At the end of UTOSC 2007, the CoreTeam held a PostMortem that identified several things needed to improve UTOSC2008. As such, here is a list of items that were positives (Pros) and negatives (Cons).
Pros
- Evening kick off
- Happy to be here
- Best Sticker party idea ever
- LCD / digital displays of schedules
- Good Pricing
- After conference party
- Google snack room was great (whiteboard, quiet, networking, food, chair)
- Hero Moment - Pete Ashdown
- irc
- Keynotes were good
- Swag was good
- Emily
- Layout
- wireless
- website/registration
- MC himself thought he was great
- Good mix of presentations
- hacktivision
- orchestra
Cons
- Not enough food
- Bad times for Novell tour
- Letting presenters to know when time is up
- presenter badges
- throw away presenters if they don't stay in touch or on top of it
- presentation slide need to be in early
- more cameras, with backups
- need to finish web site
- Not enough food in snack room
- kiosks in break room
- better layout of program
- longer breaks
- Not enforcing room managers
- Head counts (Friday disappeared with notebook)
- Have clocks in all rooms
- Have awards taken care of
- Not enough plastered people
- Head of registration (better registration setup)
- No Server room ( for pushing info to clients)
- wireless
- wings, better food
- selections
- Foot Traffic Flow (Novell problem)
- Better business track
- More advertising
- Better Schedule layouts (printing, headers on each pages, binding)
- Numbers on badges
Improvement Ideas
- Family Oriented
- Scrap booking sessions / tutorial (one day at the end of conference)
- Open Source Gaming for kids
- Tutorials in general
- Book Keeper - Must have
- Deadlines are a must
- Problem resolution
- 45/60/90 sessions
- Talk to Pete Ashdown about servers at XMission
- New location (SLCC?)
- Build core team for conference planning (Clint, Stephen, John, Will, Emily, etc.)
- sub support for core (volunteers)
- Conference needs to be cheap, facility OK to make money off of it
- reseller of mouse rugs
- build Schedule 2008. Ready as soon as possible
- have a level listed (intermediate, advanced)
- bar codes on badges
- Geek Pageant?
- Discounts have a drop dead date.
- Wireless Mics?
Follow-ups
- Dinners for peeps
- Follow-up with the sponsors
- Sponsors deserve a bit more
- thank yous
- Thank you announcements next week for
- Novell / OSTC - Facilities / SWAG
- Direct Pointe - Computers / Printers
- Knowledge Blue - Cameras / Interviews
- Google,
- Get gift cards to helpers
- Give speakers a little gift
- Novell staff should get thank you cards too
- flicker, facebook
- opensuse.org, ubuntulinux.org, fedoraproject.org
- Keynotes
- Maddog
- Eric Raymond
- Lessig