2015-04-15 12:42 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Ceccolini <gianfranco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi everyone
Hope that all attendees had a safe return.
My impressions of the LAC 2015 we all positive and I can only thank the organization for putting such a big effort in organizing such a good event.
I have some some suggestions and considerations regarding the Hack’n Roll space.
Since it was a first time of such a place I reckon there’s a lot of optimizations to be done.
Overall I think that the experience of the Hack n’ Roll was well worth. I saw many people jamming and I also had the opportunity to play some chops (as Gerald noted :-).
Some points for maintaining or for improvement:
- Location: the room was placed in a very convenient spot. Not on the way but at the same time, close enough. The staircase provided what I think to be a nice separation. From the hallway one could here the music going on without being bothered by it.
- Opening hours: this I believe was the main drawback. I think that the Hack n’ Roll should run “off hours” (lunch time and post presentations). It could even be closed during the “work hours”. This would make the space much more useful and would also prevent competition in attendance to the other events. I understand that this leads to practical issues, specially regarding man power, but I really think it is something to be thought of.
Also, I think it would be great if the space was opened on Sunday so that those that do not want to go on the field trip can spend the sunday there putting all the post-LAC ideas into practice :-)
- Booking; this is tricky. Whereas the space was free to “come and play” I think that an “on demand booking system” would be handy. It could be a simple sheet of paper attached to the front door with the time slots division where people would fill in. Having a totally free using space is cool in a way, but one needs to adapt to whatever and whoever is at the place. This somehow prevents the organization of small planned sessions.
- Sound equipment: this is a thing that I believe did not get clear on the emails prior to the event. I luckily took my stage bag with some guitar leads and those were very useful, but before the event I thought those would be available and almost did not took mine.
I think the space should have: Mixer + PA + Loudspeakers (+ a MIDI keyboard, maybe). The rest should all be brought by participants and this should be clear from the start.
- General equipment: the infrastructure of the room was great. More AC plugs that one would ever need and the desks proved also very handy. More than one time I saw people there just sitting and coding anything with actually participating in a jam. I consider this to be very nice.
Guess that’s it. I had a great time at the event and would surely like to attend again.
One again I’d like to thank the organization for doing such a great job.
Hope to see everyone next year
Regards
Gianfranco
The MOD Team
> Em 15/04/2015, à(s) 00:35, Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi@xxxxxx> escreveu:
>
> Hi, I'd also like to thank the organisers of the LAC2015
> for the great work. IMO the informal nature of it was great, and the
> Hack n Roll room was there to so that people could jam with others (I
> jammed the hell out with the MOD Team, thanks guys). It was great that
> there were no restrictions/schedules/plans for that room.
> Regards
> Gerald, JimsonDrift
>
> On 14.04.2015 21:40, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> Just to add my 2d (old UK money)
>>
>> I thoroughly enjoyed this year's LAC. Many thanks to all those working behind
>> the scenes.
>>
>> Now I've got work to do with all the fresh ideas buzzing round in my head!
>>
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Hello dear all LAUers.
After so many years subscribed to this list I finally managed to go to this 13th LAC (and it seems 13 is a great number and brought us "good LAC" ;) ).- to the organization, for all the effort and uncountless hours of preparation, and being able to manage getting it all done successfully despite all the issues that may have happened
- to all of you for being not only the creators, coders, testers, users, etc of such a great stuff whether it's software, hardware or content, but also for being amazing people to have a tech chat, brainstorm (serious or not :) ) or laugh having some beer/wine (no, not the emulator ;) ).
So... Thanks to all and such a pleasure to know you face to face at last.
Having said that, and to add my two cents regarding possible improvements for future LACs, these are a few I've talked with some of you (some of them already pointed on previous mails):
- some more combo acoustic (or electronics) instruments, such as guitar, bass, drums, percussion, and also mic(s) + PA for singing and jamming "the old way" and mix it with the already present digital/electro stuff. I would loved to provide some but travelling with such stuff is complicated these days.
- at some conferences I could barely hear the speaker (or his voice was distorted), or he couldn't get the sound out of his laptop, so one person who knows the equipment to help would be nice
Kindest regards.
P.S.1: It would be nice to have some LAC in Spain, although I talked about this with some of you and the reality is that is hard and difficult for many reasons. Anyway, it would be great.
P.S.2: Frank, please don't take P.S.1 so serious to consider me as some next organizer ;) (at least not for the moment, let's see)
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