• EP2009Feedback

Europython 2009 Feedback Form Results

171 Delegates completed feedback forms, here are the results of the analysis :

What was your overall impression of EuroPython 2009?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

1 delegates did not answer this question.

How well organised was the programme?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

1 delegates did not answer this question.

How good were the talks which you attended?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

4 delegates did not answer this question.

How many did you attend?

Were there times when you wanted to attend simultaneous talks?

How did you rate the Europython website overall?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

3 delegates did not answer this question.

Was it easy toregister and pay using the website?

Write your suggestions for improving the website on the back of the form.

171 people responded to this question.

Possible website integration:- closer integration between the wiki and the main site.  Asking for volunteers at the conference to update the wiki for events in progress.

-- from form 2

More maps and plans of the venue would be good.
-- from form 8

I wouldn't change 1 thing :)
-- from form 23

more integration between main site and wiki
-- from form 34

Making the booking transparent to the user
Send a mail to confirm for booked nights
-- from form 41

wikis (easily accessible)
-- from form 48

Better linking and organisation on wiki
-- from form 69

Website
- Maybe make the site more cohesive with things like twitter, flicker & vstream?
(Up for helping for 2010)

Venue
- Aircon in smaller rooms
- Wifi? :)

-- from form 70

* Blown away by keynote speakers.
* Some excellent talks given.
* Personally prefer more conceptual talks like FilterPype, GIL isn't evil, etc but sure there are plenty that also love applications-of-python talks.

Great 3 Days!
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-- from form 71

clearer structured
-- from form 73

Better layout.
-- from form 77

Wiki is good.  Need to encourage participation from attendees.
-- from form 81

When I registered for the tutorials my email address was published on a page on the website.  I didn't like this.
-- from form 87

Website: Hm, I dunno.  It was hard to navigate for some reason.  Timetable page was very good.

Single page, fits in 800x480 screen of my N810.  I miss the ability of easily downloading slides or a talk I'm looking at on the timetable.
-- from form 91

Registration using credit card in different name was by phone only. Would've been nice to do online.
-- from form 94

-- from form 99

Make the sitemap more obvious, so that it's easy to see what's there.
-- from form 100

Stop changing (remaking) it every year.  Integrate website and website letter.
-- from form 101

some information was difficult to find or not at all.
-- from form 103

* Schedule details were IMHO too much for one page, better to have separate pages per section.
* Layout and levels of detail per talk was not consistent, might make sense to go over this from time to time to clean it up a bit.
* Sponsors did not show up on the public part of the website even on the last day of the conference.

-- from form 112

* State up front that the accommodation can be booked in the same process.  (I like to book flights before accommodation and then match my accommodation bookings to my flight dates).
* Mark the stages of the booking: 1 of 6, 2 of 6, etc
-- from form 113

Export of timetable to calendars is missing (Outlook, Google calendar, ...)
-- from form 115

Easier navigation on website. have one blog on the front page, not news spread out at various places.
-- from form 121

After the conference starts, it'd be useful to change the first page to something interesting for attendees - maps, schedule for the day etc.
-- from form 135

Website could be more interactive during event, eg finding new wiki content is annoying enough that I don't bother.
-- from form 137

Sitemap
-- from form 142

Would be nice if we could use the web interface after registration to check our registration.  I tend to forget details like which days I selected, and whether I booked a hotel, and stuff like that.
-- from form 146

It was too hard to find the pages to download talk and tutorial materials.
-- from form 149

Some pages I had seen weren't directly available from the home page and I had a little trouble finding them again.  Not a serious problem.
-- from form 150

Place wiki-links on the front page.  Link talk materials external over slide shore.  Provide a wiki page for every speaker and his/her materials - guide him/her to realise him/herself.
-- from form 152

-- from form 154

Better venue map.  Session info.
-- from form 155

-Integrate all the different parts together a bit better?  Wiki/gallery/main site etc.
- Use feeds from twitter/flickr and integrate them into the site.
-- from form 157

Enable payment in Euros.
-- from form 162

Perhaps put more links to important subsections on the home page, so that information can be found easier.
-- from form 164

Daily conference timetable accessible easily from (or on) front page.
-- from form 167

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-- from form 4109

How did you rate the conference dinner overall?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

10 delegates did not answer this question.

