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Satisfaction: 1
Liked_Best: Great to meet up with people.
Short_Talk: Like
Short_Talk_Length: 7
Short_Talk_Format: Horizontal
Parallel: Fewer
Number_Of_Parallel: 5
Format: 2+3
Later_Sessions: Yes
Exhibit_Hall_Hours: Have them open from lunchtime until 6pm. That way, they\'re there for the majority of the slack time period (especially if short talks are there, which some people may opt out of). Mornings will tend to be taken up with talks.
OS_Pavillion: Yes
Keynotes: No_change
Keynote_Speakers: Elliotte Rusty Harold, Bill Venners, Bruce Eckel
Improve_Next_Year: Have one area where coffee is served throughout the conference, not just at certain times. I was dying for a coffee several times on the Tuesday, but there was no coffee to be seen. This doesn\'t mean the other snack parts need to be there all the time; those were good for the breakfasts etc. but having somewhere (e.g. the registration hall) where there\'s always coffee available would have been a good thing.

Power supplies outside of theatres was sometimes problematic.

More coding/hacking sessions would have been fun (like Ward\'s BoF).

Have a shorter break between the main topics and the BoFs. Finishing at 5pm and then not having anything to do until 8pm was pretty tiring, especially when the evening went on until 11pm. Also, publicise the BoFs on an internal wiki (perhaps set up a kiosk machine for people without wireless laptops).

The \'Ask me about\' was a good idea, but no-one asked me anything. Maybe it was the ties ... but perhaps in advance next year, ask conference attenders some of their favourites and give the stickers out at the beginning of the conference.

The lunch tables were great; but a table layout would have been beneficial. There were probably topics I didn\'t attend that I would have done because I wasn\'t going to walk all around the hall looking at the table names :-)

Some of the information - table layouts, room layouts etc. - could be put up on the \'web the day before (or even the same day) rather than needing it printed out in advance.

Did anyone mention printing availability? Some pepople may have liked that from the tutorial point of view.

Having a schedule with all parallel activities (demos + talks) one one page (web/printed) would have been very useful :-)

Organising the short talks into 8-min presentations in 10-min blocks could be a good way to go, and then do 4 of them. It might be better to organise the short talks by type rather than randomly; e.g. have all the BIRT and graphics in one room, all the RCP stuff in another room, and another for open-source stuff etc. That might be a good way to minimise the round trips between rooms.

Hopefully that\'s useful :-)
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