On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Amit Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Saleem for pulling this in to the Fedora mailing lists. > > On (Tue) 08 Nov 2011 [01:28:15], tuxdna wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Chaitannya Mahatme <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi Suchakra, >> > >> > I do agree with the Siji regarding a few aspects. >> > About the sessions even I experienced the same thing. A few simple things >> > could have been done eleminate the inconvenience caused. >> > >> > 1. Since there were more than 2 venues, there should have been a map on the >> > back of the schedule. >> >> There were separate venue maps printed and distributed on the first >> day ( registration ) of >> event. Maybe they got over by the time you reached there. > > I doubt that; we had several copies, maybe some people didn't pick them up.
Besides that, I believe at least the pre-scheduled speakers had contact information of at least one of the organizers. Did they try contacting them? >> This is acceptable to some extent but then again FUDCon is a barcamp style, >> self organizing conference. So essentially speakers are required to take the >> lead in organizing the sessions by themselves. Maybe this message was't >> well received by the audience. > > Absolutely. Also, this was our conference, each one of us. We're all > friends in the Fedora community, and we'd love to have people come up > and pitch in for help where you thought the organisers or volunteers > weren't up to the mark. We'd also have loved feedback during the conf > so that the experience could've been better for the others. +1. I don't think it even goes with the basis on which FUDCon was built. Did you know that we had on-spot sessions by a number of attendees? We did and they did their own grunt work of talking to the organizers and working with them to arrange for a spare slot and of pulling in attendees. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
