The South Tyrol question has never been solved in the aftermath of a massive NS terrorist campaign in the 1950s and 1960s, and tensions routinely re-emerge with Austria. Another key area is Lybia, with which Italy had largely mended relations in the 2000s, and had started enjoying a special relationship amid the penetration of Italian oil companies in the former colony. This relation was destroyed in 2011 by the unilateral assault on Qaddafi by France (with NATO soon following suit), while at the same time Berlusconi was pressured by the EU Troika to resign. The subsequent technocratic government inaugurated a new decade of crippling political instability which is still ongoing. Italian interests in Lybia have been in great jeopardy ever since, with Italy finding itself supporting a weak internationally-recognised government in an uncomfortable partnership with Turkey, while France (and others) support Haftar’s coalition. In the rest of MENA there could be a lot more to say, but basically Italian influence has been waning (if not actively disestablished by other powers) everywhere, but most importantly in Lebanon, Egypt, and the Horn of Africa. (Pro-NATO source) That said, Italian doctrine still provides for a massing of most troops in the North-East and North-West of the country, with some other notable concentrations of forces around Rome, Naples, and in Sardinia. In the Cold War, up to 70% of all available forces were deployed on the Yugoslav border in the event of a Communist invasion; this has been somewhat revised but not completely. The Italian Army is rather well motorized and mechanised; it can count on about 200 Ariete tanks, 300 Centauro tank destroyers, over 800 IFVs, over 1300 APCs and other lightly armoured vehicles, and about 4000 infantry transports. About 10000 heavy hauling vehicles are about right, given the size of the country and its peculiar conformation to support logistics. 54 SPHs and 120 other artillery systems can provide adequate support. It is notable that the Italian Army has at its disposal an astonishing 150 armoured recovery and engineering vehicles, which should excellently support mechanised forces on the ground. (By comparison, France only has about 50) The Italian Navy operates 2 aircraft carriers (the only EU country to do so), 3 helicopter carriers , 4 Destroyers, 12 Frigates, 10 Minehunters, and 8 Submarines, with about 12 transport/support ships of notable size. This makes the Italian Navy probably the strongest naval power operating in the Mediterranean at any one time (considering that the French and Turkish navies operate in the Atlantic and Black Sea respectively, too, this does not mean that Italy has the most powerful navy amongst Mediterranean countries overall). The Italian Air Force operates about 150 fighter jets (Eurofighters and Panavia Tornados, mostly), which is adequate but not optimal given the size of Italian air space. Air defence can count on a towering 48 SAM systems, divided equally between SAMP/T and Skyguard Aspide systems - probably one of the most extensive Air Defence systems amongst the one ones I have ever written about. We surely can’t complain. All in all, Italy’s challenges are more geostrategic and geopolitical than military per se. This does not mean that the Italian Armed forces are immaculate; while they appear to be well-equipped and quite numerous (counting the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza, the Italian military could virtually count on over 300.000 men), they are plagued by inefficiency and corruption. Corruption and bribery schemes are uncovered all the time, while the military budget includes absurd amounts of money for “operationally unrelated expenses”, administrative expenses, and international missions. Mismanagement and disinterest for military expenses (if not outright corruption) are often documented, but political and judiciary chaos prevents adequate repression of these phenomena. A particularly tight esprit de corps, actively hampers investigations (even in the case of grave crimes, like drug trafficking from Afghanistan, inadequate protection from depleted uranium and nuclear waste disposal), while meritocracy is pretty much non-existant: all roles are redistributed semi-nepotistically amongst the officer cadre trained in the military’s academy - the only open positions/careers are technical roles, while general volunteers have to stick with grunt ranks forever (one of the reasons I never joined). Professionalization is generally low, and open entries on a contract-by-contract basis don’t exist. In addition to this, as Italian general industrial capacity shrinks year after year, so sinks the quality of military equipment produced (combined with corruption). Some vessels of the navy have been found with faulty water purification systems, the Ariete tank has always been okay but not exactly a breakthrough vehicle regarding the technology employed (and interest in the production of a 100% Italian replacement is dissipating); replacement submarines have been already ordered from Germany, thus ending a secular tradition of Italian submarine shipbuilding, while the disastrous acquisition of 60 F35s from the US seems to have stalled, for now. The inefficiency of the military policing and internal security systems, as well as secret service operations are an entirely related matter but it would be too verbose to elaborate about that here.

