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I would appreciate Feedback on rotations/demonstrations that were crowded.
The demonstrator, the title/subject, were all seats filled, were people standing because all seats were taken?
It will help us gauge the popularity of subjects and demonstrators for future symposiums.
We try to guess the crowds for demos and get them into properly sized rooms. We had at least two bad decisions.
Jason Breach should have been in a larger room
Thursday night Special Event with the Moulthrops should have been in the opening ceremonies space.
Room Seating ranged from 85 to 237 with a total of 2267 demo seats in Atlanta.
With our attendance this means roughly 900 empty seats every rotation. .
We attempt to put the more popular demos in large rooms and those that are targeted to a small audience in the smaller rooms.
rooms seating 237 - we expect empty seats
Rooms seating less than a 100 - we expect some overcrowding.
We made a mistake with the Thursday night Moulthroup talk. We considered putting it in the opening ceremony's space but based on past disappointing turnouts for Thursday night talks, we didn't want them on the big stage with an audience of 100. As it was we got extra chairs and sat about 260. Unfortunately there were 20-30 people outside the room that could not be seated. Made the wrong decision.
The demonstrator, the title/subject, were all seats filled, were people standing because all seats were taken?
It will help us gauge the popularity of subjects and demonstrators for future symposiums.
We try to guess the crowds for demos and get them into properly sized rooms. We had at least two bad decisions.
Jason Breach should have been in a larger room
Thursday night Special Event with the Moulthrops should have been in the opening ceremonies space.
Room Seating ranged from 85 to 237 with a total of 2267 demo seats in Atlanta.
With our attendance this means roughly 900 empty seats every rotation. .
We attempt to put the more popular demos in large rooms and those that are targeted to a small audience in the smaller rooms.
rooms seating 237 - we expect empty seats
Rooms seating less than a 100 - we expect some overcrowding.
We made a mistake with the Thursday night Moulthroup talk. We considered putting it in the opening ceremony's space but based on past disappointing turnouts for Thursday night talks, we didn't want them on the big stage with an audience of 100. As it was we got extra chairs and sat about 260. Unfortunately there were 20-30 people outside the room that could not be seated. Made the wrong decision.
