[Workshops] FOSS4G2008 workshop and lab evaluations

[burnie nawn]

Morning All

 

I think it is time to put more information to the table supplied. This would then also serve to inform the new LOC on what can improve.

 

As you are well aware we actually ran workshops on 5 different locations at one time. One of the venues was more then 5km's away. Logistically this was a challenge and we were ensured that the new LOC will take this in consideration.

 

We further ran a record number of workshops and labs. The human resources available to do this was stretched beyond the limit in both setting up and preparing but also in running it and ensuring all goes well. Volunteers did help greatly in distributing the printed materials, including the evaluation questionaire. 

 

We have however found that at certain venues participants did not return their questionaires as requested or did not fill them in. In certain case one or two pages might have gotten entangled in another pile when volunteers collected forms. As you would have seen under our planning for FOSS4G2008 we used a generic template. The problem was that participants did not fill in the workshop they attended and sometimes only wrote Tuesday Lab on it. My guess is there are two ways to improve this:

1. Print the questionaire with the workshop/lab title, which means you need to know precisely how many is attending or do a maximum bulk print, which is too costly.

2. Have a house keeping slide in every venue to remind participants to write the workshop title on teh form as well and have that re-inforced by presenters at the end of each workshop/lab.

 

So to get back to the comments thus far. Thank your for helping us out and finding the one or two that was mis-filed. I will change the settings this morning so you can at least see all the fields. I will chat to Gavin and see how we can optimise participation and insight into the feedback.

 

Looking forward to enhance everybody's experience at FOSS4G.

 

Kind regards,
Burnie Nawn  
Tel. No. (011) 773 1682
Cell No. 072 134 5352
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E-mail: jbnawn at hotmail.com


 



 
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:31:14 +0100
> From: Marco.Ciolli at ing.unitn.it
> To: conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Workshops] FOSS4G2008 workshop and lab evaluations
> 
> Dear Gavin,
> 
> we are not able to find the evaluation of the workshop
> 
> Practical Introduction to GRASS and related software for beginners - 
> Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli, Clara Tattoni [seats available]
> CODE: WS-F-6
> 
> we held in Capetown.
> 
> Are the evaluations of our workshop stored in the WS-F-6 that is 
> labeled Web based GIS and domain model integartion?
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Marco Ciolli
> 
> 
> 
> Gavin Fleming ha scritto:
> 
> > Better late than never, here are the workshop and lab (tutorial) 
> > evaluations from FOSS4G2008, which should come in useful for those about 
> > to submit for 2009.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Evaluations were received for all workshops, though not all labs. The 
> > responses have been captured but not analysed any further. Some minor 
> > changes are still being made but this is basically everything.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > *http://tinyurl.com/foss4g2008ws-eval *
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> > 
> > 
> > Gavin
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