UXcamp - Day2: UX of conferences (Sven Guckes)

A discussion session about "UX of conferences" hosted by Sven Guckes... Here are my notes.

Brainstorming Session

• After conference follow ups: Newsletter with summary
• Facilitating the in-between talks - enough breaks / more open spaces (facilitate 1:1 talks than 1:N talks) - "expand family"
• "lightning talks" - Talks to share a lot of ideas in 1-5 minutes
• Tagging - Wall for Tags with Faces (you can see the people in what they are interested in)...
• Speakers should know what the audience the need to prepare for (the organizer needs to take care of - show demographics)
• Share infos in various ways ... Facebook event/group, upcoming.org,
• Content of the website: Travel, Accomodation, pickup-places, party
• Barcamp: Couchsurfing (good example fosdem.org), Adopt-a-geek
• Community advice (evangelists of conferences)
• Twitter - News : always at the right time and updating

 What you should focus in the conference on:
- Goals for the community
- Business plan
- Goals for the committee

 

3 most important infos on a website: speakers, costs, hard facts (how to get there)
Most time organizing an event needs to be spent on money + sponsors.

Call for help if you need it: Show tasks on the website - The problem is tracking the people.
(makesense.org -Website: Website to find people, it's about skills)