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Overall the conference was very good. A few possible improvements
rate a mention.

Lunches were not good value, but this may be hard to achieve given the
scale of prices convention centres like to charge. When lunch is bundled
with the conference the price gets hidden and makes the whole event more 
expensive, but possibly more palatable to the people who can still 
afford to go! Making it optional is probably the best option - at least
it gives you a chance to avoid paying extortionate prices.

More BOFs - now that they have (hopefully) been reestablished people
can get a few more going and maybe set them up in such a way that they
don't clash with other events such as lunch, rescheduled talks, etc.

Access to e-mail/internet could be improved by:
1) Making access available from 8:30am - this could mean locating
the terminals separate from the exhibition.
2) Restricting access time or providing more terminals - some people
seemed to be relying on the terminals to continue doing their jobs
even while they were away!
3) This may have been done anyway - advising people without direct 
internet access from their usual machine of a forwarding address 
for the duration of the conference - this would mean the conference
server would have to be running at least by the day before the
tutorials. People would have to be advised to keep a local copy
on their home machines to avoid losing messages received after the
conference mail server had been shut down.


Thanks to all involved in the organisation for a sterling effort.

David.

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