How did you rate the food for quality and quantity?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

9 delegates did not answer this question.

Was the venue a good choice for Europython?

How good was the Internet access?

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

7 delegates did not answer this question.

Please rate your accomodation

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

17 delegates did not answer this question.

EuroPython 2009 is planned to be held in Birmingham, UK. If you have any suggestions for where future Europython conferences should be held, please tell us:

171 people responded to this question.

Germany?
-- from form 11

Central Europe. Poland?
-- from form 12

Bring back the Lunartics.
-- from form 15

Rotterdam, NL (No, just kidding)
-- from form 16

Budapest
-- from form 21

Berlin (Cheaper?)
-- from form 25

Italy
-- from form 30

Malta, greece, Sicilly
-- from form 39

Germany, Cologne
-- from form 41

Near/on outskirts of London
-- from form 42

Improve lunch situation
-- from form 43

edinburgh, scotland
-- from form 46

Glasgow!
-- from form 58

Renewal Conference Centre? Client site
-- from form 70

France
-- from form 75

Martinque :-)
-- from form 77

University? Football stadiums, McDonalds.
-- from form 79

Italy of course... Pycon Italy has a lot of supporter!
-- from form 88

Germany? Finland? A ski resort?
-- from form 89

Berlin
-- from form 90

Denmark, Ireland, France
-- from form 91

Italy
-- from form 93

Ireland, Netherlands, Germany
-- from form 102

Germany Finland
-- from form 103

Some sunny place :-)
-- from form 111

Berlin, because it might be cheaper and is easier to reach.
-- from form 112

Say Crete, anywhere in southern Europe, on the Mediterranean.
-- from form 113

Cologne, Germany
-- from form 115

Barcelona
-- from form 122

I'll mail anything that springs to mind
-- from form 132

Italy
-- from form 133

London
-- from form 136

Good transport to city and venue
-- from form 138

Poznon, Poland
-- from form 139

Poznan, Poland
-- from form 140

Cologne, Germany
-- from form 152

Cologne
-- from form 154

Maybe the Italians want to upgrade Python Italy to EuroPython for 2 years.
-- from form 160

Outside of UK/Switzerland/Germany/Luxembourg
-- from form 163

Aberdeen, Scotland.
-- from form 165

Somewhere with a bigger beach and possibly a shoreline.
-- from form 167

copenhagen
-- from form 171

sydney

-- from form 4109

Gaining knowledge of Python and related topics

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

1 delegates did not answer this question.

Making useful contacts with other people

A score of 1 means poor, and 5 means excellent.

1 delegates did not answer this question.

What Europython mailing list would you like to join?

What best describes your interest in Python?

Comment from "What best describes your interest in Python?"

171 people responded to this question.

Interested in integrating Python with other platforms, but they were at few same time.
-- from form 13

Open source fanatic
-- from form 15

I work in education - Public sector
-- from form 18

best: guest speakers
worst: tutorials
-- from form 39

hey it's all good
except for technology let down with Guido... and no proper questions for asking
-- from form 47

worst: brain overload
best: brain overload
-- from form 49

Work and free software
-- from form 57

Django
-- from form 70

scientist
-- from form 73

Work for academic institution within a plone/zope framework.
-- from form 95

Academic Python programmer
-- from form 100

private python programmer, at the moment rather private, looking for commercial projects I have commercial commercial python experience
-- from form 103

programming laug scientist
-- from form 104

commercial python programmer
-- from form 105

commercial programmer
-- from form 106

commercial programmer
-- from form 107

looking to move commercial
-- from form 108

Best foundation class, keynotes.
Worst temperature
-- from form 141

Scientific data management
-- from form 152

Sometimes commercial python programmer
-- from form 159

and starting to use commercially.
-- from form 164

Sometimes commercial Python programmer.
-- from form 167

commercial python programmer
-- from form 4109

Tell us what was best and what was worst about the conference

171 people responded to this question.

