Hi, Just chipping in to leave a couple of additional notes.
As other have said before me, I also think the organization was very good. Things mentioned before: * Tables layout: kind of agree it was not great for following the talks but they were also making it easier to talk with other attendees. I have mixed feelings. * I agree more power strips would have been welcome. * The microphones were having some small problems but it was not too bad. Positive things also mentioned: * WiFi worked great. * 1 single big room and more time for hallway conversations was good. * Food, beverage, snacks, etc. were very good. * Google's facilities and staff were great: organization, catering and security people. I hope they pass this feedback to them ☺ Additionally: * In the "not so good" part; the details (timetable) of the Program were published very late (no more than 1 week before the conference). I would have liked to know way in advance at what hour in the morning the conference was starting. The same with regards to the "Social events". I only got to know that there was a "Pre- conference social event" the previous evening to the start of the conference after that had already happened, for example. Finally, I took the freedom to complete the Program page with the missing video links: https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2017/Program/ I hope my comments are helpful. Thanks again for a great conference. Br. On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 10:32 -0700, Miguel Angel Vico wrote: > Hi, > > In general, I think the organization was great. I agree having > everything happen in a single room was a good point. Here's some of my > personal feedback: > > * I didn't like the tables layout at all. I found it to be extremely > uncomfortable to have to look sideways in order to see the screens > and presenter. > > * There were a very few power strips, and not well distributed along > the tables. > > > Also, this is what I've been able to gather from some of my colleagues > here at NVIDIA:: > > * Some people watching the conference remotely complained about the > stream quality, and the recordings wouldn't include the presenter. > > In one of the hallway conversations, Martin mentioned in XDC2016 > they had a team of camera experts doing the job, and will try to > improve that part in future XDC's. > > * The microphone/audio situation wasn't great either. I don't know > how practical it is with something the size of XDC, but at Khronos > meetings, they usually set up microphones for the audience too, with > tap-on/tap-off switches, and a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 for > microphones:people. That makes Q&A a lot easier. Alternatively, > having a question queue rather than running mics around the room can > speed things up, but makes cross-talk harder. > > * The table/chair layout was really cumbersome. Beyond just the > orientation, some people had a lot of trouble getting in/out to use > the restroom, grab snacks, etc. > > > On a positive note: > > * More time for hallway conversations was in general a good thing. > Some of us got a ton of useful feedback talking to others. > > * The food was great, and having food on-site gave us even more time > for hallway-tracking. > > * Surprisingly, parking was not an issue. > > * Signage was good, and the security guards were polite/helpful. It > was easy to find the room and get our badges. > > * The wifi worked great in general, which is a rarity at conferences. > It was pretty spotty at XDC 2016. > > > Thank you. > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:49:10 -0700 > Manasi Navare<manasi.d.nav...@intel.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > XDC was a really great conference and loved the fact that it was > > in just one room which kept all the hallway conversations in that room > > resulting > > into more networking. > > But I agree with Andres that for the videos, it would be great to split the > > huge youtube video stream per presentation and have seperate links for each > > talk somewhere on the XDC page. > > > > Regards > > Manasi > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Andres Rodriguez wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > A small piece of feedback from those of us watching remotely. It would be > > > nice to have a simple to access index for the long livestream videos. > > > > > > I think the XDC 2017 wiki page would be a good place for this > > > information. A > > > brief example: > > > > > > Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Link with timestamp > > > -------------------|----------------|--------------------- > > > ... | ... | youtu.be/video-id?t=XhYmZs > > > > > > Or alternatively, a list of hyperlinks with the presentation title as text > > > that point to the correct timestamp in the video would also be sufficient. > > > > > > Really enjoyed the talks, and would like them to be slightly easier to > > > access and share with others. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Andres > > > > > > > > > On 2017-09-26 12:57 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > First again big thanks to Stéphane and Jennifer for organizing a great > > > > XDC. > > > > > > > > Like last year we'd like to hear feedback on how this year's XDC went, > > > > both the good (and what you'd like to see more of) and the not so > > > > good. Talk selection, organization, location, scheduling of talks, > > > > anything really. > > > > > > > > Here's a few things we took into account from Helsinki and tried to > > > > apply: > > > > - More breaks for more hallway track. > > > > - Try to schedule the hot topics on the first day (did we pick the > > > > right ones) for better hallway track. > > > > - More lightning talk time to give all the late/rejected submissions > > > > some place to give a quick showcase. > > > > > > > > Things that didn't work out perfectly this year and that we'll try to > > > > get better at next year: > > > > - Lots of people missed the submission deadline and their talks were > > > > rejected only because of that. We'll do better PR by sending out a > > > > pile of reminders. > > > > - Comparitively few people asked for travel assistance. No idea > > > > whether this was a year with more budget around, or whether this isn't > > > > all that well know and we need to make more PR in maybe the call for > > > > papers about it. > > > > > > > > But that's just the stuff we've gathered already, we'd like to hear > > > > more feedback. Just reply to this mail or send a mail to > > > > bo...@foundation.x.org if you don't want the entire world to read it. > > > > And if you want to send at pseudonymous feedback, drop a pastebin onto > > > > the #xf-bod channel on the OFTC irc server. > > > > > > > > Thanks, Daniel > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dri-devel mailing list > > > dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wayland-devel mailing list > > wayland-de...@lists.freedesktop.org > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > > -- Br, Andres _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
