Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Great talks at EclipseCon Europe

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Nov 2014, at 19:01, Anne Jacko wrote:

> Hi Max et al,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I agree, it would be great if NA venues used 
> the same pricing as the German venue for the food so we could have 
> beverages all day. But it's not affordable in NA (or in France). :-(

Yeah, I guess serving all drinks in individual cans vs just big bottles 
as done in Ludwigsburg increases the price significantly ;)

> In addition to a printed program handout and the monitors, we had two 
> sets of printed big daily schedule signs on pin boards, one set 
> upstairs and one set downstairs. Were these pin boards not located 
> where you could find them easily, or am I somehow not understanding 
> what additional schedule information would be useful on site?

So maybe this is specific for Ludwigsburg but it always takes me until 
like the 2nd or 3rd day before my mind has a map between room name and 
which section of the venue I had to be in to find it, i.e. upper floor, 
left side vs lower floor, right side etc. ...and since I simply do not 
want nor remember to actually run around with a paper program (sorry, I 
like carrying nothing besides my laptop) I always end up scouring for 
the map of the venue to see where I have to be....or simply just run 
between the various parts of the venue until I find it.

And at eclipsecon ludwigsburg this year I simply could not find this map 
easily anywhere except on the monitors.

Especially downstairs I just saw the BOF board and notice board. But no 
map.

Also it would be great if the maps posted actually had a sticker or 
something saying "You are *here*".

I haven't been at the location EC US 2015 will be but I had similar 
issues when in Santa Clara ...I think about year 5 I could remember the 
rooms and the floor mapping ;)

/max


> Anne Jacko
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> On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:03 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen 
> <max.andersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 3 Nov 2014, at 20:28, Ian Skerrett wrote:
> >
> > > I know a number of PC members were are EclipseCon Europe. I am 
> > > curious what
> > > you liked and disliked about EclipseCon Europe so we can learn for 
> > > our
> > > EclipseCon NA planning.
> >
> > Maybe I'm just unlucky but I thoroughly enjoyed having access to 
> > refreshments outside
> > the normal breaks. Usually in US all refreshments are removed or just 
> > runs out before
> > I get to them ;)
> >
> > With respect to talks - I didn't get to see that many but if there 
> > was one thing I missed
> > was a plan overview to remember where things were at. The monitors 
> > showed it but you had to
> > wait for cycling through.
> >
> > If each poster would on its back have a plan overview my life would 
> > have been much easier the first two days ;)
> >
> > /max
> >
> > > Also, please make sure you invite any speakers at ECE that gave a 
> > > great
> > > talk. We certainly don't want a lot of repeat talks but having some 
> > > of the
> > > best from ECE at EclipseCon NA is always a good idea.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ian Skerrett
> > >
> > > VP Marketing
> > >
> > > Eclipse Foundation
> > >
> > > @ianskerrett
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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