[Tycon3] Some feedback

[Francois Suter]

Hi all,

First of all I would like to thank the organisers and the speakers for 
making the first TYCON3 a very pleasant and interesting event. I had a 
very good and profitable time.

Now since anything can always be improved, here are a couple of points I 
would like to raise in the hope that they will be considered as 
constructive and not negative :-)

- I found it hard to get in touch with a specific person and even 
knowing whether a given person was preset or not. In many conferences, 
lists of participants are handed out. A kind of message board could have 
been useful too.

- Additional information on the name tags could help make contact, for 
example the company/entity the person belongs to and maybe the country flag.

- Having organised a couple of events myself, I know that the most 
expensive single thing is the location, so this is not easy. However I 
found this hotel rather inappropriate. My main gripe is that there was 
very little room to stop and talk to people. Coming out the conference 
rooms, the corridor was very tight and then we were directly in the 
hotel lobby; then the bar and the restaurant, which didn't offer much 
more space for 200 people. Fortunately, the wheather was good and we 
could spill outside.

- The conference dinner was nice but people could not mix easily, since 
most tables were rather small (or long rectangular ones). I have been to 
a few conferences where we had large round table (10-12 people) and this 
makes it easier to meet new people. This could even be encouraged by 
having people pick a table number at random.

Anyway thanks again.

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch