{"id":1397,"date":"2010-02-25T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:44:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:44:27","slug":"realtime-webcamp-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/realtime-webcamp-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"RealTime WebCamp reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8249891@N07\/4378982990\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ivan talking about Marketing\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4378982990_0d4f9d3a39.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can say once again that our last event, RealTime WebCampLjubljana, was a great success. We didn\u2019t run out of coffee, there was enough electricity and WiFi as well as a great mix of people and the quality of talks and discussions was astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few things that we did differently this time that had effect on the \u2018camp feeling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Smaller group<\/strong> &#8211; instead of going with 150+ we went for 50+ crowd. More intimate and it allowed for more open discussions.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Two tracks only<\/strong> &#8211; moved from 3 tracks format to 2 tracks as there was less people and we also had to optimize for the available rooms. We still managed to create a nice balance of tech vs. non-tech oriented talks.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Slovenian language<\/strong> &#8211; despite protests from our friends in Croatia, we decided to go with Slovenian as a primary language this time. My current feeling is that this made it easier for everyone involved and we should consider sticking to Slovenian for smaller camps that are not intended for international audience.<\/li>\n<li><strong> \u2018Hackish venue\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; instead of going for university or conference venue, we crashed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hekovnik.si\">Hekovnik<\/a> this time, a new hackerspace in Ljubljana. This had a totally different feeling of more \u2018ad-hoc\u2019 and less sterile environment. It seemed like people enjoyed this more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is still a question &#8211; how to encourage people to prepare more sessions and how to time the event. Going for early Saturday morning as a start (8am-ish) seems to work great for now. Regarding more sessions, I\u2019m not sure if we can expect more than 30% of attendees to run their own session, would be interested in recommendations on any literature on the topic of facilitating sessions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did I miss anything important that we should take into consideration for our next \u2018camps?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can say once again that our last event, RealTime WebCampLjubljana, was a great success. We didn\u2019t run out of coffee, there was enough electricity and WiFi as well as a great mix of people and the quality of talks and discussions was astonishing. There are a few things that we did differently this time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[93,105,876,878,879,877,880,143,824],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-barcamp","tag-ljubljana","tag-people","tag-realtime","tag-slovenian-language","tag-talk","tag-tricks","tag-webcamp","tag-webcamplj"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}