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Feedback 2008

Venue was fantastic! Nice having all the talks in close proximity, so that it's easy to move between them.

• I agree, but some talks were really full, especially ones from Raymond Hettinger. Unfortunately at any venue there are big differences in room sizes (this one is better than most) and deciding which talks to put in which rooms is a very imprecise science.

individual water bottles seem wasteful and not entirely necessary, large jugs of water and regular, reusable glasses would be a good alternative in the same vein as coffee/tea (also probably no need for individually wrapped biscuits when they're all the same anyway, why waste the packaging?)

Lunch was mostly tasty, but seriously lacking in vegetables, bread/rice, and things that weren't deep-fried. Having fruit on Sunday was good, more fruit would have been even better. Cutlery at lunch would have been nice also. I was late for lunch, and missed everything but the cookies... more food next time please Friday lunch was meant to be a trial run for Saturday/Sunday, unfortunately although there was food for 100 people, only 20 came! The rest decided not to follow the signs 'Lunch - Refectory' but went out instead! So Saturday became the trial run, and we found that quantities needed to be increased (some people were somewhat greedy, like one guy took 10 chicken skewers when the caterers had allowed 2 per head) - I guess they are more used to mixed events, where the greedy blokes are offset by the sensible women . I have to say that there seemed to be plenty of things that were not deep-fried. Maybe we should go for less arty and more hearty fare next year - Comments please.

• Have to agree with both the above comments, tap water in jugs and a few sandwiches and more fruit would be good.
  • I don't agree on the water thing, glass bottles are "eco-friendly" enough and very practical to carry around. I agree lunch wasn't fantastic.

    • Did the bottles just go in the bin afterwards? Yep - next year we will think about bringing our own recycling crates.

• +1 on the "less arty, more hearty" - it felt more like post-wedding nibbles rather than lunch, slightly disappointing. When you say about using Friday as a trial for Saturday - do you mean quantity-wise? Surely there's bound to be more people present on Saturday than Friday? Anyhow, Saturday dinner was great ... then again it was excellent last year as well. Overall I enjoyed this years con and look forward to EuroPython next year, thanks for all your hard work!

next year, clean the wiki before the conference John Pinner says: Don't forget that this is a community conference, this is what it says on the front page of the wiki: 'If you notice things on this wiki that are out of date, please update them!'

Community Conference means 'if there's something you didn't like, then it's because you didn't do something about it'

Last year it was suggested that the "regional" session for individual user-groups should be done at the beginning of the conference, but it seems to have gone off the radar...? No, it was remembered, but in the end we didn't have the space where we wanted it. The original plan was that Raymond's Py3k talk would be a plenary followed by the local groups thing, but a number of very good talks came in at the last minute, and we decided to make way for them.

Web access in the BOF area was spotty (excellent everywhere else). Thanks, that's useful to know.

I really liked the introduction tutorials day as a total newbie. It was just too short, I would be really glad to see the very professional course given as a three days course before the conference. The same goes for the QT introduction. Please add another day in front of the conference for courses like this. I would attend

I was using an Eee PC at the conference, and so didn't have access to a CD drive. It would be handy if the conference CD was actually a conference memory stick. I don't know if that's remotely feasible, maybe with the right sponsors? There's a massive difference in cost. Alternatively if the same content was available online that would be great. Unfortunately there wasn't time for this, like we didn't master the CD until the day before the conference, as speakers were still sending in their slides, and even them we only got half the talks

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