Worst: technicial difficulties
-- from form 1

Great speakers.  The Cory Doctorow keynote was fantastic.
-- from form 2

Keynote by Cory Doctorow was really good.  Keynote by Guidd not so much :)
-- from form 3

Venue is good and good speakers.  Venue is getting crowded.  Toilets and catering at the limit.
-- from form 4

Best: meeting so many friendly geeks and some people I've known and looked forward to meet.  Worst: when the vending machine ate my money and broke down.  Wednesday coffee was missing for at least a couple of hours.
-- from form 5

Worst: internet access from CBC place for Geoff's tutorial and lack of handouts also lack of flipchart and pen in my talk!  Best: Bruce Eckel keynote and metaprogramming talk.  Clean code challenge.
-- from form 7

Worst: sleeping guide telecon.  We could well do without Guido if he did not bother to come.
-- from form 8

Keynotes, lightning talks.
-- from form 9

Best part: alternative VM talks, Cory Doctorow
Worst Part: DSL for functional programming talk, WiFi
-- from form 12

+ Lots of interesting and clever people
- To damn hot!
-- from form 15

Worst: The monotonic voice of Hoare was a severe disappointment
Best: The enthusiasm of pretty much everybody else
-- from form 16

Worst: 2nd day of tutorials
Best: General organisation
-- from form 17

Venue bit cramped. Vegetarian food at dinner 10 minutes after carnivore
-- from form 18

Positive: community-driven (rather than vendor-driven), food, hotel
Negative: Heat wave made lack of A/C painfully obvious
-- from form 19

Pyjamas + Bruce Eckels talks
-- from form 21

Worst: Spamming mailing-list
Best: City is good
-- from form 22

Worst: Wifi :) cutting out constantly and food :(
Best: Python :)
-- from form 23

Best - Test-o-matic talk  / Bruce Eckel (joint)
Worst - Heat in LR1 / Flakey wireless (joint)
-- from form 24

Best: more English speaking people (obviously)
Worst: conference space
-- from form 25

Worst: Seating @ lunch
Best: The food @ lunch
-- from form 26

A lot of presenters didn't have an interesting presentation. Or talked about their project instead of the subjet of their talk.
-- from form 27

Worst: Hard to enter and exit rooms without walking by the speaker, intermitant network access, HOT
Best: May things in easy walking distance (unlike PyCon), seeing friends.
-- from form 28

Best: Food, Contacts, nice and interesting people, cool talks, dinner
Worst: Nothing
-- from form 29

Good logistics, great helpers. 
Too long days (Too may talks), too may people for the premises, not enough oxygen because of that, food not very good.
-- from form 30

the people are the best asset
trying to follow talks with a hangover is the worst
-- from form 34

links from the timetable to talk abstracts (ff 2, windows xp) were directed to wrong places. Photos of speakers-good idea
-- from form 35

Lack of air conditioning an issue, some rooms too small
great ale :)
-- from form 36

Choose a _nicer_ place to host it, a Mediterranean country
-- from form 39

worst: Guido's lack of talk
-- from form 40

bad: wifi was a problem, sitting on floors for a sprint
good: well chosen talks
-- from form 41

Good food
Bad internet/tech infrastructure
-- from form 42

good: quality of some talks, birmingham, friendly english people
bad: Climate situation in some lecture rooms. Lunch situation, Bletchley park presentation, Skype "experiment" with Guido
-- from form 43