#Italian Army #Military analysis #Italy #Doctrine #War

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newstfionline · 7 years

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These Refugees Created Their Own Aid Agency Within Their Resettlement Camp

By Michael Thomas, Fast Company, April 5, 2017

One night in the spring of 2016, Housam Jackl and three of his friends sat around a fire in a refugee camp in the northern Greek town of Idomeni to discuss what could be done to improve the unfortunate situation they found themselves in. Over the course of the next year, they would go on to start a refugee-led NGO and become leaders within their camp.

Previously the men had worked together as volunteers to help refugees in Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. But they were now refugees themselves. In March 2016, when Jackl, and the other men arrived at the Greek-Macedonian border from Syria, they found fences and army guards. A populist backlash to the refugee influx in Europe caused nearly all of the borders in Europe to close that month. As a result, 50,000 refugees, including Jackl and the other three men, were stuck in Greece. “My friends and I sat around the fire and asked, ‘What can we do?’” Jackl said.

For most refugees, the answer to that question was, Nothing. Upon arriving in Greece, refugees can’t work; in the camps, meals are provided by the Greek military and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), but ingredients to cook and utensils are rarely available. They aren’t citizens, so engaging in the political process that defines their future is also not an option. As a result, most refugees are stripped of agency and have little to do but wait for borders to open, wars to end, or paperwork to make its way through the bureaucratic asylum system--a process that can take years.

This long, often undefined waiting period is frustrating to many who left behind busy professional lives. Prior to the wars that tore their countries apart, many refugees were business owners, doctors, lawyers, taxi drivers, and engineers. They were productive and had control over their lives. As someone who trained as a psychologist before the war, Jackl understood the toll that the asylum process would have on people in the camps. Together with his friends, he decided to try to solve the problem.

“In the refugee camps, we have two things: people and time,” Jackl explained. He and his friends decided that they would organize people to improve the camp. The idea was to solve two problems at once: Give refugees purpose, and make life in the camp better for everyone.

It began with repurposing shipping material. The men noticed that every day, dozens of shipments of food, medicine, and other aid came to their camp. But once the supplies were unloaded, aid workers would throw the pallets away. Meanwhile, people were sleeping in tents that would flood when it rained. So Jackl led an effort to break the pallets down and use the wood to create platforms on which the tents could sit.

Shortly afterwards, they used scrap wood and torn pieces of fabric to build a school, and eventually found a refugee who was a teacher to lead classes. The philosophy was simple and powerful: Use resources that would otherwise go to waste to improve life in their camp. As word spread of their work on social media, Jackl began to receive offers from people who wanted to donate money to his then unofficial cause. “All these people began asking me ‘What can I do? Can I give you money?’ And I’d tell them, ‘Give me materials,’” he said.

“People think that refugees are weak. But they survived war, smugglers, and the camps,” Jackl explains. His mission is to change the refugee image from one of weakness to one of resilience and strength. Core to that is the idea that refugees can help one another instead of relying on aid workers and NGOs, a philosophy that he adopted from an NGO called Jafra that he worked for in Syria.

Jafra Foundation was founded in 2002 by a group of Syrians that wanted to help the 110,000 Palestinians then living in an unofficial camp outside of Damascus called Yarmouk Camp. In 2012, it relaunched with the goal of helping refugees throughout the Middle East who were fleeing conflict in Syria. When the war began, Jackl was providing psychological support to Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk on behalf of Jafra. That same year, Assad’s regime surrounded the camp and put it under siege. They cut off the electricity, water, and food supply routes, trapping tens of thousands of civilians inside the city’s walls. To make matters worse, ISIS was one of the rebel groups trapped inside.

One day in fall 2014, Jackl and his sister heard commotion outside their apartment. Under the sharia law that ISIS was enforcing, it was illegal for a woman to live with any man except her husband; Jackl and his sister lived with two male roommates. They knew immediately that the extremist group had come to punish them. As soon as they recognized the threat, Jackl and his sister ran to the roof. The militants followed. Then in what Jackl describes as “a scene out of Hollywood,” a rooftop chase began. With the regime’s snipers surrounding them on all sides and a group of extremists on their tail, Jackl and his sister jumped from roof to roof. His sister was shot in the leg before they made it to a safe house.

