Share your thoughts on BarCampRochester2 and how can we make your BCR3 experience kick even more ass!

• Organization
  • From a host's standpoint, I think it would've been nice to have a list of emails collected somewhere, so I could get in touch with everyone uniformly. Ah, ad-hocness :) -Jason
  • The rooms didn't get unlocked until REALLY LAST MINUTE, which is why I was rushing in the morning and didn't get to put together a formal registration checklist - this would've been nice too :) -Jason
  • Using Pledgie to collect donations last-minute was extremely painless and worked very well. Kudos to Pledgie, however it fits into future BarCamps :) -Jason

• Food
  • What did you think of the food? Quality? Quantity? Too much, too little, didn't feel xyz was necessary, wished there was zyx?
  • I was pretty famished by the time dinner rolled around, a few more things to hold out over the afternoon would have been nice. -Jason
  • What kinds of foods were you thinking, Jason? There was still a whole bag of bagels left at the end. We could have had more food if anyone cared to bring any. Did everyone know that they can bring snacks or was everyone just too busy? -emily

• Date
  • The date was certainly an issue for some (particularly students). I believe BarCampRochester3 is being tentatively planned for fall. Are any particular dates good/bad?
  • BarCapRochester3 is tentatively being planned for the first half of October. Pat Tribble and I are currently planning on starting the logistics over the summer. We will be reading this as we start that process and please don't hesitate to contact either of us with ideas or if you would like to help (mdumont at csh dot rit dot edu). - Mike Dumont

• Length
  • Did you like the single day length? Would 2 days be better? Too much?
  • Should there be a Friday night get-together, followed by a full day of BarCamping? -Jason
  • I think the Friday night idea is a good idea, no real formal sessions maybe just get some food and have kind of a social night and then do the day of BarCamping. -Mike Dumont

• Session Length
  • Half hour sessions seemed quite fast-paced to me... perhaps a longer session is warranted? -Jason
  • I was thinking 45 minute sessions would work well. I think any time is going to be tough because I know some sessions ran short so the room wouldn't be used whereas some ran long and pushed back the schedule. I was planning on getting a fourth room for the fall. -Mike Dumont
  • Get rooms that are closer together if possible. I prefer not to have too many concurrent sessions so that people don't have to choose between so many. But a 4th room could be available just in case. -emily

• Format
  • 3 tracks... what was the good/bad/ugly? How can this be addressed? (We'll have video coverage of a few morning sessions coming online eventually... thanks Jason and Adam!!) It also seemed nice to have a down-time room (occasionally when there was no session going on int 2400... also the food was there). Should there be a reserved lounge/relax/food/videogames room? Should there be more or fewer tracks?
  • Maybe should we spend more time juggling the sessions around in the morning? -Jason
  • I like the idea of a reserved down time room because there were times when I didn't want to barge in on a session but I wanted to grab something from the food in 2400. I think 3 tracks worked good and I think adding a fourth has the upside of putting more sessions in in the morning before we start to lose momentum towards the evening. I also think that putting in a fourth will cause more conflicts with interesting presentations. Thoughts anyone? - Mike Dumont

• Advertising
  • This is immensely helpful for future organizers - please let us know how you heard about BarCampRochester2, and/or where you think we should reach out that we might have forgotten about. BarCamp.org RSS, flyers, user group email, Facebook, a friend, etc...
  • Fliers on campus/friend/facebook. -Mike Dumont
  • I plan on using fliers and facebook advertisements as well as barcamp.org and word of mouth for next years advertising. -Mike Dumont

THANKS!!