Hi, In general, I think the organization was great. I agree having everything happen in a single room was a good point. Here's some of my personal feedback: * I didn't like the tables layout at all. I found it to be extremely uncomfortable to have to look sideways in order to see the screens and presenter. * There were a very few power strips, and not well distributed along the tables. Also, this is what I've been able to gather from some of my colleagues here at NVIDIA:: * Some people watching the conference remotely complained about the stream quality, and the recordings wouldn't include the presenter. In one of the hallway conversations, Martin mentioned in XDC2016 they had a team of camera experts doing the job, and will try to improve that part in future XDC's. * The microphone/audio situation wasn't great either. I don't know how practical it is with something the size of XDC, but at Khronos meetings, they usually set up microphones for the audience too, with tap-on/tap-off switches, and a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 for microphones:people. That makes Q&A a lot easier. Alternatively, having a question queue rather than running mics around the room can speed things up, but makes cross-talk harder. * The table/chair layout was really cumbersome. Beyond just the orientation, some people had a lot of trouble getting in/out to use the restroom, grab snacks, etc. On a positive note: * More time for hallway conversations was in general a good thing. Some of us got a ton of useful feedback talking to others. * The food was great, and having food on-site gave us even more time for hallway-tracking. * Surprisingly, parking was not an issue. * Signage was good, and the security guards were polite/helpful. It was easy to find the room and get our badges. * The wifi worked great in general, which is a rarity at conferences. It was pretty spotty at XDC 2016. Thank you. On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:49:10 -0700 Manasi Navare<manasi.d.navare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > XDC was a really great conference and loved the fact that it was > in just one room which kept all the hallway conversations in that room resulting > into more networking. > But I agree with Andres that for the videos, it would be great to split the > huge youtube video stream per presentation and have seperate links for each > talk somewhere on the XDC page. > > Regards > Manasi > > > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Andres Rodriguez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A small piece of feedback from those of us watching remotely. It would be > > nice to have a simple to access index for the long livestream videos. > > > > I think the XDC 2017 wiki page would be a good place for this information. A > > brief example: > > > > Presentation Title | Presenter Name | Link with timestamp > > -------------------|----------------|--------------------- > > ... | ... | youtu.be/video-id?t=XhYmZs > > > > Or alternatively, a list of hyperlinks with the presentation title as text > > that point to the correct timestamp in the video would also be sufficient. > > > > Really enjoyed the talks, and would like them to be slightly easier to > > access and share with others. > > > > Regards, > > Andres > > > > > > On 2017-09-26 12:57 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >First again big thanks to Stéphane and Jennifer for organizing a great XDC. > > > > > >Like last year we'd like to hear feedback on how this year's XDC went, > > >both the good (and what you'd like to see more of) and the not so > > >good. Talk selection, organization, location, scheduling of talks, > > >anything really. > > > > > >Here's a few things we took into account from Helsinki and tried to apply: > > >- More breaks for more hallway track. > > >- Try to schedule the hot topics on the first day (did we pick the > > >right ones) for better hallway track. > > >- More lightning talk time to give all the late/rejected submissions > > >some place to give a quick showcase. > > > > > >Things that didn't work out perfectly this year and that we'll try to > > >get better at next year: > > >- Lots of people missed the submission deadline and their talks were > > >rejected only because of that. We'll do better PR by sending out a > > >pile of reminders. > > >- Comparitively few people asked for travel assistance. No idea > > >whether this was a year with more budget around, or whether this isn't > > >all that well know and we need to make more PR in maybe the call for > > >papers about it. > > > > > >But that's just the stuff we've gathered already, we'd like to hear > > >more feedback. Just reply to this mail or send a mail to > > >board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you don't want the entire world to read it. > > >And if you want to send at pseudonymous feedback, drop a pastebin onto > > >the #xf-bod channel on the OFTC irc server. > > > > > >Thanks, Daniel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dri-devel mailing list > > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel -- Miguel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
