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Post Conference Report
jheld67 edited this page Aug 2, 2013
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Discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/api-craft/v7qpUPaIcUo
(please add your city if we missed it.)
- Ann Arbor
- Austin
- Berlin
- Boston
- Chicago
- Cincinnati
- Denver
- Detroit
- Freeport, Maine
- Hong Kong
- Los Angeles
- Minneapolis
- New York
- Paris
- Phoenix
- Prague
- Salt Lake City
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Vancouver
- Washington, D.C.
- Waterloo
- 93 Paid Attendees
- 6 Organizers
- 5 Scholarship Attendees
21 Published Session Proceedings
- Ticket Sales: $16,275
- Anonymous Sponsors: $12,330
- Food & Drinks: $15,280.37
- Facility: $9,527.63
- Swag: $2,724.14
- Supplies: $536.84
- EventBrite Fees: $499.41
- Open space format worked surprisingly well
- Food and drink were good and there was plenty of it
- Venue was cool-ish (a few shortcomings below)
- The law of mobility kicked in on day 2 with good results
- Support team at the Madison Building was very helpful
- EventBrite was reliable
- Swag was well received
- The organizers were not as well organized as they would have liked for morning session on day 1
- Organizers did not clearly communicate the fluid nature of session times and session topics on day 1, which caused confusion
- There were not enough breakout areas
- The larger breakout areas were too noisy
- The organizers did not emphasize that sessions can and should end early if the topic has been covered
- Using the auditorium for evening news was the wrong space: broadcast mode instead of interactive mode
- Create a better circle for the morning planning session
- Due to lack of space, our circle collapsed into a lopsided blob
- Quieter breakout areas and more of them
- Encourage butterflies and bumblebees on day 1
- Bigger wall for the space-time matrix and the community bulletin board
- Communicate breakfast times in the event API and on the event website
- Ask for actionable outcomes for each session
- Create signs with API Craft values (represent thyself, not thycompany, etc) along with Open Space values
- Save money by ordering a little less food and drink