[fedora-india] Fudcon (worst) Experience

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Amit Shah <amitshah at gmx.net> 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 <chaitannya at gmail.com> 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.


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