The next day Jackl decided that it was time for him to leave Syria. At the time there was a standing offer from Assad’s regime: For any Free Syrian Army (FSA) soldiers that surrendered, they would send in food for civilians. Jackl wasn’t an FSA rebel, but he needed to get out of Yarmouk. He bought a weapon from a rebel, and just before sunset, he walked out of the city waving a white flag. As he walked from the outskirts to the siege’s line, he looked back at his hometown. “It was the first time I’d seen the city from the outside for over a year. I saw the collapsed buildings,” he said. Shortly after surrendering, he was let go; the regime wanted him to send word back that it was safe for others to follow suit, and shortly after his sister escaped in the same way. A couple days later, he crossed the Syria-Lebanon border and began his new life as a war refugee.

After providing psychological therapy to refugees for two years in Lebanon, Jackl decided to make the journey to Europe where he could apply for asylum. “After four years of helping refugees, I decided to help myself,” he said. His original plan was to travel alone. He would take the Balkan route up through Macedonia, Serbia, and Austria toward northern Europe where he wanted to study law. But fate put a wrinkle in his plan. Along the way, he became the unofficial captain of a raft and a leader to some 45 refugees.

In Idiza, the coastal Turkish city where many refugees board rafts bound for Greek islands, a smuggler pulled Jackl aside. “He pointed to a few lights on the horizon and said, Go there,” Jackl said. It was up to him to guide the ship toward Europe. Evidently the $1,000 that he and the other refugees had each paid the smuggler didn’t include a captain.

When they reached the Greek island of Lesbos, he translated for families, explained asylum processes to young men, and eventually led a group toward the Macedonian border. Along the way he checked Facebook and WhatsApp groups that refugees use to find optimal migrant routes, housing, and even sea conditions. That week, the group chats were flooded with posts from refugees informing others that the Greek-Macedonian border had closed. When the group arrived in the border city of Idomeni, they confirmed the rumors.

It was near the border that Jackl and his friends began building infrastructure and finding ways to improve life in the camps. In April 2016, he and his three friends decided to start a Greek division of Jafra, the organization they had worked for in Syria. Each week, refugees would see the work they were doing and offer to help out. For many, volunteering was a good way to regain purpose in their lives.

Over the last year, the organization has grown to roughly 50 volunteers. Despite their efforts, conditions in the Idomeni camp deteriorated and many families moved into other camps. Jackl and the other volunteers with Jafra moved too last summer, taking their efforts to a camp in the Greek town of Lagkadikia. There, with the support of UNHCR they have assisted the 200 families and their children with practical things like waste management and distributions of relief items to bigger issues like setting up a school and recreational spaces in the camp and offering psychosocial support for children.

In the fall, as many of the families moved to Athens to complete their resettlement applications, The Jafra team moved with them. They established many similar services there that they had in the other camps. But there Jackl and his group of volunteers are also opening a shelter for single women and children (the most vulnerable in a camp).

In his makeshift office on the bottom floor of the shelter, Jackl explained its purpose. “In the camps, you have one protection-services volunteer and 100 women. The UNHCR official sits in his office all day filing reports. There’s so much bureaucracy.” The goal of the shelter is to bypass the bureaucracy and provide shelter to women who don’t feel safe in the camps.

To bypass that bureaucracy and create the shelter Jackl and his team at Jafra pooled together a couple thousand dollars from friends living abroad and NGOs, and rented an apartment that could act as a safe house. He gave me a tour of the three-story apartment. In one of the rooms, there were boxes of what appeared at first glance to be junk. But when he showed me the contents inside, I saw canned food, clothing, bedding, and cleaning supplies; they had found the boxes in a donation center a couple miles away.

In one room, we found a 17-year-old-refugee named Bashar assembling an old bed frame. A year ago, after his brother was killed by a bomb in Yarmouk, he left his family in Syria for Europe where his aunt lives; in Idomeni, he met Jackl and soon after began to volunteer. I heard similar stories from everyone that I met.

