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Volunteers

• have a volunteers (announce-style) mailing list - Kat
• get volunteer info out way earlier, even if the timetable is not available - Kat
• good number of t-shirts, maybe a little fewer, also take into account the sizes that the organisers wear - Kat
• We didn't thank our volunteers in the closing compared with last GUADEC - jkang

Badges (name tags)

• if badge has no IRC nick, make name larger - Kat
• split long names over two lines automatically - Kat
• _way_ too long/low, it's difficult/awkward to be surreptitious in looking at people's stomachs when you forget a name - Michael
• Bold text is easier to read from a distance - Philip C
• Excellent idea to put wifi login info on badges - Philip C

Schedule

Good things

• the mix of 30- and 45-minute talks worked quite well, avoided having many talks end early while allowing more time for speakers who wanted it - Michael
• good amount of breaks built in to the schedule - Michael

Things to think about for next year

• 1h for lightning talks? - Kat
• should leave 2 hours for lunch, attendance at the keynotes was very low - Michael
• it was hard to know which unconference talks had been accepted and where they were - Allan
  • announce them at the closing of the previous session; don't forget to update website - Ben
• Maybe schedule keynote before lunch rather than after. - Rosanna
• Intern lightning talks earlier in the day so the interns get a fresher audience - Philip C

Workshops

• worked nicely. if conference length is a concern, I would cut the third BoF day before cutting workshops. - Michael

General

• it was good to have free food, tea, coffee - Kat, secondad by Allan!
• too many GUADEC t-shirts, don't go for too many even if they're basically free - Kat
• FOSDEM leftovers went down well, requests for baby stuff - Kat
• need to keep that water cooler stocked with disposable cups, the mugs were not convenient - Michael
• it was fantastic to have a range of GNOME t-shirts and swag to buy - Allan
• live video streams were amazing - Allan; seconded by Philip C
• would have been good to have made the sponsor logos more prominent in general - Allan
• Newcomer lunch/dinner needs a group reservation - Nuritzi
• Newcomer lunch/dinner might make more sense with more old people leading multiple small groups - Ben
• Badge machine was great! Love the "I was at GUADEC Karlsruhe" pins in particular. - Rosanna
• Appreciated the signs from the hotel leading to the venue. - Rosanna; seconded by Philip C
• Very happy to see the water cooler. BYO water bottle to use instead of plastic cups might be a good idea for the future. - Rosanna
• Suggestions for local restaurants, especially alternatives to hotel breakfast, would be appreciated - Philip C
• Wifi worked really well - Philip C

Fixable things mentioned

• Redo name splitting by using inkscape features:
  • Inkscape will reflow text correctly when using a text field. This way we can avoid the whole name splitting thing in regcfp. (Font size has to be static for this though, but that is the case) – Ben

Could have been improved on the fly if someone had asked for it:

• More plastic mugs would have been available from the janitor, but only I knew where – Ben
• Hackarea was too small (feedback wall at GUADEC); we could have brought in one or two more tables – Ben