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BarCampApacheOxford (April 09)
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BarCampApache EU 09
Signup - we had a board with the time slots, with plenty of space for multiple sessions per slot, but the board didn't enforce this with boxes. The result was that when the 1st talk for each slot was in, lots of people who were queueing to sign up stopped, even though we told them you could have more than one talk per slot. The conclusion was we should either have broken the signup sheet slots up to make it much clearer that multiple talks were accepted, or had a big signup sheet with no times, and assigned them later.
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Lunch - took too long, and we lost people who didn't come back afterwards. Ideally we'd get sponsorship to fund lunch, but as that's unlikely, we need to work with the hotel more beforehand about lunch. We'd though we could order food to the room, the hotel didn't, need to clear that up so we can do next time
Hokey cokey - was good to wake people up. If there's a bar, make people do it before the bar opens!
First two talks - had organisers give the first two talks. One being fun and short, the next being heavily discussion based. This sets the tone of the barcamp at the start, and stops it being too presentation heavily