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From Open Source Bridge attendee wiki 2010

• Keynotes: Usually okay for 9am, no earlier
• Transcribing: hire stenographer? (perfect notes, more accessible, searchable)

• Liked long sessions
• Too many long sessions
• Flip long sessions to be in the afternoons some times.
• Hardware talks? Approved
• FPGA
• No session on how to replace facebook (yes there was)
• If your session will be noisy, please flag that early
• Will there be live demos (new check box)
• Django talk got canceled :(
• Schedule talks with live demos to be after lunch
• Make it an option for people to request cabled internet for live demos
• More panels and group discussions
• Wired mic cables were too short
• Presenters need to be reminded of proper mic placement
• Sound issues sometimes took a while to be resolved
• Schedules - hard to find long descriptions
• Registration - take photo of each attendee, attendee annotates, goes up on a wall (could be twitter wall)
• Speaker names on paper schedules
• Paper schedules were awesome!
• Badges need to show names on both sides; add twitter handle; make clear in registration what will be on the badges
• Useful to have mobile web version of schedule
• More assistance in how to meet people, networking

• Curtains: mixed result, generally positive
• Splash back of sound against room
• As a speaker it was hardly disruptive, but for participants it was distracting
• Aisle down middle of seat set up.

• Number of concurrent sessions: generally perfect/happy
• Good length of sessions, great length of breaks
• Good length of lunches

• Hacker lounge at this location = awesome
• What if we shut it down at 2am? No particular interest.

• Would you pay an additional fee if we included a party at the venue? Generally yes.

• Secure storage for hardware, luggage would be nice.
• choir sessions and yoga session both = awesome

• printer and microwave

• structured signage at weddings
• sandwich board or whatever to help direct people to the correct building.
• unconference: how can this be added for mobile apps? schedule software for barcamp?
• extend museum pass etc to a non-conference day
• more whiteboards (in session rooms and the hacker lounge)

• snack times - morning tea rather than afternoon tea
• cookies good, one prefers mezza plate
• some interest in donuts, but not big cheers
• 50/50 split on preferring morning tea or afternoon tea if only one.
• fundraising: encourage businesses to get involved early
• coffee++ and the water all over the place++
• tea was great, hot chocolate please
• more power outlets in the lounge (or don't hide them under the tables)
• more tables instead of keynote seating?
• portland theater style seating (classroom style)
• power in keynote seating area, might have made it more used
• power was exceptional
• wireless was awesome (after a few day one glitches)
• more wireless security?

• travel agency - would prefer discount code for hotel instead
• please introduce organising committee at start of conference
• parties: speaker party was great!
• start-up crawl = awesome
• bofs a little late in the day
• open track for bofs? schedule at dinner time? schedule at lunch?
• redundancy between bofs and unconference (one constant unconference track?)
• need suggestions of good food places nearby venue for dinner options
• how could we make the wiki better? (create users)
• replace link to "Wiki", integrate that into the main site a bit better
• great idea to have a wiki page for each session, but should ask speakers to remind attendees to be involved
• create a role of note taker for each room/session
• star rating systems for feedback for each talk
• hall way track less fun (perhaps a conversation pit, with couches or what?)
• where to meet to get together to go get food

• some wiki drop in or another, wagn?
• for those not going to beer and blog... last minute meet up some how
• scavenger hunt was an awesome idea
• speakers could use screenflow software to make it easier some how...
• It would be really useful to have a quick lightning talk or ignite-style roundup of the day's topics at the beginning to clarify each topic (at times the descriptions were somewhat misleading), and to quickly demonstrate the speaker's style
• more recycling bins so we don't generate so much trash! plastic hot cup tops, plastic cups, compostable tea bags, and paper, paper, paper!

• Integrate (anonymous?) session feedback into the system
• Two Hacker Lounges: one by day at the venue, one at night with alcohol
• The website should prominently link to the UStream and Etherpad sites for OSBridge
• Proper walls between talk rooms. +2
• T-shirts. For sale separately would be fine.
• Capture audio and video feeds for all talks and post on youtube/vimeo/whatever.
• Attendee profiles, sortable/searchable by tagged interests, skill-sets.