Notes taken during Town Hall (Friday 15:30)

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• Still Water <drinks were good>

• Rooms too warm

• Better to have hacker room closer to the session rooms

• More time (sessions and breaks)

• Three tracks too many (some said too few)

• Need to balance 'important' sessions with less important ones (SDK against XML in same timeslot)

• Good sessions mix

• Consider two full days instead of 1.5...(with 1 day for special meetings)

• Party was important, no pressure to rush

• Attendee list would be good

• Color-coded badges

• Bigger list of hotels with URLs / booking sites

• Audio recordings or transcripts / video (Claus promises this in Copenhagen...in Flash...with multilanguages)

• More contact points between Sun engineers (not just release engineers)

• Price: low entry fee is good for TCO

• Better internet connections...wireless is good...just make it easy to get to

• Bloggers & real time photos would be good

• IRC / AIM

• 3rd party SDK

• Workshop character...not such a lecture format

• Developer tutorials...how to hack some specific box

• More cushy chairs

• Coffee (not Java)

• More notice on program details (so you can plan)...longer deadlines also

• Tutorials for end users...may be problem to attract users at developer-focused conference

• CeBIT as a platform for advertising this conference

• Question of whether CeBIT is a good anchor

• Tie to a 'teach-in' in the community

• Tie to a different Open Source conference (LinuxTAG for instance) 15K attendees focused on developers...could pre-pend or append.

• Registration trouble...had to be persistent due to domain name resolution problem...confirmation would have been nice

• Larger Schedules in the hallways