On the second day of my visit, Jackl had to postpone our meeting for what has become an almost daily occurrence. That morning, he learned about a box of supplies that an NGO was giving away. He scrambled to board a bus and retrieve the box. Everything that he showed me in the shelter--all of the beds, blankets, tables, chairs, and miscellaneous items required to house women and children--had been gathered in much the same way. When they arrive, someone crosses the item off a wish list in their office.

Jafra will become the first refugee-led NGO to manage an official camp later this year. They will go from being unofficial helpers to recognized leaders with authority and a budget given to them by the UNHCR. For now, they still operate in the grassroots way that they were formed.

As for Jackl, his on the ground leadership of the organization that he created is temporary. He has passed three interviews and a security check in the process of being granted asylum in France. He insists that the organization will continue to operate after he leaves, and plans to remain involved remotely from France. But for now, all the volunteers continue to turn to the psychologist to lead them.

#refugee-led NGO #refugees #Housam Jackl #refugee camps

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signshoperonline · 7 years

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ISE 2017: Final Thoughts And Observations On The Biggest Pro AV Going

The final numbers suggest the 2017 edition of Integrated Systems Europe was a big success, with record crowds and exhibitors.

Now back at World HQ (aka spare bedroom), and mostly sorted on my sleep cycles, here are some final thoughts about the biggest pro AV show on the planet.

First, I love, love, love Amsterdam, but if it has to be in February, I am OK if it moves to Barcelona or somewhere well south of the Zuiderzee. It was cold, and all those beautiful canals just made it feel colder. And this is from a Canadian who knows cold.

The show has to do something about wayfinding in the Amsterdam RAI, which has 14 or so exhibit halls all joined by a weird, thatched tangle of walkways and escalators, enclosed bridges and tunnels. There IS lots of signage for wayfinding, but I spent way too much time waiting for people to find their way to me, or giving up and telling them to find some sort of a landmark so I could try to come to them. Hours in total wasted, and a couple of meetings never happened.

Next year I hire a guy to guide me around the insane maze of the Amsterdam RAI. I'm good with directions, but this place … #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/IrosQIEni5

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 8, 2017

I don’t think ISE has an app, but an indoor navigation app linked to beacons – to give people turn by turn directions – would be a great start (though free WiFi is only available in one long hallway).

In the broad context of the digital signage industry, this is pretty much a must-do show if your company operates in Europe and/or the Middle East. Whether a company shows or just sends people to connect with clients and network, it’s a target-rich, efficient environment.

I didn’t talk to that many vendors about the show’s ROI, but my small sample was all very positive about the leads they generated or connections made from walking and talking.

The show is primarily hived in Hall 8, towards a back corner of the RAI complex. But the major display companies were sprinkled around numerous halls, usually at the front so they could dominate the setting and carve out the floor space they needed. Of those companies, I’d say LG again had the most impressive booth – not only because of the OLEDs and huge video walls, but also because a lot of the content was purpose-designed and very good.

.@LGCommDisplays used great creative and motorized pivot mounts to change up product announced and shown last year. Is well done. #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/JRjny5Ih2s

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 8, 2017

I also thought NEC did a nice job, though it was somewhat smaller. Samsung has its own small building at one corner of the complex – and it would be possible to miss them – except it’s Samsung, so people would look. They were minimalist, like last year, but they do a good job (more so than others, arguably) of putting different technologies in context.

Samsung has an interesting wrinkle on using gesture for interactive windows. Sensor focuses on specific "touch" labels on window #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/50qYSp8pIk

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 7, 2017

Philips is a much bigger player in Europe than in North America, and I was impressed by what the company is up to with its pro displays and partnerships, and the people I spoke with knew their stuff. In short, they seem to really have their act together.

In one of the halls – 10, maybe – there was a MASSIVE booth for Finlux, a brand completely foreign to me. It’s the display brand of a huge Turkish electronics company called Vestel, which is very active in Europe with both TVs and commercial displays. They make 1 in 5 of the TVs sold in Europe, including ones that have Japanese brand names on them. The company sees signage as a growth market, and had a full range of indoor displays (plus an outdoor unit).