Poor internet connection
Inadequate seating outside sessions, esp lunch
Poor signing at registration - disorganised
-- from form 44

worst: web connection, irrelevant keynotes (save bletchley and piracy is normal)
best: lightning talks
-- from form 45

best: talks and people
worst: too hot!
-- from form 46

I expect it's very difficult, but avoid putting on all the best talks at once.. maybe pre-select talks then allocate them using selections
-- from form 47

worst: wifi in main conference hall
best: open talks
-- from form 48

best was the people and vibe, worst was the coffee
-- from form 50

good: bruce eckel, lightning talks, testing track
bad: lunch organisation (where to sit?), wlan problems
-- from form 53

excellent: Holger Krekel pg py.test and py.expect, event organisers
very poor: Pyjamas tutorial
-- from form 54

Audio video tech amateur, inconsistent. Internet (wifi) poor. Lightning talks, Doctorow keynote excellent. 

-- from form 55

Worst - Food queue 
Best - Socialising
-- from form 56

Best: Talking to people / Simon Willison's talk
Worst: Using a billing address for other purposes
-- from form 57

Best: Wealth of experience
Worst: Not enough for newbies
-- from form 58

Best: Hostesses (Pleasant), warmth of organisers, Belly dancing Saturday!
Worst: Internet connection, BDFL talk crash
-- from form 59

Best: seamless organisation, top rank keynotes and sense of welcome, from the community; to leave feeling inspired, energised and better connected.
Worst: sexist assumptions and language used in partner programme - though PP a great idea still some rooms too hot and problems hearing / seeing speakers and slides.
-- from form 61

Program book was excellent - well presented, easy to use, and very useful.
-- from form 63

Best: Great talks, great crowd.
WORST: Terrible wireless, hard to get water.
-- from form 67

Excellent keynotes, loved the lighting talks
-- from form 68

Cory and the guardian guys did great dynamic talks
wifi was buggy :)
-- from form 70

Best: being around like-minded people
Worst: hot rooms (eg. Lecture Room 1)

-- from form 72

Enjoyed it very much, thanks!

-- from form 73

Some rooms a bit hot, lunch a bit long (big queue on first day)
-- from form 74

Best - English beers and many talks
Worst - English food / tutorial organisation
-- from form 75

The people (Best)

-- from form 76

Poor: Fiber less food, poor internet access, poor internet access, little air in lecture room and
Good: the rest
-- from form 77

The people are the best.  Lunch organization the worst.
-- from form 78

Food was not great at the conference.
-- from form 79

Venue - rooms were fine, but no really enough corridor space or space for open space.  Will be a problem next year if attendance increases.
Wifi - hard to get this right, but not too bad this year.  Didn't seem to work in recital hall.
-- from form 80

Wifi is very slow
Scheduling clash (all good talks were scheduled together)
-- from form 81

All great, thanks!
-- from form 82

Best - talks
Worst - wifi

-- from form 84

Best - keynotes, lightning talks.  
Worst - internet access, room temperature, WCs
-- from form 85

Programme had many very interesting talks.  Cost was affordable.  Good programme book - very useful!  Lots of friendly people attended.  Organisers did an excellent job.

No place to eat lunch, generally not enough space to hang out (but venue otherwise excellent).
-- from form 87

Keynotes were excellent - esp. the novelist Cory.  

Temperature was too hot and sticky when small rooms got crowded.
-- from form 89

Worst - lack of physical space and oxygen
Best - good talks, meeting people
-- from form 91

The only bad thing about the conference was the first 40 minutes, during which sexist language was used, to the horror of myself and the people around me.  Thankfully there was no evidence of this attitude during the rest of the conf.

It is not acceptable to assume that all Python programmers are heterosexual men, and even if that was true, it still isn't acceptable to portray women as shopping-obsessed parasites with have no place at our events.  This is not ok.

