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- Lunch
- Streaming
- Audio/Video Internet
- Room Allocation / Signs
- Registration
- Make labels and attendance sheet before
Presentations
- better prep for keynote
- Coaching
- Graphics
Other Changes
- Full day, 9:00 - 5:00
- 3 tracks
- Shorter sessions?
- BoF board for flexible scheduling
- early announcement of dates and registration
- bigger sponsor program
- Good after venue space with reduced/no noise
- Mix of User / Admin / Developer sessions
- Mix of future / current
- Community session
- Better closing remarks
- Print schedule to hand out - maybe include sponsors logos in booklet
- Decide sessions 2 weeks before
- Explicit space for sponsors to give out marketing materials
- Job connections session (consultancies seeking developers, organizations seeking prof svcs)
London CiviCon feeedback
The London CiviCon incorporated most of the above changes. Here are a couple more that came out of discussions / email after the conference
- More aggresive with pitching sponsorship opportunities to the Professional Services Listing. i.e. send them email early on, send multiple emails
- Add a session description to the program, giving info about contents of talk and speaker
- I felt some of the sessions were not very well explained / described in the schedule, often I did not understand what the session was going to consist of until I was actually in it. For example: CiviCRM as Open SaaS: I didn't know before and still don know what 'Open SaaS' means although it was interesting to learn about civisites. (from a user email).
- Have one session with structured Q&A split into smaller groups - user / integrator / drupal modules / developer / sclability etc
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Hide/Show CommentsMar 11, 2011
JoeMurray
Good suggestions.
I'd consider repeating some sessions.
You might also use the program to sell advertising: a folded and stapled 8.5 x 11 booklet would make the conference more professional and more than pay for itself.
The sessions didn't seem too long - I wouldn't shorten them.
A pre-event session during the registration / coffee time could help intro people who haven't been to a CiviCon to what to expect.
I might pitch something like the session on what D7 has to teach Civi as a core developer discussion. Might make sense to try to have a few core developer discussions.
I think some sessions on how to run good CiviCRM Consulting businesses / projects would be helpful.
Mar 15, 2011
JoeMurray
Regarding sponsorships / sponsors:
While most of the Consulting providers are quite small, it might be good to offer booth space in the future (for a fee, of course).
Probably a better idea is to offer to put marketing material/swag into a bag/package given to attendees. Would be good for more of us to start producing it.
Might also be nice to have a job seeking session, as many sponsors could use new hires.