XDC 2018 feedback

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Samuel,

On Monday, 1 October 2018 17:40:02 EEST Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Now that XDC 2018 is over, it is time to gather feedback!
> 
> We would like to ask to all the attendees and the ones following us
> online for feedback about the conference. We are going to forward the
> received feedback to X.Org Foundation in order to take it into account
> for future events.
> 
> Feel free to reply publicly here, or send it privately to us
> (xdc2018 at gpul.org).

First of all, I would like to thank the GPUL, Igalia, UDC and all other 
organizers for their amazing work. As Daniel mentioned, not only did 
everything go smooth, but the attention given to small details was very 
impressive.

Holding the event at UDC interactions between the university students and our 
community. During the closing session we have been told that around 30 
students attended talks, and I believe that in itself is a nice achievement as 
all interactions with the academic world are beneficial for both sides. For 
future events organized in a similar context, I wonder whether we couldn't go 
one step further by lowering the barrier to interaction between the two 
groups. Announcing at the beginning of the conference that students will join 
could improve the awareness of community members. There also could be other 
ways to make our hallway track discussions more open to students who may be 
too shy to interact.

Another area of possible improvement could be scheduling. Most presentations 
ended up well before the end of the 45 minutes time slot. I don't know if this 
was due to miscommunication of timings between the schedule committee and the 
presenters or to other reasons, but it felt that we could have had a few more 
talks included in the program (given that we had more submissions than 
available slots).

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart