Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:17:19 +0200
At 08:46 30/07/2003 +0200, you wrote: >--------ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: > >1) WAS THE LOCATION FOR THE CONFERENCE INTERESTING? hawaii: a bit far away (takes me including travel and jet-lag a week extra) place: Hilo might have been a nicer place (restaurants, near vulcano park) >2) WERE THE TOPICS COVERED OF INTEREST TO YOU? ok >3) LIST THE TALKS/SUBJECTS THAT WERE THE MOST VALUABLE TO YOU. - >4) LIST THE TALKS/SUBJECTS THAT WERE THE LEAST VALUABLE TO YOU. - >--------INTERNET CONNCECTIONS > >5) WERE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDED? ok, although i could not connect my pc-wireless (probably due to 54g trickery) >6) WAS IT HELPFUL TO HAVE THE iBOOKS AVAILABLE AT THE WORKSHOPS > AND FOR EMAIL ACCESS? yes >--------ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSPORTATION: > >7) DID YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH HOTEL ACCOMMODATION? quite large scale, no nice (affordable) bar for informal talks, no proper (affordable) breakfast capacity >8) WERE HOTEL CHARGES AS YOU EXPECTED? sure, since there were known at forehand; although the automatically added portage was strange (but could be removed when discussed with management) >9) DID YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH TRANSPORTATION? no >--------HOW COULD CONFERENCES BE BETTER ORGANIZED: > >10) COMMENTS? better have conferences closer to spots of interest (in/near old big city with nice diner/after-diner capacity, or in case of hawaii, closer to vulcano park --one had to hire a car and take a conference day to get there--) location for banquet was sub optimal: no facility for stand-up speakers, not intimate and no place to talk afterwards; too much focused on eating -) >--------OTHER: > >11) REMARKS conference room + beaming was quite good