Monday marked the first edition of the DevWorld.ro an event organized by IDG and addressed to developers and designers.
The good
- I really liked the format of the event with some short sessions at the beginning, followed by specialized sessions for developers and designers and a panel
- I liked most of the sessions. I know it is very difficult to make everyone happy about it, so this is just my feedback
- I liked the fact that attendees have used the breaks to socialize and I've heard a lot of interesting discussions
- The selected projects for the contest were quite good. Their presentations were good too.
- The feedback they have received back looked to be in the right spirit.
The bad
- There was no internet connection and I had to buy it myself from the hotel desk. While I'm aware that getting an internet connection arrangement may be difficult and/or expensive (to somehow confirm this hypothesis, I've noticed that too many such events were no providing an internet connection) I think the organizers should try harder to get one.
- The space allocated for breaks was quite small and it hardly accommodated all the event participants
- Most of the sessions were longer than scheduled and so the agenda was not respected. While I do think that the speakers were the ones responsible for this issue, the organizers should have set up a process to keep it under control
- For the last couple of hours of the event there was no water.
What I'd like
- I'd like to see people in the audience getting more involved during the sessions
- I'd like to see people trying to connect with as many others as possible (instead of spending the breaks with the group they came in)
- and I'd definitely like to see the next edition.
Last, as I couldn't run the whole presentation I'm embedding it here:
Programatori cu capul in nori
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PS: Thanks to the fact that the schedule was not respected, I've had the chance to present to the full audience (and I confess I was quite happy with that).
Is there anything I've forgot?
3 comments:
I agree with your good/bad parts. For me Internet access was an important issue, not because I can't live offline a day but because it's seems decent to have free wifi especially at a developer conference (even though I realize that Hotels charge too much).
For socializing we also have http://wurbe.ro/ where geeks gather :P
Can you please post more information about your Daily Cloud, never knew it was running on GAE? Do you manually add links or is something automatic, and how do you run it since GAE does not allow background processes?
Mihai,
I'll speak for myself only and say that I cannot go offline for a day during a week day.
My problem with wurbe is that it is usually announced after it happened. And it is quite difficult to add it to my agenda when I find out about it couple of days after the event.
I'm planning to share more details of what I've learnt while building DailyCloud (which is indeed running on GAE).
Indeed that's a small issue with Wurbe. One of them said it's going to be next thursday (21 May), I'll do my best to go, maybe we'll discuss more about clouds, I recently started experimenting with EC2.
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