Never heard of @FinluxDirect but they one big -assed, display-filled booth at #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/r247J3D3j2

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 7, 2017

Finlux also has System on Chip displays in multiple sizes, adding to the lengthening list of display manufacturers who have introduced smarts inside their screens. I discovered in walking through Toshiba’s booth that it also now has SoC displays, and CMS partners like RED-V.

Have discovered Toshiba also has an embedded SoC smart display and CMS vendor/partners. Runs Linux. #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/EbCnEaRra8

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 9, 2017

LG went very big on OLEDs in its booth, but was notably absent there and pretty much anywhere else was transparent OLED. Samsung didn��t have them (like they did last year). Nor did Planar (or I just flat missed them). The only transparent OLEDs I saw were in Panasonic’s booth, and I was told they were Samsung product.

Did you know @panasonic was doing commercial OLEDs? Me neither. Skinny 2 siders & transparent ones. #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/L5E7Vmtt1t

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 8, 2017

As expected, direct view LED was everywhere – with scores of vendors of all sizes, locales and pedigrees. I saw pixel pitch as tight as 0.7mm on R&D samples, but with a human hair’s width being about 1mm, I’m not sure what’s gained by getting the gaps microscopically tighter.

#ISE2017 was LED Land. Expect the same at #InfoComm17 http://pic.twitter.com/FjNkK87aKg

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 10, 2017

A lot of the big LED displays looked spectacular, but a good chunk of the vendors had stuff that would only get bought based on lower prices and long distance viewing.

One trend I saw was the numbers of Chinese manufacturers selling curtain mesh displays with fairly tight pitches. There were a few at ISE a year ago, but a bunch in2017. In the right set-up, some of them would look pretty good as window displays and room dividers.

I was amazed, again, by the numbers of CMS companies out there. I must have seen at least 40 unfamiliar companies showing in partner booths or on their own. Sweden and Norway seem to have a lopsided number given the populations of those countries, but I also met several from Spain and Italy.

I saw numerous software demos, and must say while they all look pretty and intuitive, as I have written in the past (and told numerous vendors when they asked my opinion), easy, simple and friendly are great attributes, but to stand out from the crowd a vendor needs to have more to say, or a focus. Ideally both.

Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel and I had a long chat for an upcoming podcast, and he says he has a business intelligence team that tracks the market and has a current database of 3,200 CMS companies globally.

3,200???

One positive in that is how at least some of those companies either knew they needed a focus or fell into it. I spoke with companies that were doing well because they were leading with capabilities in areas such as tourism, airport operations or retail ERP system integrations. They weren’t just saying, “We can make digital signage happen. Please use our software for whatever need you can think up.”

I also noted a LOT of companies now have meeting room sign options. My micro-site MeetingRoomSigns.biz has 55+ companies listed, but coming out of this week, that number will swell. There also, now, numerous companies like ProDVX and Philips that have purpose-designed 10-inch signs for that use-case.

Hear the latest @sixteennine #ISE2017 edition podcast about our #workspace technology https://t.co/Ala9w6ExD0 #tech http://pic.twitter.com/toX0GdGFQk

— Condeco UK (@CondecoUK) February 8, 2017

I stuck my head in Digital Signage Summit run by the German firm invidis. It was a full house and the range of speakers was quite good. It was only a half-day event – which means attendees could also get some quality time on the show floor. The event is done in a partnership with ISE. Florian Rotberg of invidis kindly let me use their office space inside the convention as podcast central – and I have roughly 10 interviews banked from last week, which will appear in the coming weeks.

Florian Rotberg kicking off Digital Signage Summit at #ISE2017 http://pic.twitter.com/S4nitXWCc8

— 16:9 (@sixteennine) February 8, 2017

Interviewed companies included STRATACACHE, Navori, BroadSign, ONELAN, Maler DSO, SmartSign, SpinetiX, Quividi and Intel.

I did not pick up a raging head cold like last year, at least not yet. Two long flights and being around 73,000 people makes me feel like a marked man for that, so we’ll see.

All things considered, ISE was, and is, a great investment of time and money (I go entirely on my own nickel). If you are in digital signage, even if you don’t see your company being active in Europe, it’s worth at least one visit to walk the show and get out of whatever bubble you may operate inside.

I’m already researching my AirBnB place for next year. The show is Feb. 6-9 next year – same place, same beautiful city. Hopefully a bit warmer.

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