[Workshops] Lessons learned - workshops & tutorials

[Paolo Zatelli]

Hi Oscar,
thanks for your work: the organization and the location was perfect (and
lunch very nice). And thanks to the "red shirt" volunteers.

On 09/14/2010 09:08 PM, Oscar Fonts wrote:
> Also interesting to know your opinion! It will help to improve future
> conferences.
> 
> I missed almost all the Conference due to 'force majeure'
> circumstances, so have little idea on how Tutorials went...

Sorry about that.

> 
> * Workshop venue: It is worth to have workshops in a separate venue
> with permanent computer rooms?

I have presented workshop both in the same venue of the conference
(Sydney, Cape Town, Victoria, Lausanne) and in a separate venue.
My opinion is that it does not make much difference for the presenters
and the attendees as long there is an easy way to reach the venue (as it
was this year with the metro).
For the organizers, I guess using an existing computer lab makes things
easier and cheaper.

> * Tutorial venue: Were the rooms big enough? What about internet
> connectivity? (well, I could guess on that).

Room capacity was ok, we have been somehow flooded by attendees due to
the "QGIS incident". We were not using the Internet connection, so I
cannot comment on that.

> * Schedule,
Probably having all the workshop on the same day would have made the
organization easier, but then again, we should have been there a day in
advance to check the configuration.

> * Catering,
very good!

> * Assistance...

excellent

> 
> Comment on whatever you think remarkable for the future.
It would have been nice for the presenters to have the possibility to
register before the workshops: having the badge with the name would have
probably helped during the workshop.

> 
> My own personal lesson has a name: Paul Wickman. Any news from him? :)

The funny (not really) thing is that the very same situation happened
for the QGIS workshop at the last Italian FOSS4G/GRASS conference in
Lugano in February: it was canceled a few minutes before the scheduled time.


Cheers,		Paolo


> 
> Best,
> 
> Oscar.
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