Recent Ruby and Actionscript conferences have of course been worse, but Python has always been better than that. It would be sad to sacrifice our approachability for a few cheap laughs at the opening plenary.
-- from form 92

Best: talks people
Most: connection
-- from form 93

Worst - network
Best - meeting interesting people
-- from form 94

Best - finding out more about Python, uses, implementations etc.  
Worst - venue rooms were on the whole too small to accommodate numbers of people.  Lunch was poorly organized - queues too long and no where to sit and eat.
-- from form 95

Worst - lunch no place to sit and eat.
Best - the community.
-- from form 96

Keynote speakers - the best.

The worst - more keynote (famous) speakers
-- from form 97

Good - meeting people and talks.
Bad - lunch queue, simultaneous talks, no alphabetic index for abstracts.
-- from form 100

Lunch was annoying.  Too many people claimed too little oxygen/fresh air/space/programme too tight/the Guido thing was horrible.
-- from form 101

Best - making contacts.
Worst - probably the amount of space in the main hall - quite packed.
-- from form 102

best opportunity to  meet lots of friendly python people

worst toilets were too few sometimes broken and out of paper
-- from form 103

best the vegan food option

the venue was a tomb, no windows too aggressive ac
-- from form 104

best diversity of talks

worst, hotel registration mixup plus the heat
-- from form 105

best community  great keynotes

worst recreating web page every year no crowd source publicity
-- from form 106

Etap was a long walk
was quite warm in some rooms
-- from form 107

besr, many and varied talks, good atmosphere

worst wifi
-- from form 108

Pretty good keynotes +
Crowded rooms -
-- from form 111

Best: great atmosphere.
Worst: queue at lunch on Tuesday
-- from form 112

Best: Birmingham airport is quickly and easily reached by train from central Birmingham.  Cory Doctorow.   Worst: Patch AC in the venue and patchy wireless.  Lunch food.
-- from form 113

Diversity
-- from form 114

The venue was too small for that many people but the location in the center of Birmingham is great.
-- from form 115

Best: well organised, mostly on time, clear information.
Worst: lack of lunchtime seating
-- from form 117

Best: Psyco talk and lots of good keynotes.  
Worst: Sound problems and problems with VOIP for Guado
-- from form 118

Very friendly people.  Most of the talk presenters are very very good.
-- from form 120

Not so good speakers, but Cory Doctorow is awesome
-- from form 121

When it rained was the worst
Keynotes very interesting and good
-- from form 122

Worst: Wireless in main room
Best: Atmosphere
-- from form 123

Best: Overall organization
Worst: too fully packed in every respect
-- from form 124

V. interesting talks (good)
Corridors too crowded (bad)
-- from form 125

Venue was a bit cramped. "Early" starts were a bit challenging
-- from form 127

Theatres very nice, common areas not so good.
-- from form 128

Choice of sessions
-- from form 129

Worst: wifi
Best: Booklet
-- from form 130

Too much interesting stuff at one, one more day would solve that
-- from form 132

The venue place should have more places to meet and sit. Good key notes.
-- from form 133

Best: Telco with Guido
Worst: Start of tutorials on Sunday morning, morning was baaaad.
-- from form 134

Best: people and opportunities
Worst: Wireless and air conditioning
-- from form 135

Best: Meeting people
Worst: Food, wifi
-- from form 136

Hot hot hot
-- from form 137

Best: having many Pythonistas together.  Worst: the Guido event!
-- from form 138

Best: testing track of talks.  
Worst: network.
-- from form 139

Worst - internet connection
Best - organisation
-- from form 140

Worst - stuffy room.  
Best - keynote speakers
-- from form 142

Lighting was a disaster.
Beer +++. The location in the centre of the city was very good. There was nowhere to be able to enjoy the good weather.
-- from form 143

Keynote and talks best, facilities could be better to allow more gatherings.
-- from form 144

Collections of lots of interesting people to talk to.  Organisation of the event was v. good.  Great atmosphere.  Worst - wireless access was poor.
-- from form 145

