FOSS4G2008 Comments

Things That Rocked

• The food rocked (+3)
• The Lightning Talks rocked
• Having a primary hotel (Fountains)
• Lots of interested people attending (+1)
• LiveDVD was grabbed a lot
• good support for academic track
• main conference venue CTICC rocked!
• significant regional representation rocked!

Things That Sucked

• Network bandwidth (sometimes) sucked (+2)
• Missing presenters (+2)
• The full conference timetable should be hosted (in navigable form) in the OSGeo conf system, not in systems like GoogleDocs where it will likely not preserved for the next years (+2)
• please add the presenter names to the conference planner (+2)
• the code sprint ending at 5pm sucked
• buses to workshops sucked
• too little info for exhibitors, or a bit too late to be useful

Other Things

• 2009: provide copy station for DVD and USB sticks at OSGeo booth so that folks can carry software/data/docs home