[LAU] LAC 2015 feedback

[Bruno Ruviaro]

Another comment about LAC 2015: I enjoyed a lot that concerts were short
(generally under an hour). It felt like we could better focus on and
appreciate each piece in the program, even after a long day of papers and
workshops.

I also like the idea of keeping and further improving a hack 'n roll space
in the future. One very successful example I've seen was in the Darmstadt
Festival 2012 (they called it Open Space). There were a few rooms available
for booking by anyone, through a big & highly visible wall poster with time
slots with titles and short description of proposed activity. Slots filled
up quickly, and attendees started to stop by there regularly to check out
what was going on and join a session etc.
For LAC size, I think one room is enough, and overlapping hours with some
of the official schedule is OK in my view.
The open tables in the hallway, always work as an even more informal
hacking & sharing space, and I saw great things happening there.
Independently of any Hack n Roll room, that kind of casual open table space
is a vital structure to connect people. Being in the corridor, in plain
sight, and near the coffee, is what made it work so well.

Congrats and thanks to Albert and team for all the hard work this year!

Bruno

On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Carlos sanchiavedraz <csanchezgs at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 2015-04-15 12:42 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Ceccolini <
> gianfranco at portalmod.com.br
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gianfranco at portalmod.com.br');>>:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Hope that all attendees had a safe return.
>>
>> My impressions of the LAC 2015 we all positive and I can only thank the
>> organization for putting such a big effort in organizing such a good event.
>>
>> I have some some suggestions and considerations regarding the Hack’n Roll
>> space.
>>
>> Since it was a first time of such a place I reckon there’s a lot of
>> optimizations to be done.
>>
>> Overall I think that the experience of the Hack n’ Roll was well worth. I
>> saw many people jamming and I also had the opportunity to play some chops
>> (as Gerald noted :-).
>>
>> Some points for maintaining or for improvement:
>>
>>  - Location: the room was placed in a very convenient spot. Not on the
>> way but at the same time, close enough. The staircase provided what I think
>> to be a nice separation. From the hallway one could here the music going on
>> without being bothered by it.
>>
>> - Opening hours: this I believe was the main drawback. I think that the
>> Hack n’ Roll should run “off hours” (lunch time and post presentations). It
>> could even be closed during the “work hours”. This would make the space
>> much more useful and would also prevent competition in attendance to the
>> other events. I understand that this leads to practical issues, specially
>> regarding man power, but I really think it is something to be thought of.
>>
>> Also, I think it would be great if the space was opened on Sunday so that
>> those that do not want to go on the field trip can spend the sunday there
>> putting all the post-LAC ideas into practice :-)
>>
>> - Booking; this is tricky. Whereas the space was free to “come and play”
>> I think that an “on demand booking system” would be handy. It could be a
>> simple sheet of paper attached to the front door with the time slots
>> division where people would fill in. Having a totally free using space is
>> cool in a way, but one needs to adapt to whatever and whoever is at the
>> place. This somehow prevents the organization of small planned sessions.
>>
>> - Sound equipment: this is a thing that I believe did not get clear on
>> the emails prior to the event. I luckily took my stage bag with some guitar
>> leads and those were very useful, but before the event I thought those
>> would be available and almost did not took mine.
>>
>> I think the space should have: Mixer + PA + Loudspeakers (+ a MIDI
>> keyboard, maybe).  The rest should all be brought by participants and this
>> should be clear from the start.
>>
>> - General equipment: the infrastructure of the room was great. More AC
>> plugs that one would ever need and the desks proved also very handy. More
>> than one time I saw people there just sitting and coding anything with
>> actually participating in a jam. I consider this to be very nice.
>>
>>
>> Guess that’s it. I had a great time at the event and would surely like to
>> attend again.
>>
>> One again I’d like to thank the organization for doing such a great job.
>>
>> Hope to see everyone next year
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gianfranco
>> The MOD Team
>>
>>
>>
>> > Em 15/04/2015, à(s) 00:35, Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi at gmx.de
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gerald.mwangi at gmx.de');>> escreveu:
>> >
>> > Hi, I'd also like to thank the organisers of the LAC2015
>> > for the great work. IMO the informal nature of it was great, and the
>> > Hack n Roll room was there to so that people could jam with others (I
>> > jammed the hell out with the MOD Team, thanks guys). It was great that
>> > there were no restrictions/schedules/plans for that room.
>> > Regards
>> > Gerald, JimsonDrift
>> >
>> > On 14.04.2015 21:40, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> >> Just to add my 2d (old UK money)
>> >>
>> >> I thoroughly enjoyed this year's LAC. Many thanks to all those working
>> behind
>> >> the scenes.
>> >>
>> >> Now I've got work to do with all the fresh ideas buzzing round in my
>> head!
>> >>
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>
> Hello dear all LAUers.
>
> After so many years subscribed to this list I finally managed to go to
> this 13th LAC (and it seems 13 is a great number and brought us "good LAC"
> ;) ).
>
> Despite taking several planes and waiting for hours to get there, I can
> only be grateful in many ways and to many people:
>
> - to the organization, for all the effort and uncountless hours of
> preparation, and being able to manage getting it all done successfully
> despite all the issues that may have happened
>
> - to all of you for being not only the creators, coders, testers, users,
> etc of such a great stuff whether it's software, hardware or content, but
> also for being amazing people to have a tech chat, brainstorm (serious or
> not :) ) or laugh having some beer/wine (no, not the emulator ;) ).
>
> So... Thanks to all and such a pleasure to know you face to face at last.
>
> Having said that, and to add my two cents regarding possible improvements
> for future LACs, these are a few I've talked with some of you (some of them
> already pointed on previous mails):
>
> - some more combo acoustic (or electronics) instruments, such as guitar,
> bass, drums, percussion, and also mic(s) + PA for singing and jamming "the
> old way" and mix it with the already present digital/electro stuff. I would
> loved to provide some but travelling with such stuff is complicated these
> days.
>
> - at some conferences I could barely hear the speaker (or his voice was
> distorted), or he couldn't get the sound out of his laptop, so one person
> who knows the equipment to help would be nice
>
> Kindest regards.
>
> P.S.1: It would be nice to have some LAC in Spain, although I talked about
> this with some of you and the reality is that is hard and difficult for
> many reasons. Anyway, it would be great.
>
> P.S.2: Frank, please don't take P.S.1 so serious to consider me as some
> next organizer ;) (at least not for the moment, let's see)
>
> --
>
> C. sanchiavedraZ:
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