Best: 3 outstanding keynotes.  
Worst: lunch arrangements.
-- from form 146

Best: nice, interesting talks
Worst: nothing
-- from form 147

Excellent spirit and motivation of speakers.
Worst: ventilation of part of the teaching rooms, space too tight.
-- from form 148

Worst: no network and no handouts in the CBSO for my tutorial.
Best: making good contacts and recruiting people.
-- from form 149

No coffee several times when I expected it.
-- from form 150

Great food.  For me it was too intensive.  Maybe should have shortest days.  Need stronger AC and airing - soom rooms made me melt and choice.
-- from form 151

Best: People! Real community feeling, openess, diversity of contributions. 
Worst: Sko, "hate" of other programming languages.  Hate walks blind!  Python wouldn't be what it is without other languages and what can be learnt from them.
-- from form 152

Best - location and schedule.

-- from form 155

Best - great variety of interesting topics.
Worst - food ;-)  No place to sit down and eat the food.
-- from form 156

Good - great talks by Cory (modern, relevant). 
Bad - other talks were a bit mixed and off topic (a bit).  Some talks were full! (Google appengive) - room too small.
-- from form 157

Best: talks
Worst: Internet
-- from form 158

+ cool people.  reasonable food/drinking
+ People need to know better when to be where, eg spints, dinner etc
- no speake for pre-conference sprints, not sitting places for meals
-- from form 159

- wireless reception in ABH
- too many parallel / interesting talks on Tuesday - not on other days
+ Bletchley Park info
+ Eded keynot
-- from form 160

Good lecture halls but too crowded in hallways and open spaces.  Wifi was terrible.  Loved the keynotes.
-- from form 161

I most liked the new Python related keynotes.  
The worst was the lunch and the way it was served.
-- from form 162

Best - very interesting people
Worst - Birmingham is boring.  English food is inedible.
-- from form 163

The brochure is excellent.
Tutorial registration was worst.  Open space sessions were not advertised properly.  It was not clear what was happening on which days and where.
-- from form 164

I enjoyed the keynotes.  Good to meet up with Silva cms users.  Wifi was patchy.  No windows in venue - claustrophobic.
Thank you to all the organisers.  It was my first visit to Birmingham.  Very interesting city.
-- from form 165

Excellent venue.
Laptops not working with projectors, delaying presentations.
-- from form 167

Worst - heat and food logistics.
Best - quality of talks.
-- from form 168

Best: socialising.
Worst: iffy wifi
-- from form 169

Best was Bruce's lecture.
-- from form 170

best: The keynotes were all excellent
worst: I must say 1. the food was not great (lunch mostly, vegetarian), 2. no A/C in the hotel!!
-- from form 171

good excellent catering and keynote speakers

not so good disparate talk topics and wireless kept dying
-- from form 4109

How could we improve future Europython conferences?

171 people responded to this question.

As a sponsor I couldn't move to cope with the broken wifi in my area.
-- from form 5

More space for interaction with attendees outside lecture theatres.
-- from form 6

More workshops and open space - "clean code challenge" could have been longer than 90 minutes.  Less talks.  More discussions, panels, fishbowls, dojos etc.
-- from form 7

Better net connection, more free time, less talks, more filtering perhaps.
-- from form 8

The wireless was very flakey.  Some of the smaller rooms were too crowded.
-- from form 9

Wifi: Use few SSIDs to load balance. Print appropriate SSIDs on peoples badges. Lots of foreigners got listed as UK, fix it.
-- from form 12

Please try to schedule talks with the same idea at different times. E.g. I really wanted to go to the IronPython & Python + Java talks because I can...
-- from form 13

Audio and Video recording
-- from form 15

Reliable internet connections & VOIP software (this was an insult to the BDFL) even when everybody is in the same room.
-- from form 16

Help presenters improve quality of their talks but don't know how.
-- from form 18

