2009/9/15 Tony Whitmore <t...@tonywhitmore.co.uk>: > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:17:09 +0100, Anton Piatek <an...@piatek.co.uk> > wrote: >> For those that attended the Hants LUG meeting at Hursley on Saturday I >> would appreciate feedback on how the day went. >> Things that went well >> Things that could have been done better >> This should help improve any further meetings I run at Hursley > > It was a fantastic opportunity, and many thanks are due to the IBMers who > gave up their Saturday to supervise the venue and contribute. Hursley house > is a great venue, the IBMers took care of security so it wasn't too much of > a pain, the networking worked well. Lunch in the clubhouse was great too, > not least because of the nice weather. > > I think we were collectively a little overwhelmed by the venue, because it > didn't feel like a normal LUG meeting. Even though there were could numbers > at the meeting, because of the scale of the venue I felt we were rattling > around a bit. We could do with encouraging people who aren't interested in > a particular talk to hang out in the seating area and chat. The lighting in > the main presentation room wasn't fantastic either, all the speakers were > quite strongly backlit due to the blind not closing. This made it difficult > to see their faces.
Thanks to all the replies so far - some great feedback! If we run another meeting at Hursley I want to focus on getting some time in the schedule for playing with boxes, as well as encouraging people to skip a talk they are not interested in to hang out in another room (the whole ground floor was available to us) The lighting in the auditorium was unfortunate - there are something like 8 preset light settings that we could have tried so I will keep an eye out next time to try and get it better. I am looking into the networking, but I suspect wired networks might be too much for our security rules. It sounds like only having reception open for a fixed time wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, and getting a few people late was not really a problem. Again, thanks to all that turned up (and also those that gave a talk!) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [0xB307BAEF] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 116A 5F01 1E5F 1ADE 78C6 EDB3 B9B6 E622 B307 BAEF No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
