Balkans/Events:2012/Zagreb/Aftermath/Feedback: Difference between revisions

==Participant's thoughts==

===Aleksandar Savić===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

====Suggestions for improvement====

 

===Adi Zeljković===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

====Suggestions for improvement====

 

===Gent Thaci===

====What was good====

* Venue,

* Hotel,

* Food,

* Organizing.

* Community Balkans Members

====What was bad====

* Postponing sessions,

* Wake and meetup up in time to leave hotel.

====Suggestions for improvement====

* Agenda pre-set in time

* Etherpads prepared

* Different places to eat, more tradinional food.

 

===Altin Ukshini===

====What was good====

* Places (Hotel, Restaurants)

* Lunch, Dinner

* People (very friendly)

====What was bad====

* All things went up in hurry

* Agenda changed so often because speakers didnt prepare their presentations in time, and Etherpads should have been prepared earlier.

====Suggestions for improvement====

* Start preparing documents earlier for participants who have to apply for Visas.

* More places to visit...

* More hands on code/hacking/sessions

 

===Novica Nakov===

====What was good====

*big turnout

*meeting the local hacker community

*axel's and brian's patience

====What was bad====

*not enough hands-on stuff

*not enough power cords  

*we should have spend more time on the swot.

*t-shirts with big football-like prints on the back :)

====Suggestions for improvement====

*more hands-on stuff

 

===Damjan Georgievski===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

====Suggestions for improvement====

 

===Ioana Chiorean===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

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===Alex Lakatos===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

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===Oskar Ivanić===

====What was good====

* Hotel, food, positive atmosphere, learned interesting stuff from presentations, especially about Summer Campaign 2012 in which I'm interested. Croatian team took a really good care of us.

====What was bad====

*Weather -_- , Sunday should be day for hangouts (because workshop ended up early) .

====Suggestions for improvement====

*More hands on sessions.

Get some sleep so you could be more organized and less stressful. :)

 

===Dejan Binder===

====What was good====

Totel,Mozillians,positive atmosphere,food,visit to the hack lab, logistics

 

====What was bad====

Not enough sights visited, the mix up around the agenda, the weather :D

 

====Suggestions for improvement====

 

===Brian King===

 

====What was good====

* Nikola / Niko / Vedran / Lahorka

* Hotel

* Venue / WiFi

* Food

* People - passionate and engaged

* Axel's guidance on socialising

* T-Shirt

* SWOT Session

* Talks most were good, a mix of technical and non-technical

** Mike's talks on community and how he setup an FLOSS community in Kosovo

** Selim's talk on the press

* Pranks on Nikola

 

====What was bad====

* No show of Greece and Bulgaria

* Sessions started too late every day

* Poor moderation of sessions

* Schedule was not advertised well enough / clear enough

* Late nights

* Slightly disappointing turnout from the Mozilla Croatia community

* Pranks on Brian

 

====Suggestions for improvement====

* Better coffee setup in the room

* More snacks, e.g. fruit

* More power cords

* Don't wait for latecomers in the morning, they should not hold up the schedule

* Organisers should focus on getting more sleep

* More workshops / hands-on sessions

* Assign moderator to sessions to:

** make sure everything goes on time

** introduce sessions and speakers

** make organisational announcements

* More variation in restaurants, perhaps closer to hotel / venue

* More pranks on Nikola

 

===Nino Vranešič===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

====Suggestions for improvement====

 

===Selim Sumlu===

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====What was bad====

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===Michelle Thorne===

====What was good====

* Good turnout, good level of cooperation and interest

* Nice location, comfortable hotel

* Well-organized pick-up and drop-off for airport bus

* Yummy food

* Great to hear the country reports

* Friendly host team, very considerate and fun to work with.

====What was bad====

* More hands-on sessions would've helped create good energy, learn and discuss more intensely. Can be in small groups and allow people to participate in session that interest them.

* Important to give clear meeting times. Often confusion about when meeting vs. when things are starting.

* No plan for next steps. The SWOT analysis was helpful, but it would've been good to decide on next steps as a group.

====Suggestions for improvement====

* Mix up the groups. Not everything has to be in plenary with everyone. Sometimes smaller discussion/hacking groups are more effective.

* Structure the one day of sessions so that Sunday is for exploring, relaxing, hanging out together.  

* Etherpads set up in advance for collaborative note-taking.

 

===Axel Hecht===

====What was good====

====What was bad====

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===James Michael Dupont===

====What was good====

* Food, Hotel, Travel, Rooms, people.

====What was bad====

* Planning was a bit chaotic.

* too much beer and energy drinks.

====Suggestions for improvement====

* get more sleep for the organizers

* we could have skipped friday, it would have been fine in two days. only sat was really used.

 

 

===Ioan Marius Chiorean===

====What was good====

-Hotel - very nice and comfortable, good wifi

        - thanks for their support in helpind the coordinators to Lahorka and Vedran

-Food - very good location, good food

 

====What was bad====

====Suggestions for improvement====