Better open spaces integration
-- from form 19

Please improve food quality.
-- from form 23

Find a place with lager common area and rooms closer to each other (Vilnius was good in that respect)
-- from form 25

Try to enable presenters to give better talks.
-- from form 27

Keynotes that talk about something more interesting than raising money.
-- from form 28

More female visitors.
On the nametag, include a line for project/company to make it more easy to identify people. Also less talks at the same time
-- from form 29

More open space outside the rooms for people to communicate. Different caterer for food (especially dinner)
-- from form 30

Have themed tracks so 2 vm/django/testing tracks don't clash
-- from form 32

irc/twitter names on the badges
-- from form 34

it is hard for me to find my registration number
-- from form 35

Split lunch serving into more areas
More wifi
-- from form 36

Call for talks earlier and louder
-- from form 40

Force more people to help
-- from form 41

Better room layout - particularly chairs
chairs and tables at lunch time
-- from form 44

more openspace
-- from form 46

highlight of last three years:
Laura C Keynote 2007?
Simon W.. even blimps are interesting
raymond H... Bring him back next year
Bruce E
-- from form 47

don't know
-- from form 48

more active voluteers for web side?
-- from form 50

1. Have better wifi (ie a network that actually works reliably)
2. More flexiblity between vegetarian and carnivore lunch choices
-- from form 51

there was a lot of disposable waste, could have europython cups for coffee/tea?
something to take back home/office also.
I'd take that instead of the t-shirt!
-- from form 53

Vote for popular presentations for re-runs. I missed some good stuff.
-- from form 54

Explain / organise talk tracks into themes (technical, fluff, etc)
-- from form 55

Avoid internet drop outs, Sort out Guido skype video.
-- from form 56

It was pretty good actually
-- from form 57

Electrical Sockets all over the place
Wifi no-breaking, AC in rooms.
-- from form 59

Keep doing what you do and fix the (very few) weak points
-- from form 61

No good suggestions, I'm afraid.
-- from form 63

WATER FOUNTAIN, BETTER WIRELESS
-- from form 67

Better wireless, maybe a larger venue
-- from form 68

Maybe organise talks via stream web / core / theory
-- from form 70

Have a theme to the conference (eg. "Python 3" for the next one).

-- from form 72

Sort out Guido and Skype!
-- from form 74

Improve the tutorial organisation (registration places)
-- from form 75

Better wifi.
-- from form 77

More commercial organisations exhibiting - more goodies etc etc
-- from form 79

- more of the same :-)
-- from form 82

Allocate more time and rooms for open space, especially times when it will not conflict with talks.
-- from form 85

Not - split the tutorial into some random building miles away (Kamelia in CBSO).
Payment should not restrict you to only pay for the person named on the paypal account.  It auto completes / fills in your details from paypal - excellent - however I was trying to book for three people, 2 of which aren't myself!  A telephone call fixed this, but multiple bookings could be easier.  This is a minor point as it was excellent otherwise.
-- from form 89

Macic courses (1h Gastor lesson ie)
-- from form 90

Get more volunteers.
-- from form 91

Internet connection.
-- from form 93

Better networking, easier registration.  Overall great job though - thanks!
-- from form 94

Better venue with larger rooms/lecture theatres/halls.  As more of a "newbie" to Python and programming, would have like more aimed at beginners, esp the tutorials. The foundation tutorial was also very rushed - difficult to condense so much info into one day.
-- from form 95

More organsation, improve communication and networking, ..... perhaps workshops.
-- from form 97

Have more talks on core python, ie not just frameworks and use cases.

