Conference Feedback

[jd callow]

Good Day,
I have sent a request for feedback to all attendees whose email was part of our spreadsheet information. About 25% have responded If you did not receive the request please PM me with your email. If you received it and have yet to respond please do respond.

I will sending out similar requests to sponsors, vendors, and instructors next (oddly in reverse order).

There will be 3 parts to this exercise. The first being the request, the second a request for clarification or detail and the third will be the results. You may find it interesting, but you'll need to participate.

Cheers

jdc

P.s. if you post your feedback here I'll still need the email answered so I can add you to the interchange.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I didn't attend, alas, and I'm not sure how many of us are students or teachers, but I would have been able to attend if the event had been after the end of the academic term. As it was, it fell during finals week, so I had to sit on a dissertation defense that fell right in the middle of the conference. Maybe next time in June.

 

[blaze-on]

JOhn, could you post the officail tally on number of attendants?
APUG members, non-APUG members...any tracking?

 

[jd callow]

Blaze on
Lots of tracking and I'm still collecting metrics -- hence this thread. We had about 110 paid attendees, the final few were not added to the spreadsheet for lack of time. Apuggers out numbered non Apuggers by about 5 to 2. Most who have replied to the feedback so far that were not members are now.

David early feedback indicates that late May to mid June would be a preferable time slot.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Late May to mid June would be perfect for me.

 

[ricksplace]

Late May to mid June would be perfect for me.

Same here for the same reasons.

 

[jd callow]

Of the 97 request sent out 37 were answered and five were returned undeliverable. I'd like to see a few more, but I will now send out a feedback request to our instructors and vendors.

The feed back has been excellent and surprisingly consistent. Most agree on where we succeeded and where we had failures.

 

[BWGirl]

The feed back has been excellent and surprisingly consistent. Most agree on where we succeeded and where we had failures.

John, John, John.... there were no failures... only areas of opportunity!

 

[sanking]

Of the 97 request sent out 37 were answered and five were returned undeliverable. I'd like to see a few more, but I will now send out a feedback request to our instructors and vendors.

The feed back has been excellent and surprisingly consistent. Most agree on where we succeeded and where we had failures.

Did you send me the form? If so, I appear to have lost it in the mail box.

Anyway, I thought the conference was very well organized, so kudos to Bob Carnie, John Callow and Eric Rose for their organizational work. One thing that might have helped would have been a central place where folks could go for information. At times I felt a bit loss as to exactly what was going on at any given time.

Over the past several years I have been to several photograhy conferences, incluidng ones put on by View Camera and by APIS (alternative photograhy international symposium). The APUG conference was unique in that the hands-on workshops allowed people to really expereince some of the processes and working technniques. The other conferences I have attended have not included these kind of workshops and this was a real big plus for APUG. Talk is fine but watching someone actually work an unknown process, carbon for example, takes much of the mystery out of the procedure and makes people realize that this is something they could actually do. After the Pt./Pd. workshp several people commented on the simplicity of the process and that they now felt very confident that they could do it.

So from my perspective these hands-on workshops were one of the great attractions of the APUG conference and I certainly hope that any future conferences includes this kind of activity.

Which brings me to a comment about future locales. Bob Carnie's facilties at Elevator were absolutely first rate. Whether Bob wants to do another conference is his decision to make, but in case he does, and there are others also interested, high priority shold go to the type of facilties available. What I will say without hesitation is that there are not a lot of places around that will be able to provide better logistical support than what we had at Elevator.

Sandy

 

[Lopaka]

Of the 97 request sent out 37 were answered and five were returned undeliverable. I'd like to see a few more, but I will now send out a feedback request to our instructors and vendors.

The feed back has been excellent and surprisingly consistent. Most agree on where we succeeded and where we had failures.

37 out of 92 that got through - about 40% response. From my experience, that's a good return rate. It would be great to get more - it could only help to make it better.

You guys did a great job - I don't think from what I experienced that I would characterize anything as a 'failure'. How about a 'learning experience'?

Anyway, if you decide to take it on for next year, I will try to help out wherever I can. John, since I am in your area (Sterling Heights) give me a shout.

Bob

 

[rogueish]

Sorry John!
Just put my responce in a few minutes ago.
Still recovering from all that hard work you put us poor volunteers through (just kidding).

 

[frugal]

I just sent my reply today as well. It helped to take a little bit of time and organise my thoughts.

 

[jd callow]

The instructors have now been asked their opinions.