Intermediate tutorials (learn advanced features at the language).  
Bring back Raymond Hettinger!
-- from form 100

Fresh air - more space - more time to talk to people - better internet
-- from form 101

More choices for allergies for the conference dinner; I like meat but cannot have milk/eggs!! :)
-- from form 102

do not do everything yourself keep the web page, improve on it, host photos, slides etc on web 2.0 services, make everything an unconference
-- from form 106

more of the same
-- from form 107

Beef up the wireless access.  Offer other accommodation options on the site.  The eTap is alright but is has chemical smells in rooms and stairs and hallways.  Offer better food for lunch (or cut costs on the ticket and send us out to eat).
-- from form 113

Larger accommodation.
-- from form 114

More power plugs in all rooms!
More power plugs in all rooms!
-- from form 115

Have air-con in more rooms? :)  (Seriously though, I don't see much to improve, apart from more generic social network).
-- from form 117

Add another day - make days shorter.  Better T-shirts
-- from form 118

Choose a less hidden venue and a venue with air con in all the rooms that will be used.
-- from form 120

Add Hatters hostel to list of recommended accomodation.
-- from form 121

Host it in a country with better weather.
-- from form 122

More space for people , better internet access, more time to make contacts between the talks
-- from form 124

More info in advance what should be installed to do the tutorials
-- from form 125

Better projector management, switchable video signals/test screen especially for lightning talks
-- from form 127

More open/modern venue.
-- from form 128

Shorter lunch. More organised mini-tutorials / demos
-- from form 129

More days, less tracks. Despite 19
-- from form 132

Schedule should be available at a board/desk printout at every room. This is deep and worked for many conferences so far.
-- from form 134

Conversation topics at dinner :)
Invited speakers for popular topics - ask delegates for their interests.
-- from form 135

Better wifi, more power points.
-- from form 136

Embrace open space concept better.  Pycon did it well.
-- from form 137

Better wifi.  Make a deal with hotel for wifi for 24/7 for small extra fee of registration time.  Allow people to specify the nickname on the badge.  Some are known by their nickname than the name.  Allow for topics by badge.  No need for putting country but languages spoken would be helpful.
-- from form 138

Better network.  Less expensive country.
-- from form 139

Better internet connection, better food
-- from form 140

Give more guidance to speakers to try to ensure the talks are relevant to the audience.  Tutorials need to be followable.
-- from form 142

Reduce wifi coverage.  Put it in selected zones.  Don't organise accommodation.  Don't make the days too long.
-- from form 143

Open spaces at times when there are no talks.
-- from form 144

Wireless.  Longer event.
-- from form 145

Less heat! In all senses :-)
-- from form 146

Don't know, yet.
-- from form 147

More spaceous venue
-- from form 148

Don't auto-add everyone to a mailing list which is mostly chat - separate Europython chat list.
Don't give the impression that wireless (CBSO) will probably work if this is unknown.
-- from form 149

If it stays as good, it'll be fine.
-- from form 150

More active programming workshops (seminars, tutorials, projects).
-- from form 152

Early programme talk schedule.
-- from form 155

Larger rooms for talks if needed.  Improve the site a bit.
Venue: - I know wifi is tricky to organise, but it was a bit unreliable - any improvements would be appreciated.  The attempts at video chat with Guido were a bit pathetic.  A better organised audio chat with a mobile would've been better than a non-functional video chat!
-- from form 157

More plug sockets.  Better internet.
-- from form 158

Better preparations on the technical/staff (wifi, PA, Skype :-))
-- from form 161

Give more time between talks for small talk.
-- from form 162

More stable reliable internet connection.
-- from form 164

Windows in rooms that can be opened.
-- from form 165

Video record all presentations - be more strict about using microphones from floor.
-- from form 167

Private internet for BDFL.
-- from form 168

Improve partners programme and make it more visible.
-- from form 169

Fewer parallel talks and one more day,  and perhaps more time for lightning talks and unconferencing
-- from form 171

more core python type talks a "beginner" type stream as opposed to lots of "look at my cool new almost finished product " type thing, also more indepth/advanced bios would be nice, a lot of talks seemed to end just as they were getting to the meatier bits thanks bai

-- from form 4109